Debert

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Debert is an unincorporated farming community in Nova Scotia, Canada. Located in the central-western part of Colchester County, it is approximately 20 km (12 mi) west of Truro.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Nova Scotia

• East Mines
  1.7 mi away
• Masstown
  3.6 mi away
• East Folly Mountain
  4 mi away
• Lower Onslow
  6.1 mi away
• Old Barns
  7 mi away
• Lower Truro
  7.3 mi away
• Onslow Mountain
  7.4 mi away
• Black Rock
  8.2 mi away
• Onslow
  8.3 mi away
• Upper Onslow
  8.7 mi away
• Truro Heights
  8.9 mi away
• Selma
  8.9 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Debert

Ta'n wetapeksi'k

Debert Research Workshop (2005 Debert, N.S.) · 2011

Debert: a Palaeo-Indian site in central Nova Scotia

George F. MacDonald · 1968

DEBERT - A PALAEO-INDIAN SITE IN CENTRAL NOVA SCOTIA

National Museum of Canada · 1968

Effects of dredging on egg to fry emergence survival, timing and juvenile Atlantic salmon abundance, Debert River, Nova Scotia

J. R. Semple · 1995

Notes on the DeBert coal field, Colchester Co., N.S

Edwin Gilpin · 1883

History of the 6th Field Company Royal Canadian Engineers, 1939-1945

S. A Flatt · 1955

Late Pleistocene archaeology and ecology in the far Northeast

Claude Chapdelaine · 2012

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Western Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Seen 2026-09-25

Snow Goose

Anser caerulescens

Seen 2026-09-25

white clover

Trifolium repens

Seen 2026-09-23

common selfheal

Prunella vulgaris

Seen 2026-09-23

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Bombus impatiens

Seen 2026-09-23

Ring-billed Gull

Larus delawarensis

Seen 2026-09-20

Canada Goose

Branta canadensis

Seen 2026-09-19

Banded Garden Spider

Argiope trifasciata

Seen 2026-09-16

calico aster

Symphyotrichum lateriflorum

Seen 2026-09-13

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).