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Cook's Cove is a rural community on the furthest western point of Chedabucto Bay in
Guysborough County, Nova Scotia Guysborough County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The area was first inhabited by the indigenous Mi'kmaq, and was colonized by France in the 17th century. Following the defeat of France in North America, the area wa ...
.Patricia Lumsden. (2012). ''Cook Descendants - Inlaws and Outlaws''. (n.p.): Lulu.com.


History

The first inhabitants of Cook's Cove were the
Mi'kmaq The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Mi'kmaw'' or ''Mi'gmaw''; ; , and formerly Micmac) are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Bru ...
, who had seasonal settlements in the area. The Mi'kmaq name for the area was L'nui-wutanji'j, meaning "little native settlement". Cook's Cove named after John and Elias Cook of
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who settled at the cove around 1770 Land grants were issued to the Cooks and the seven other families who had been living in the area for some years in 1787, when large numbers of
Loyalists Loyalism, in the United Kingdom, its overseas territories and its former colonies, refers to the allegiance to the British crown or the United Kingdom. In North America, the most common usage of the term refers to loyalty to the British Cr ...
were settling in the area. A Methodist church and schoolhouse were built in the early 1820's. Twenty-two people from seven Mi'kmaq families lived in Cook's Cove in 1949.Paul, Daniel. N. (2021). ''We Were Not the Savages (3rd Edition) First Nations History: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations''. (n.p.):
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. The Mi'kmaq of the area were relocated to
Eskasoni The Eskasoni Mi'kmaw Nation () is a band government of the Mi'kmaq First Nations, located in Unama'ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia, Canada. As of 2021, Eskasoni has a membership of 4,675. Of this population, 3,973 live on-Reserve, and 667 live of ...
during the provincial governments policy of uprooting and centralizing small Mi'kmaq communities during the 1940's. The population in 1956 was 105.


Notable People

Pearleen Oliver (1917–2008) spent her infant years in Cook's Cove.


See also

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List of communities in Nova Scotia This is a list of communities in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as an unincorporated area, unincorporated settlement inside or outside a municipality ...


References


External links

* Christopher Cook
''Guysborough County Genealogy''
Guysborough Historical Society Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia Communities in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia {{NovaScotia-geo-stub