Welsford is a small farming community in the Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 province of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

, located in Kings County

Kings County, Nova Scotia

Kings County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.Kings County is located in central Nova Scotia on the shore of the Bay of Fundy with its northeastern part also forming the western shore of the Minas Basin....

. It is one of two communities in Nova Scotia named after Augustus Frederick Welsford, a Nova Scotian war hero in the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

, the other being Welsford, Pictou County. Nestled at the base of Nova Scotia's North Mountain

North Mountain (Nova Scotia)

North Mountain is a narrow southwest-northeast trending volcanic mountain range on the mainland portion of southwestern Nova Scotia, stretching from Brier Island to Cape Split...

, Welsford stretches along Route 221

Nova Scotia Route 221

Route 221 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.It is located in Kings County and Annapolis County in the Annapolis Valley and connects Kingsport to Spa Springs....

. Welsford is the birth place of the famous entrepreneur Alfred Fuller

Alfred Fuller

Alfred Carl Fuller was a Canadian-born American businessman. He was the original "Fuller Brush Man."...

, the "Fuller Brush Man".