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Origin of the name "Bridgetown"

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While researching the town-twinnings of Bridgetown, Barbados, I came across this article written by the Barbadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It says that Bridgetown (Nova Scotia) was named after Bridgetown (Barbados) by a former Barbadian. But this PDF on the official website of Bridgetown (Nova Scotia) indicates it was named so after its own bridge. Can anyone shed some light on this? The web is not very helpful here and Germany is not exactly full of books about tiny towns in Canada. Thanks --Regani.de (talk) 13:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm originally from Bridgetown Nova Scotia and the story that I heard is that the town was originally called Hick's Ferry because a guy named Hick had a ferry there. One day a bridge was built and it no longer made sense to call it Hick's ferry and it was remained Bridgetown. So my though is that the those sleazily Barbadians are up to their old tricks, pandering lies to unsuspecting Germans.

As a town resident I can probably only add to the confusion because both stories have elements of truth. About 1825, according to a number of historians, the residents of Bridgetown gathered to decide on a name for the Town. The Town had been established in 1821 (there were prior settlers) by John Crosskill, who laid out the central portion of the Town. John Crosskill had been attached to the British Navy and spent some happy years in Bridgetown, Barbados. One version of the naming has it that the townsfolk (not Crosskill) named the Town Bridgetown as a way to honour him, by reminding him of happy days in the past. The town historian, Elizabeth Coward, follows this theory. The other, that the town was more prosaically named for the bridge, was followed by Muriel Taylor, who wrote a history that was one of Mrs. Coward's sources. Taylor (later Mrs. Merriam) used work by Dr. Armstrong, some of which appears in the 1921 Halifax Chronicle celebrating the Town's centennial. Since Joseph Howe, in his Rambles (c. 1830) refers to the Town as "The Bridge", there is external support for this theory. Since it was a group decision, in all probability some of those supporting the name wanted to name the Town after Bridgetown Barbados, and others wanted to name it after the bridge, and both could be satisfied with the name Bridgetown.--Jrcameron (talk) 01:54, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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