Fox Point is a community in the

Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

province of

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, located on its east coast. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and Population of Canada by province and territory, most populous province in Atlan ...

. It is located on the

Aspotogan Peninsula The Aspotogan Peninsula () is a peninsula in the eastern part of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, separating St. Margarets Bay in the east from Mahone Bay in the west. The peninsula was originally settled by second generation French immigrants on ...

and is part of the Chester Municipal District. It is accessed via the

Lighthouse Route The Lighthouse Route is a scenic roadway in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It follows the province's South Shore (Nova Scotia), South Shore for from Halifax Urban Area, Halifax to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Yarmouth. List of highways Number ...

(

Nova Scotia Route 329 Route 329 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in Lunenburg County and connects East River at Trunk 3 with Hubbards at Trunk 3. It runs around the perimeter of the Aspotogan Peninsula. Communities *E ...

). The community may have been named after the British abolitionist politician

Charles James Fox Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled ''The Honourable'' from 1762, was a British British Whig Party, Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centurie ...

(1749–1806).

History

The

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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 ...

people are believed to have had a migratory cycle, moving to the Fox Point area during summer, and then returning inland to Shubenacadie during winter. Today, the Fox Point community includes a wharf and a

Seventh-day Adventist The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbat ...

Church.

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Fox Point on Destination Nova Scotia
{{coord, 44, 37, 18.31, N, 64, 3, 30.72, W, name=Fox Point,, Nova Scotia, display=title, region:CA-NS_scale:100000 Communities in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia