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HALIFAX
COUNTY
Hubley
LOCATION:
Hubley is located between Timberlea and Upper
Tantallon along Route #3.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
The small community of Hubley was once known as
Fourteen Mile House because of its distance from Halifax. It was
named for Alexander Hubley, a descendant of Johann Ulrich Hubli. The
elder Hubli was one of the Foreign Protestants who settled in
Lunenburg County in 1753.
When a train station was constructed in the
community at the start of the twentieth century, the area became
known as Hubley Station. An Act of Legislation in 1901 had the name
changed to Hubley. But in the early 1960s, people began referring to
the area as Five Island Lake after a local lake and the Five Island
Lake Elementary School. Descendants of Alexander Hubley petitioned
to have the name Hubley restored, which has been done on road signs
along Highway #103.
LOCAL STORY:
Alexander Hubley settled in what today is Seabright
and often traveled from the bay to Halifax. He soon recognized the
need for a way station between the two communities. Popular
mythology has it that one day, as Alexander Hubley was making his
was to Halifax to sell produce after a snowstorm, he came across a
peddler's pack and footprints leading into the forest. He followed
the tracks and soon found the body of the peddler who had frozen to
death. Stuck by the tragedy of this event, Hubley petitioned for a
land grant of one hundred acres to build the Fourteen Mile House
which became a popular stopping place right up until the mid-1900s.
Full of entrepreneurial spirit, the Hubley family also organized
hunting and fishing expeditions and acted as wilderness guides.
HUBLEY TODAY:
Today a number of subdivisions have been developed
on either side of the highway that cuts through the community.
"one City...Many Communities" co -
published BY Halifax Regional Municipality AND Nimbus, funded BY
the HRM Millennium Committee.Author : Alfreda Withrow
Halifax County Genweb Project
gratefully acknowledges the following sources:
Historical Information on many
community pages is from : One
City...Many Communities" co - published by Halifax Regional
Municipality and Nimbus, funded By the HRM Millennium
Committee.Author : Alfreda Withrow.
Mapeeze: Free map linking on
Destination Nova Scotia.
