Lawrencetown is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

within Annapolis County in the

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Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

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. The town was first settled in 1760 and named after Nova Scotia governor Charles Lawrence.Bernard, B., Bishop, G., Fowler, J., et al
"Early Settlers"
(1977). Lawrencetown Consolidated. the population was 636, an increase of 23.3% over the previous five years. Lawrencetown is home to Lawrencetown Consolidated School for grades P-5, and the

Centre of Geographic Sciences The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) is located in the village of Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. History COGS traces its history to 1948 when the Nova Scotia Land Survey Institute (NSLSI) was established by Major J.A.H. Church (retired) as a tr ...

(COGS), a branch of the

Nova Scotia Community College Nova Scotia Community College, commonly referred to as NSCC, is a community college serving the province of Nova Scotia through a network of 14 campuses and three community learning centres. The college delivers over 130 programs in five academ ...

. The Annapolis Valley Exhibition has been held annually since 1927 at the Lawrencetown Exhibition Grounds and is a week long agricultural event. In 2010, Lawrencetown was nominated as one of the top 12 towns for

Kraft Hockeyville ''Kraft Hockeyville'' is an annual competition sponsored by Kraft Heinz, the National Hockey League and the NHL Players' Association in which communities compete to demonstrate their commitment to the sport of ice hockey. The winning commu ...

, representing eastern Canada in the wildcard category. On March 27, 2010, it was revealed on CBC Hockey Night In Canada that they were voted into the top five towns.

Demographics

In the

2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

conducted by Statistics Canada, Lawrencetown had a population of 636 living in 321 of its 354 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 516. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

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Village of Lawrencetown
{{Subdivisions of Nova Scotia Communities in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Villages in Nova Scotia Designated places in Nova Scotia General Service Areas in Nova Scotia