Minudie

Minudie is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cumberland County about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from River Hebert.

Once a thriving town with a population peaking about 1870 at more than 600 people, Minudie today still has three churches but a population of just 20. Industries included shipbuilding, farming, lumbering and the manufacture of grindstones. It was settled, dyked, and farmed by Acadians in the eighteenth century.^[1] After the expulsion, the lands were granted to J.F.W. DesBarres, who leased it to displaced Acadians and others who farmed the marshlands, and cut grindstones along the shore.^[2] Amos Seaman (1788–1864), the self-appointed "Grindstone King", assumed control of the grindstone quarries there about 1826 and was also largely responsible for the rest of the industries there as well.^[3]

References

^ N.E.S. Griffiths, The Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784 (Kingston and Montreal, 1992), 65.
^ G.N.D Evans, Uncommon Obdurate: The Several Public Careers of J.F.W. DesBarres (Salem MA, 1969).
^ Mike Parker, Buried in the Woods: Sawmill Ghost Towns of Nova Scotia, Pottersfield Press, 2010, pp. 46=59