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Argyle, officially named the Municipality of the District of Argyle, is a List of district municipalities in Nova Scotia#District municipality, district municipality in Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as a municipal district. The district municipality occupies the eastern portion of the county and is one of three municipal units - the other two being the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Town of Yarmouth and the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth. Argyle is a bilingual community, in which native speakers of Canadian English, English and Acadian French, French each account for about half of the population. As of 2016, 60% of the population speaks both French and English, one of the highest rates of bilingualism in Canada.Western Regional Enterprise Network


History

Originally inhabited by the Mi'kmaq, it was called "Bapkoktek". In 1766, after his service in the French and Indian Wars, Lt. Ranald MacKinnon was given a land grant of . He called it Argyle (Argyll) because he was reminded of his previous home in the Highlands of Scotland. The township was granted in 1771.


Demographics

In the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Municipality of the District of Argyle had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Education: *No certificate, diploma or degree: 41.64% *High school certificate: 16.38% *Apprenticeship or trade certificate or diploma: 14.16% *Community college, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma: 19.36% *University certificate or diploma: 8.40% Unemployment rate: *10.7% Average house value: *$147,574


Communities


See also

* List of municipalities in Nova Scotia


References


External links

* {{Subdivisions of Nova Scotia Communities in Yarmouth County District municipalities in Nova Scotia, Argyle Bilingualism in Canada Linguistic geography of Canada