Woods Harbour 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 ...
, located in the
Barrington municipal district of
Shelburne County
Shelburne County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
History
Shelburne County was founded in 1784 shortly following the influx of Loyalist settlers evacuated from the newly independent United States. It was originally named Port ...
.
[Government of Nova Scotia website: Community Counts](_blank)
/ref>[''The Nova Scotia Atlas'', 5th ed., Formac Publishing Co. Ltd., Halifax, NS, 2001, p. 86]
The number of residents is around 1227.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 ...
name for the area was Cockouquit, which was a word for duck.
See also
* 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
Hawk, The
Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia
Populated coastal places in Canada
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