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Broughton, Nova Scotia. Broughton (2001 pop.: 24) was a former town in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality about 19 kilometers from the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia. It was going to be one of Canada's first planned towns, designed to eventually accommodate 10,000 residents. [1] In reality, it was mostly abandoned when mining operations failed ...
Politics of Nova Scotia. The politics of Nova Scotia take place within the framework of a Westminster-style parliamentary constitutional monarchy. As Canada's head of state and monarch, Charles III is the sovereign of the province in his capacity as King in Right of Nova Scotia; his duties in Nova Scotia are carried out by the Lieutenant ...
Official website. Median household income, 2005 (all households) Digby, officially named the Municipality of the District of Digby, is a district municipality in Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as a municipal district . The district municipality forms the eastern part of Digby County.
Africville was a small community of predominantly African Nova Scotians located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It developed on the southern shore of Bedford Basin and existed from the early 1800s to the 1960s. From 1970 to the present, a protest has occupied space on the grounds. The government has recognized it as a commemorative site and ...
Louisbourg is an unincorporated community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. History [ edit ] The French military founded the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1713 and its fortified seaport on the southwest part of the harbour, naming it in honour of Louis XIV . [1]
Timeline: 1759: the Nova Scotia peninsula was divided into five counties: Annapolis, Cumberland, Halifax, Kings, and Lunenburg. 1765: the colonies of Cape Breton and Nova Scotia were merged, and Cape Breton County was added. 1762-1836: Queens, Shelburne, and Yarmouth separated from Lunenburg. 1781: Hants separated from Kings.
Hammonds Plains was established as a settlement for United Empire Loyalists in 1786 along a road running from Birch Cove on Bedford Basin to St. Margaret's Bay. Landowners voted to name the road after the popular outgoing Lt. Governor Andrew Snape Hamond. [2] Further settlers arrived with disbanded soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars and Black ...
