Ardoise (formerly Ardoise Hill) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in West Hants Regional Municipality in Hants County.

[1] Its name is the French word for slate, and is considered descriptive of the geology of the area.

[2] Reverend George Gillmore was given a land grant of 500 acres in Ardoise in 1786, but found the rocky landscape challenging to cultivate and moved away in 1791.

A union meeting house was erected in Ardoise in 1830, and remained standing until at least 1967.

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