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St. Margarets Bay | |
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Administrative District | |
 Location of St. Margarets Bay planning area of municipal Halifax. | |
  St. Margarets Bay Location within Nova Scotia | |
| Coordinates: 44°38′40″N63°40′34″W / 44.6444°N 63.6762°W Coordinates: 44°38′40″N63°40′34″W / 44.6444°N 63.6762°W | |
| Country |  |
| Province |  |
| Municipality | Halifax Regional Municipality |
| Founded | 1612 (Head of St. Margarets Bay) |
| Communities | Black Point, Boutiliers Point, French Village, Glen Haven, Glen Margaret, Hackett's Cove, Head of St. Margaret's Bay, Hubbards, Hubley, Indian Harbour, Ingramport, Lewis Lake, Peggys Cove, Queensland, Seabright, Simms Settlement, Tantallon, Upper Tantallon |
| Government | |
| • Council | Western Region Community Council |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−3 (ADT) |
| Area code(s) | 902 |
| Part of a series about Places in Nova Scotia | |
St. Margaret's Bay is the westernmost administrative planning district of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime Provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada. Its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest of Canada's ten provinces, with an area of 55,284 square kilometres (21,300 sq mi), including Cape Breton and another 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2016, the population was 923,598. Nova Scotia is Canada's second-most-densely populated province, after Prince Edward Island, with 17.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (45/sq mi).
It is a rural area located on the southwestern part of Halifax County comprising those communities in the county located on the eastern and northern shores of St. Margaret's Bay through to the county line, terminating at the community of Hubbards. It borders on Hants County to the north and on Lunenburg County to the west. [1]
Halifax County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The Municipality of the County of Halifax was the municipal government of Halifax County, apart from the separately incorporated towns and cities therein. The Municipality was dissolved in 1996, together with those town and city governments, in their amalgamation into Halifax Regional Municipality.
St. Margarets Bay is a bay located on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada on the border of Halifax County and Lunenburg County.
Hubbards is an unincorporated Canadian rural community on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.
