Part of a series about Communities in 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...
Nova Scotia Incorporated Villages
Port Williams
A Progressive Community
Community Statistics
Population	723
Latitude Latitude In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a...	45°5′52″ N
Longitude Longitude Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, and denoted by the Greek letter lambda ....	64°24′34″ W
Elevation Elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....	Sea level to 14 Meters
Founded	1760
Government
Chair	Lewis Benedict
Governing Body	Port Williams Village Commission
Date Incorporated	1951
Other Information
Website	http://www.portwilliams.com/
Time zone	AST Atlantic Standard Time Zone The Atlantic Standard Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps time by subtracting four hours from either Coordinated Universal Time or Greenwich Mean Time , resulting in UTC-4 or GMT-4...
Postal Code Canadian postal code A Canadian postal code is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. Like British and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A0A 0A0, where A is a letter and 0 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters...	B0P 1T0
Telephone Exchange Telephone exchange In the field of telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls... (s)	902 Area code 902 Area code 902 is the telephone area code in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, encompassing both provinces. The 902 area code was established in 1947 for all three Maritime provinces, with Newfoundland added shortly after it joined Canada; New Brunswick, along with...  - 542
Footnotes
* According to StatCan Census Year 2001
+ Average Household Income

Port Williams is a 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...

 village 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....

, 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...

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It is located on the north bank of the Cornwallis River

Cornwallis River

The Cornwallis River is a river in Nova Scotia, Canada.It has a meander length of approximately 48 km from its source on the North Mountain near Berwick to its mouth near Wolfville on the Minas Basin. The lower portion of the river is tidal and there are extensive tidal marshes in the lower...

, opposite Greenwich

Greenwich, Nova Scotia

Greenwich is a Canadian rural community located in eastern Kings County, Nova Scotia.The community is bordered to the south by the Wolfville Ridge, immediately west of the town of Wolfville and east of the village of New Minas...

 and Wolfville

Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Wolfville is a small town in the Annapolis Valley, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada, located about northwest of the provincial capital, Halifax. As of 2006, the population was 3,772....

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As of 2006, the population was 1,079. The bridge into Port Williams is one of the best places to see the incoming and outgoing tides of the Bay of Fundy

Bay of Fundy

The Bay of Fundy is a bay on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine...

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The Prescott House Museum

Prescott House Museum

Prescott House is a historic house located in Starr's Point, Nova Scotia which is part of the Nova Scotia Museum. Built between 1812 and 1816 by Charles Ramage Prescott as the centrepiece of his country estate called "Acacia Grove", it is one of the best preserved Georgian houses in Atlantic Canada...

 is in nearby Starr's Point

Starr's Point, Nova Scotia

Starr's Point is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Kings County two miles west of Port Williams near the mouth of the Cornwallis River. It is an agricultural area noted for apple orchards. Wellington Dyke in Starr's Point encloses more than beside the Canard River...

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The village has a community center which also operates as a C@P

Nova Scotia C@P

Nova Scotia Community Access Program is a Government of Canada initiative, administered by Industry Canada, which aims to provide Nova Scotians with affordable public access to the Internet and the skills they need to use it effectively...

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External links

• Village of Port Williams