Argyle, officially named the Municipality of the District of Argyle, is a

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classifies the district municipality as a

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. The district municipality occupies the eastern portion of the county and is one of three municipal units - the other two being the Town of Yarmouth and the

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. Argyle is a bilingual community, in which native speakers of

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and

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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

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History

Originally inhabited by the

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, it was called "Bapkoktek". In 1766, after his service in the

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, Lt.

Ranald MacKinnon Ranald MacKinnon (sometimes spelled ''McKinnon'') was a soldier and a civil servant of the British Empire from 1758 until his death in 1805. As a junior officer he served with Montgomerie's Highlanders (77th Regiment of Foot) in the French and ...

was given a land grant of . He called it Argyle (

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) because he was reminded of his previous home in the Highlands of Scotland. The township was granted in 1771.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

, 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

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

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