Starrs Point, Nova Scotia

Starrs Point is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Kings County two miles (3 km) northeast of Port Williams.

The Boudreaus also operated a ferry and schooner landing from the north side of the point along the Cornwallis River called Boudreau's Bank, where a flat bank of sandstone allowed schooners to safely beach and unload on at low tide.

In the American Revolution, raids by American privateers against the Planter settlements led the government to build Fort Hughes (Nova Scotia) in 1778 beside the militia parade ground at Starrs Point, a building which survives today as one of the oldest in the area known as the "Planters Barracks".

Completed in 1825, the dyke protects 3,000 acres (12 km2) along the north side of Starrs Point, formerly submerged by tides of the Minas Basin.

[5] Charles Ramage Prescott chose Starrs Point to establish a large farm and country estate in 1812 which played an important role in developing the area's apple industry.