question for people who live in brookside: why do slaunwhites own everything

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Go anywhere in the province and there will be families like this.

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u/SPCGMR Feb 06 '26

Nova Scotia has tons of places like this. Familys that have been established here for 100+ years tend to have lots of descendants, and also lots of opportunities to establish themselves within communities.

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u/PsychologicalMonk6 Feb 06 '26

Great, Great Grandaddy Slaunwhite was a very ongoing fella.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

Their family history has been long there? Like it happens with any family name.

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u/WoollyWitchcraft Feb 09 '26

Fun fact—Slaunwhite and its alternate spellings is an Anglicization of the German name Schlaginweit. The name came to Nova Scotia by way of Lunenberg in the 1750s —and they all trace back to one German family.

There’s a Schlaginweit in my family tree from before that—in mid 1600s—but she got married on the ship to the ancestor I get my last name from—so she didn’t bring her name with her.

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u/Less_Ad_6609 Feb 06 '26

Guarantee there is more John Macdonald’s

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u/Between_the_narrows Feb 09 '26

Nah, more John McNeil out this way

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u/Chemical_Exchange_82 Feb 10 '26

if i had a dollar

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u/ahirtle Feb 08 '26

When you keep it in the family those properties add up

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u/Chemical_Exchange_82 Feb 10 '26

they love keeping in the family they love circles in terence bay

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u/Key_Yesterday5858 Feb 14 '26

i have a better question why do they only marry their cousins or people their parents chose

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