Place:Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Name	Colchester
Alt names	Cobequid	source: pre-1780 name of district
	Colchester	source: Family History Library Catalog
Type	District, County
Located in	Nova Scotia, Canada (1835 - )
Also located in	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (1759 - 1835)
See also	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	pre-1780 parent county

Contained Places

Inhabited place: Bass River; Brookfield; Economy; Five Islands; Great Village; Little Bass River; Londonderry; Stewiacke; Tatamagouche; Truro; Upper Economy
Unknown: Beaver Brook; Brule; Clifton; Earltown; Glenholme; Halfway Brook; Hilden; Old Barns; Onslow; Otter Brook; Princeport; Upper Stewiacke; West New Annan; Wittenburg

1759 - Halifax county is established in the English province of Nova Scotia. It contains the District of Cobequid.

1780 - Cobequid district is renamed to Colchester district.

1835 - Colchester district becomes Colchester county.

1840 - Colchester county annexes part of Parrsboro township which has been divided.

1848 - Colchester county is located in the self-governing English province of Nova Scotia.

1867 - Colchester county is located in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia after the formation of the country of Canada.

1871 - New boundaries are established.
1880 - Boundaries are revised.

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Modern description

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Colchester County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. With a population of 51,476 the county is the fourth largest in Nova Scotia. Colchester County is located in north central Nova Scotia.

The majority of the county is governed by the Municipality of the County of Colchester, the county also is home to two independent incorporated towns, Stewiacke and Truro, two village commissions in Bible Hill and Tatamagouche, and the Millbrook 27 First Nations reserve.

This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Colchester County, Nova Scotia. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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