Fort Edward
Also known as West Point Blockhouse
67 Fort Edward Street, Windsor
About Fort Edward
National Historic Site status goes to 2 places in Windsor, Fort Edward among them. The register gives 1750–1751 for Fort Edward. One neighbour on the registers lies within 400 m.
Fort Edward NAtional Historic Site of Canada comprises a wooden blockhouse as well as remnants of buildings and landscape features from an 18th century fortification on the outskirts of Windsor Nova Scotia where the St. Croix River joins Pesaquid Lake. The official recognition refers to the only surviving structure from the fort, the blockhouse.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Fort Edward National Historic Site of Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada · in the register’s words, not edited
National Historic Site status comes on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
2 old views of Fort Edward
Made before 1950, from 1753 to 1910: public domain or CC0. Tap one to see it full screen.
c. 1753
c. 1910From Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server; some are drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit is in the viewer.
Make it a walk: 2 historic places in about 5 minutes
Windsor · about 200 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Fort EdwardStart here
- 2BlockhouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 200 m on
1 within 300 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Questions about Fort Edward
Can you visit Fort Edward?
As a museum it usually opens to the public; its operator sets the hours.
Is Fort Edward protected?
National Historic Site status commemorates; legal protection, where there is any, comes from the province or municipality, or from federal ownership.
When was Fort Edward built?
Work on Fort Edward is recorded as 1750–1751.
What is Fort Edward?
Since 1920, Fort Edward has been a National Historic Site of Canada.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).