|
Greenwood is a village located in the western part of Kings County in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. ==History== Greenwood was a small hamlet south of the Dominion Atlantic Railway's Kingston Station. In 1942, the Royal Air Force established RAF Station Greenwood and built an aerodrome on nearby farmland to provide a facility for training aircrew under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The Royal Canadian Air Force took over the facility in 1944, renaming it RCAF Station Greenwood, a name it maintained until the February 1, 1968 unification of the Canadian Forces which saw the airfield and associated facilities renamed CFB Greenwood. During the 1970s–2000s, the village of Greenwood expanded in population as numerous other air force bases in eastern Canada closed and their aircraft and personnel consolidated at CFB Greenwood. Much of the housing in the heart of Greenwood is for the military families stationed in Greenwood, and have been referred to by the local populace as the "P.M.Qs", standing for Personal Military Quarters. The non-military housing for the town is located more towards the outside of it. Today, the village and base's combined population numbers approximately 4,500. The village hosts numerous services and is also the location of the Greenwood Mall, the largest shopping centre in the western part of the Annapolis Valley. In recent years, the mall has seen many stores come and go from it, and the mall has lost popularity due to the commercial boom of New Minas at the northern end of the Annapolis Valley. __NOTOC__ 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greenwood, Nova Scotia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|