Falmouth (Nova Scotia)
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| Location in Nova Scotia | |||
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| Province : | Nova Scotia | ||
| County: | Hants County | ||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 0 ′ N , 64 ° 10 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 1179 (as of 2011) | ||
Falmouth is a place with 1213 inhabitants (2011) on the riverside of the Avon River across from Windsor in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia .
French settlers from Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal ) came to what is now Falmouth around 1685. During the Queen Anne's War , the site was destroyed in retaliation for the attack on Deerfield , Massachusetts in 1704.
Falmouth is the birthplace of George Lawrence Price , the last soldier of the British Empire to fall in World War I.
The place is exactly halfway between the Geographic North Pole and the equator .