Amherst, Nova Scotia

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**Town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada**
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Area:	16.86 km²
Population:	9470
Population density:	561.6/km²
Time zone:	Eastern: UTC -5
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Amherst is a town in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, approximately 194 kilometres northwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

According to Dr Graham P. Hennessey, "The Micmac name was Nemcheboogwek meaning "going up rising ground". The Acadians who settled here as early as 1672 called the village Les Planches. It was named Amherst by Colonel Joseph Morse, the first settler, in honor of Lord Jeffrey Amherst, Commander of the British forces in America."

The town was first settled in 1764, originally three kilometres west, after the expulsion of the Acadians.

Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky was incarcerated at a detention center in Amherst after he was arrested in Halifax in 1917.

During World War II the Royal Canadian Navy named a Flower class corvette HMCS Amherst.

They are in the Atlantic Time Zone, UTC -4.