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Harrigan Cove
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Harrigan Cove is located on the
Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia in the county of Halifax, in the province
of Nova Scotia, in the country of Canada.
A settlement situated about twenty miles north-east of Sheet Harbour on the eastern shore being named after an early settler. A plan of lots dated in 1827 shows much of the land belonged to Simon and Alexander Fraser and Thomas Currey.
St. Mary’s Anglican Church was consecrated on September 25, 1909.
A school-house was erected about 1880.
A Postal Way Office was established in 1864.
Gold was discovered in this district in 1868, but it was not until the last of the century that mining operations became active for a few years.
In 1883, Barnham and Morrill of Portland, Maine, operated a lobster processing factory here, and fishing has been a major industry.
The population in 1956 was 127.
(Taken from Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia, published by the Public Archives of Nova Scotia as a special project to commemorate Canada’s centenary of Confederation in 1967, page 282: http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/cap/places/ )
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