30km (19mi) or so beyond Springhill the pleasantly green city of Amherst stands at the "gateway" to Nova Scotia. Amherst evolved from a former Acadian settlement founded in the 17th C beside a Micmac Indian village. When English-speaking colonists took over in 1760 it was renamed after Baron Amherst, the British general who captured Montréal in
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