North River, Nova Scotia

North River is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located within Colchester County, and is close to Truro, Nova Scotia. It was settled in the 1760s as a slice of what was then The Onslow Township, which was one of the many townships set up by the British Government in Halifax, Nova Scotia to encourage planters to immigrate to Nova Scotia to work on the farmland. The Onslow Township was settled by mostly New England Planters from the areas around Boston, Massachusetts, and from New Hampshire. One of most common of the occupations of these immigrants before their immigration was farming.