Wellington
By: Michelle Eddy

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Wellington (Y) : Named after the English Lord and General, so famous early in the nineteenth century.

*from the book "Place Names of Atlantic Canada" Ref 917.16 HAM in the Western Counties Regional Library*


 
Hello my name is Michelle Eddy and I've been living in Wellington for almost two years. As far as I know there are a few businesses  such as sheep farming, cattle farming, and a garage. It is a small community just outside of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Wellington has it's own hall.

There are a few roads that lead to and from ,Wellington such as the Rodney road and the McCormick road. Wellington isn't a very big place but it has quite a few people.

On a normal day, four Yarmouth school buses pass through Wellington, three are elementary/ Maple Grove and the last bus is for the high school. 

The scenery in Wellington is very beautiful in all of the seasons. In the spring everything
is turning green and you can hear all the birds and animals, in the summer there is lots of
children playing  along with a lot of  lupines and you can see a lot of tourists passing
through because of the highway that Wellington is on. The fall is very pretty because of
all the trees that are turning different colors and the air is crisp. The winter is truly the
best because the snow covers the ground and trees making everything white. Sometimes
in the winter the snow drifts get really high and the wind blows the snow around in
circles.

Some of the businesses  in Wellington include the Antique Car place where people with
antique cars gather information for things like parades and benefits. There are three or
four different farms and farmers (obviously). Take my neighbor for example he raises
sheep for wool and a source of food same as the cattle farm just down the road. F.H Bain
is another business that is in the area. It specializes in repairing and building tractors,
jeeps and transport trucks. Many people in the area work in the trucking industry and
many own there own truck.

I live right next door to a sheep farm where they sell wool and meat. Lots of tourists stop
to take pictures in the summer and fall and some groups like Beavers or Guides gets tours
of the farm. In the winter time he sends most of his sheep to an island off the French
shore so they can be warmer in a barn. He has over three hundred sheep and about three
different breeds. Some are black, white and some have horns. He also has a donkey and a
few trained sheep dogs along with dog that is trained to keep out coyotes out of the fields.

Wellington is also on the Evangeline trail, which is an important tourist attraction for
Nova Scotia.

Wellington has great weather. Some places are windy because there is flat land and no
trees but otherwise it is mostly sunny. There is hardly any fog even if it's foggy in town. It
is warmer in Wellington than it is in town and it always smells like freshly mown grass. 

All of the elementary school children go to the new school Meadow fields but that just
started this year because they use to go to Hebron. All the teenagers either go to
Yarmouth high school or Maple grove junior high. At the end of this page there will be
pictures of Wellington.