Birch Cove (
Mi'kmawi'simk: ''Mnikwaqnik'') is a
subdivision
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Arts and entertainment
* Subdivision (metre), in music
* ''Subdivision'' (film), 2009
* "Subdivision", an episode of ''Prison Break'' (season 2)
* ''Subdivisions'' (EP), by Sinch, 2005
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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
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(
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
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village. A gravesite was uncovered in 1890 and scientific analysis proved they were actually Acadian soldiers.
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