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The first European settlement took place in 1784 when Lt. Colonel Timothy Hierlihy of the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment received a large land grant surrounding Antigonish Harbour. [4] Hierlihy and his party founded the Dorchester settlement, named for Sir Guy Carleton, who was Governor General of Canada and subsequently Lord Dorchester.
Sugarloaf Mountain, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Antigonish County, Nova Scotia contains a number of communities. Many of them have Gaelic names. Communities are ordered by the highway on which they are located, whose routes start after each terminus near the largest community.
This is a list of communities in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, as designated by the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as an unincorporated settlement inside or outside a municipality.
Heatherton (Bail’ a’ Fhraoich) is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County. [1] It has a Community centre, post office, and Catholic church. The local economy consists of farming, forestry, and fishing. Many people work in the town of Antigonish. It also has a group home and a community centre ...
The Municipality of the County of Antigonish is a county municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It provides local government to the eponymous historical county , except for the Town of Antigonish , and two reserves: Pomquet and Afton 23 , and Summerside 38 .
Antigonish, Nova Scotia (2 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Communities in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total.
Dagger Woods is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County. [ 1 ] 45°35′36″N 61°50′26″W / 45.59333°N 61.84056°W / 45.59333; -61.84056 ( Dagger Woods, Nova
Clydesdale (Scottish Gaelic: Dail Chluaidh) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County. [1] The area was originally called Yankee Grant as it was granted to a settler from New Hampshire named Dylan Brophy, in 1796. In 1876 it was renamed after the River Clyde in Scotland. [2