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History of Nova Scotia: The Founding of Halifax (1749)

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A detailed description of the choice of creating a harbour and founding a town at Chebucto, later named Halifax. The description details how the area had been long used by the French and the Mik'Maq before them and how the British decided to build a town there.

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