Lower Prospect, settled in 1754 by mostly Irish and English fishermen the village of Prospect, Nova Scotia has endured 250 years of strong winds and salt spray as it sits perched along the rocky shores of the Western Shore of Halifax County. Prior to the settlement of the village by these brave souls the site was considered by sailors and fishermen as a place of refuge during storms and a good place to fish. Characterized by small islands protecting a large deep harbour Prospect has been a place of shelter for centuries.
The original inhabitants of the area were most likely the Mi'kmaq people who populated Nova Scotia prior to European settlement in the early decades of the sixteenth century. Mi'kmaq settlement in the area was probably on a seasonal basis and was primarily based around fishing in the area surrounding Prospect Bay. There was, throughout the late nineteenth century, a family of Mi'kmaq that lived and fished out of the Shad Bay/Blind Bay area. Silas Rand, Baptist minister to the native population of the Maritimes during the mid to late nineteenth century, was one of the first people to collect and document the words of the Mi'kmaq. In his dictionary of their language he provides two words that he attributes to meaning Prospect:
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