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This is a list of communities in Victoria County, Nova Scotia. Baddeck: a village within the Municipality of the County of Victoria; Unincorporated areas. Big Bras d'Or; Cape North; Dingwall; Englishtown; Ingonish; Iona; Neil's Harbour; St. Anns; South Harbour; Wagmatcook 1 and Wagmatcook First Nation, reserves
A village is a type of community in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia that has a commission established under the Municipal Government Act for the purpose of providing municipal services to a defined area within a larger county or district municipality. [1] Nova Scotia has 21 villages. [2]
Pages in category "Communities in Victoria County, Nova Scotia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
This is a list of communities in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as an unincorporated settlement inside or outside a municipality. Contents:
Location of Nova Scotia in Canada Distribution of Nova Scotia's 49 municipalities by municipal status type. Nova Scotia is the seventh-most populous province in Canada with 969,383 residents as of the 2021 Census of Population, and the second-smallest province in land area at 52,824.71 km 2 (20,395.73 sq mi). [1]
Before the establishment of rural municipalities in the form of county municipalities and district municipalities in 1879, local government in the historical counties was administered by appointed courts of sessions including justices appointed by the Crown with support from local proprietors selected to grand juries. [2]
Like other parts of Nova Scotia, the county was sparsely inhabited by the Miꞌkmaq, who hunted in the area. [4] The earliest settlers of Victoria County were almost exclusively Loyalists, with most arriving from the United States in the years following the American Revolutionary War. It was noted by historian G.G. Patterson in 1885 that "In ...
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