Port Maitland Cattle Pound
No. 1 Highway, Port Maitland, Nouvelle-Écosse, B0W, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
1986/07/16
Autre nom(s)
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Liens et documents
Date(s) de construction
1871/01/01 à 1871/12/31
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2006/03/30
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
The Port Maitland Cattle Pound is a small square stone wall enclosure that was built around 1871 in the village of Port Maitland, Nova Scotia, as a holding pen for stray cattle. The municipal heritage designation applies to the land and the structure.
Valeur patrimoniale
The Port Maitland Cattle Pound is valued for its association with life in a rural community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is also valued as possibly being the last standing cattle pound in Yarmouth County.
The Port Maitland Cattle Pound was built around 1871 on a small piece of land which was equally expropriated from the two abutting properties for the purpose. It is a stone wall enclosure measuring about thirty feet on each side, with an opening which was gated on the side parallel to the road. The common practice was to build the pounds next to a brook, as this one is, or abutting some other source of water for their inmates. These pounds were used to temporarily "incarcerate" stray cattle until their owners paid a fine and reclaimed them. The "usual suspects" picked up included cows, oxen, pigs, goats, sheep and some large fowl. The person whose responsibility it was to catch and pen the loose animals was called the “cattle reeve,” and the position was usually filled by appointment of Municipal Council. Most villages had a cattle reeve and pound, and both were an active and important part of village life until well into the 1900s.
Source: Municipal Heritage Property files: the Port Maitland Cattle Pound; located at 400 Main Street, Yarmouth, NS.
Éléments caractéristiques
The character-defining elements of the Port Maitland Cattle Pound include:
- location on the main road through the community;
- proximity to a brook;
- square stone wall enclosure measuring approximately 30 by 30 feet.
Reconnaissance
Juridiction
Nouvelle-Écosse
Autorité de reconnaissance
Administrations locales (N.-É.)
Loi habilitante
Heritage Property Act
Type de reconnaissance
Bien inscrit au répertoire municipal
Date de reconnaissance
1986/07/16
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
s/o
Thème - catégorie et type
- Gouverner le Canada
- La sécurité et la loi
- Économies en développement
- Labour
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
- Indéterminée (site archéologique)
- Site à découvert
Historique
- Communauté
- Espace communautaire
Architecte / Concepteur
s/o
Constructeur
s/o
Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
Municipal Heritage Property files: Joint Heritage Office, 400 Main Street, Yarmouth, NS, B5A 1G2
Réfère à une collection
Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
54MNS2209
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
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