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Wallace is a beautiful village in Northern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies about 160 km. north west of Halifax, at the estuary of the Wallace River as it flows into the Northumberland Strait.
Originally, Wallace was a Mi'kmaq Native Indian summer settlement called Remsheg (Ramshack).
In 1713, French settlers, called "Acadians" moved to this area. During the sixteenth and seventeenth century this part of North America changed hands several times between the French and the British. During British ownership in 1755, the Acadians were removed from Nova Scotia and scattered among the eastern seaboard colonies of North America.
In 1784, "United Empire Loyalists", British refugees from the American Revolution, were granted land in what is now Wallace and along the Wallace River.
Massive immigration to Nova Scotia during the beginning of the nineteenth century brought many settlers from Scotland, England and Ireland.
The Scottish influence brought about the village name change in 1825. Remsheg was changed to Wallace in honour of the Scottish hero William Wallace and Nova Scotia Provincial Treasurer Michael Wallace.
With these immigrants came the skills for shipbuilding and stone quarrying.
Shipyards boomed in the village during the mid nineteenth century and eventually ended with the advent of steam powered ships at the end of the "Age of Sail".
Though the sandstone quarries went through many boom and bust cycles they still carry on today.

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Mainstreet Wallace 1910
1910
Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Wallace Village
15 June 2004
Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Present day Wallace is a tiny village with a mix of businesses including lobster fishing, farming, tourism, and small industry.

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Wallace Harbour Wharf
15 June 2004
Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Wallace Harbour. The village is on the south side of the harbour with the quarry on a small hill over looking it.