Mill Cove is a community in the

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province of

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, located in the Chester Municipal District on the

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on the

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(

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). The community was home to

CFS Mill Cove Canadian Forces Station Mill Cove (CFS Mill Cove) is a former Canadian Forces Station and currently a naval radio station located near Hubbards, Nova Scotia. Built in 1967, it is remotely operated by the Canadian Forces from CFB Halifax. Histor ...

from 1967 til the 1990s.

History

Mill Cove was originally granted to Jacque Louis Jollimore (1754-1833) age 38 and John Troop (1792), after both men and their families had lived in the community for many decades. James Lewis Jollimore was born in Lunenburg and was the first to settle at Mill Cove with his wife Catherine (c. 1778). They had nine children at Mill Cove. James's father was a French Protestant who came from Montbeliard, France to settle in Lunenburg. James's father was part of the "foreign protestant" migration from Europe to Nova Scotia. Jacques Louis's name was later anglicized to James Lewis. He died a year after he was officially granted of land at Mill Cove at age 79 (1782). He is buried in Mill Cove. John Troop arrived in Nova Scotia in 1774. 18 years later Troop received at Mill Cove (1792). Two years later, Troop purchased a lot on the burial ground of St. Peters (1810) church across St. Margaret's Bay at Hacketts Cove (formerly Haggets Cove). The burial ground was the first in St. Margaret's Bay (1794).

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Mill Cove on Destination Nova Scotia
Communities in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia {{LunenburgNS-geo-stub