Londonderry, Nova Scotia

Londonderry is an unincorporated community located in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada, formerly called Acadia Mines.

A bustling iron ore mining and steel making town of some 5,000 in the late 19th century, the population today stands at around 200.

The iron ore seams that encouraged development, originally thought to be enormous, proved to be small, shallow, and very expensive to mine.

The fatal blow to the community came with a destructive fire in 1920 which destroyed a large portion of the town.

Both arrangements made by former British army Captain Alexander McNutt, who was formerly stationed at nearby Fort Cumberland and was originally from Ireland.