Fairbanks, Samuel Prescott - lawyer, politician, and civil servant Biography
FAIRS
Farmer’s Market - The public market is located in the parking lot overlooking the Mersey River in Liverpool. A stall can be rented for $7 per day or $15 per week. LINK: Information For Vendors on Region Of Queens website
FARMING FESTIVALS
Feswick Productions is owned by Queens County music producer Tim Feswick, and located in Broad River. He does moth production and engineering, producing CDs within six weeks, from the time an artist arrives in the studion to the final version.
Fire Departments North Queens Fire Association serves an area of about 425 square miles in North Queens and the southern part of Annapolis County. The area has about 2,300 permanent residents and about the same number of summer residents. The fire hall was built in 1974 when they had two trucks. In 2009, the fire service had five vehicles, when they were looking at building a new hall of 19,000 quare feet with an auditorium to seat 250 persons, and separate parking for firefighters and the community hall. Anticipated cost was $3.1 million.
Fires Forest Fire Of 1955 - White Point To Western Head. Click herefor stories and pictures. Forest Fire of 2006 in Southwest Port Mouton. Click here.
Fisheries & Oceans - Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Aids to Navigation Program carries out the following activities: - designs, installs, maintains, monitors and reviews marine aids to navigation (e.g. fixed aids, lighthouses, beacons, buoys and radionavigation systems, such as the Loran-C and the Differential Global Positioning System) - provides expertise on the design and operation of private aids to navigation - provides navigation safety information through the Notice to Mariners (NOTMAR), which gives on-line access to a list of lights, buoys and fog signals as well as their position and coordinates Aids to Navigation Program Halifax Marine Communications and Traffic Services Centre 10 Hudson Way Dartmouth, NS B2Y 3Z8 Tel.: 902-426-3151 (Dartmouth) 8 am - 4 pm (collect) Fax: 902-426-1357 (Dartmouth) E-mail: atn-aln@dfo-mpo.gc.ca (National) The emergency telephone number is used to report outages, failures and off position of aids to navigation. Telephone: 1-800-686-8676 24/7 (emergency number)
Food Bank Queens County Food Bank is always in need of the following items, which are included in every food box that is prepared: Cereal Canned vegetables Macaroni or spaghetti Soup of any kind Canned baked beans Canned milk Kraft dinner Canned tuna, turkey or ham flakes Peanut butter Canned fruit (if available) Juice (if available) Other non-perishable items Donations can be dropped off at the food bank located in the basement of the old Mount Pleasant School, the donations boxes at Superstore and Sobeys, or at your church if it accepts donations.
Frelick, James Andrew, of Western Head (1870-1955) served for 50 consecutive years, from 1899 to 1949, on Queens County Municipal Council, representing District 1. The Advance of February 21, 1946 published the following: “James Frelick Makes Record - When councillor James Frelick of Western Head took his seat at the council table this week at the annual meeting of the Queens County Council, he made a record which will no doubt go down in history. For 48 years, Mr. Frelick has represented District No. 1 continuously, and, believe it or not, during those 48 years, he has never even missed one session of this executive body. We defy comparison anywhere in the Dominion of Canada”
