Tuft's Cove, Nova Scotia

Infobox_HRM_Community_Neighbourhood
Planning Area = Dartmouth
GNBC Code = CBMLN
Mapor

Maporimagedescription= Mi'kmaq people at Tuft's Cove, NS, ca. 1871.
Communities = Albro Lake, Bell Ayr Park, Brightwood, Burnside, Commodore Park, Crichton Park, Crystal Heights, Downtown Dartmouth, Ellenvale, Grahams Corner, Greenough Settlement, Harbourview, Highfield Park, Imperoyal, Manor Park, Nantucket, Port Wallace, Portland Estates, Portland Hills, Shannon Park, Southdale, Tam O'Shanter Ridge, Tuft's Cove, Wallace Heights, Woodlawn, Woodside
Community Council = Harbour East Community Council

Tuft's Cove is a Canadian urban neighbourhood in the Dartmouth area of Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality. It is situated on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour in the North End of Dartmouth.

The area was named after the Tufts family who, as United Empire Loyalists, left the unwelcome situation in Massachusetts and settled on the land in 1776.

The land was also the site of a small Mi'kmaq settlement known as Turtle Grove until it was destroyed in the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917. The settlement dated at least to the late 18th century. A painting from the 1790s shows a Mi'kmaq family at the cove and an oil painting circa 1837 by William Eager shows a Mi'kmaq encampment at Tuft's Cove. The Turtle Grove settlement was never rebuilt after the explosion. Survivors were settled in other Nova Scotian reserves. Disposal of the land is being planned by the Canadian federal government's Canada Lands Company. Mi'kmaq from the Middlebrook Reserve near Truro have applied for a portion of the former Shannon Park military housing development beside the cove.

The entrance to the cove was crossed by a railway trestle in the 1880s connecting to the short-lived railway bridge across the Narrows. The tracks were relocated to the head of the cove in the 1890s when the bridge collapsed. Shannon Park, a large military housing complex was built beside the cove in the 1950s. It closed in 2004.

The neighbourhood boundaries of Tuft's Cove are approximately from Albro Lake Road in the south to Highway 111 in the north, and from Victoria Road in the east with the harbour to the west.

The dominant feature of Tuft's Cove is the Tuft's Cove Generating Station, whose smokestacks tower over the area. The construction of the plant required the purchase and subsequent destruction of a large number of the neighbourhood's homes by Nova Scotia Power in 1965.

References

* [http://www.metchosinmuseum.org/Contentpages/Coastal%20History/mary_ellen_tufts.htm Bio of Mary Ellen Argyle]

External links

* [http://www.destination-ns.com/common/places.asp?PlaceID=1363#general Destination Nova Scotia]
* [http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=dartmouth+ns&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=44.679578,-63.59921&spn=0.013549,0.054245&t=h&om=1 Google Maps image of Tufts Cove]