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Hillsborough River Eco-Centre

The Fine Woods...

A dense and abundant forest once covered much of the Hillsborough watershed. Early French descriptions called this the land of "beaux bois", or fine woods. It was a lush environment, filled with beech, sugar maple and yellow birch interspersed with white pine, red oak and Eastern Hemlock.

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The Bounty of Marshes...

The salt marshes were an inviting environment to the early settlers of the Hillsborough, providing a means to subsist until further work could be done to clear the uplands. The inhabitants used the marshes as a source of forage for farm animals, and built drainage ditches to increase their acreage

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Tying the Island Together...

The Hillsborough River was once the major transportation corridor between the Island's north and south shores.

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Shipbuilding...

Shipbuilding transformed the economy and the environment of the Hillsborough River watershed in the mid 1800's

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Transportation over Time...

The emergence of trains and roads brought an end to the use of the river as the key transport corridor.

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