Barrington is an unincorporated
Canadian
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rural community of about 4,000 people on the northeast corner of Barrington Bay
in
Shelburne County,
Nova Scotia
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.
Barrington is part of the much larger
Municipality of the District of Barrington, also wholly within Shelburne County.
History
Barrington's inhabitants are mostly
descendants of the first settlers from
Chatham and
Harwich
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on
Cape Cod
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,
Massachusetts
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who emigrated to the area during the 1760s. One such settler was Solomon Kendrick, father of
John Kendrick, explorer and
maritime fur trader. Solomon moved from Harwich, Cape Cod, to Barrington in the 1760s.
In popular culture
Disguised as "Barringford," Barrington is the main setting of Canadian novelist
Hugh Hood's debut 1964 novel, ''
White Figure, White Ground''.
See also
*
List of communities in Nova Scotia
References
External links
Barrington on Destination Nova Scotia
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Communities in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia
Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia
Populated coastal places in Canada