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Birch Cove is a Subdivision and a Cove in the Bedford area of the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia on the Shore of Bedford Basin and along the Bedford Highway ( Trunk 2 ). The 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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