44°41′02″N 63°40′23″W / 44.68389°N 63.67306°W Birch Cove ( Mi'kmawi'simk: Mnikwaqnik) is a subdivision and a cove in the community of Bedford within the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada, on the shore of Bedford Basin and along the Bedford Highway ( Trunk 2).
The original place name of the Mi'kmaq, Mnikwaqnik, means "place where they get bark." The English-language name is after the birch trees that hung over the cove by William Donaldson, who named his estate Birch Cove.
History
The Mi'kmaq used the area as a summer camping ground until the 1920s, there are also traces of an early Acadian village. A gravesite was uncovered in 1890 and scientific analysis proved they were actually Acadian soldiers.
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44°41′02″N 63°40′23″W / 44.68389°N 63.67306°W Birch Cove ( Mi'kmawi'simk: Mnikwaqnik) is a subdivision and a cove in the community of Bedford within the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada, on the shore of Bedford Basin and along the Bedford Highway ( Trunk 2).
The original place name of the Mi'kmaq, Mnikwaqnik, means "place where they get bark." The English-language name is after the birch trees that hung over the cove by William Donaldson, who named his estate Birch Cove.
History
The Mi'kmaq used the area as a summer camping ground until the 1920s, there are also traces of an early Acadian village. A gravesite was uncovered in 1890 and scientific analysis proved they were actually Acadian soldiers.
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