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This article is about the community in Hants County. For the community in Richmond County, see L’Ardoise.

Ardoise (formerly Ardoise Hill) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in West Hants Regional Municipality in Hants County.[1] Its name is the French word for slate, and is considered descriptive of the geology of the area.[2]

Reverend George Gillmore was given a land grant of 500 acres in Ardoise in 1786, but found the rocky landscape challenging to cultivate and moved away in 1791. A union meeting house was erected in Ardoise in 1830, and remained standing until at least 1967. A schoolhouse was erected in Ardoise before 1825, condemned in 1869, and a new schoolhouse erected in 1871.[2]

Ardoise had a small gold mining industry from 1887 to 1904.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e “Ardoise”. Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
  2. ^ a b Fergusson, C. Bruce (1967). Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia. Halifax, N.S.: Public Archives of Nova Scotia. p. 16. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  3. ^ “Ardoise”. Not Your Grandfather’s Mining Industry. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2025.