Frasers Mills (Scottish Gaelic: Muileann an Frisealaich) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County on Nova Scotia Route 316.[1]
In 1828 a wooden dam was built across the South River to power a sawmill and later a grist mill. In 1928 the federal government built a replacement concrete dam to provide water for their new fish hatchery which was taken over by the provincial government in 1982. Over a million Brook, Brown and Rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon are raised here annually to stock the province's lakes and rivers; these fish may be observed in the 37 ponds.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ "Frasers Mills". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ Fergusson, C. Bruce (1967). Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia. Halifax, NS: Public Archives of Nova Scotia. p. 220. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ "Frasers Mills Fish Hatchery" (PDF). Nova Scotia Fisheries and Aquaculture. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
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