North West Harbour | |
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Coordinates: 43°33′47″N65°24′51″W / 43.563056°N 65.414167°W Coordinates: 43°33′47″N65°24′51″W / 43.563056°N 65.414167°W [1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Nova Scotia |
County | Shelburne |
Municipal district | Shelburne |
Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (ADT) |
Area code | 902 |
Access Routes | Shore Road |
North West Harbour is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Shelburne municipal district of Shelburne County. [2]
Shelburne County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Shelburne is a town located in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada.
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District of Shelburne, officially named the Municipality of the District of Shelburne, is a district municipality comprising the eastern section of Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada, but does not include the Towns of Shelburne or Lockeport. Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as a municipal district. It is home to the Bowers Meadows Wilderness Area.
Clark's Harbour is a town on Cape Sable Island in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, located in the Municipality of the District of Barrington in Shelburne County. The main industry is lobster fishing. Owing to this as well as the town's history as a fishing community, the town is noted as the birthplace of the Cape Islander fishing boat.
Sterling William Wallace Belliveau is a Canadian politician. Belliveau represented the electoral district of Shelburne in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2006 to 2017 as a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.
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Birchtown is a community and National Historic Site in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located near Shelburne in the Municipal District of Shelburne County. Founded in 1783, the village was the largest settlement of Black Loyalists and the largest free settlement of ethnic Africans in North America in the eighteenth century. The two other significant Black Loyalist communities established in Nova Scotia were Brindley town and Tracadie. Birchtown was named after British Brigadier General Samuel Birch, an official who helped lead the evacuation of Black Loyalists from New York.
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North East Harbour is a community in Nova Scotia, Canada, located in the Shelburne municipal district of Shelburne County.
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Southern Nova Scotia or the South Shore is a region of Nova Scotia, Canada. The area has no formal identity and is variously defined by geographic, county and other political boundaries. Statistics Canada, defines Southern Nova Scotia as an economic region, composed of Lunenburg County, Queens County, Shelburne County, Yarmouth County, and Digby County. According to Statistics Canada, the region had the highest decrease of population in Canada from 2009 to 2010, with a population decrease of 10.2 residents per thousand. The region also has the second-highest median age in Canada at 47.1 years old.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Nova Scotia:
The Book of Negroes is a 2015 television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. The book was inspired by the British freeing and evacuation of former slaves, known as Black Loyalists, who had left rebel masters during the American Revolutionary War. The British transported some 3,000 Black Loyalists to Nova Scotia for resettlement, documenting their names in what was called the Book of Negroes.
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