Falmouth is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located along the Avon River in Hants County between …Falmouth is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located along the Avon River in Hants County between Mount Denson and Windsor. Falmouth and the surrounding area was known as Pisiquid by the Acadians. Having migrated from Port Royal, the Acadians first settled the area in the early 1680s, as the 1686 census lists a number of families on well established farms utilizing productive dyked fields. During Queen Anne's War, in response to the French Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, in the Raid on Pisiquid, Benjamin Church burned the many villages of the two parishes that made up the district to the ground and took prisoners to Boston. One of these prisoners was Acadian leader Noel Doiron. As with the other Acadian districts of the Bay of Fundy region, the Acadians of Piziquid were deported in the fall of 1755.
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