Municipality of the County of Antigonish
{{Short description|County municipality in Nova Scotia}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
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|settlement_type = County Municipality
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|map_caption = Location of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = Canada
|subdivision_type1 = Province
|subdivision_name1 = Nova Scotia
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|subdivision_type3 = Municipalities
|subdivision_name3 = Municipality of the County of Antigonish
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|seat_type =Electoral Districts
Federal
|seat = Central Nova
Cape Breton—Canso
|parts_type =Provincial
|parts =Antigonish
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|government_type =Antigonish County Municipal Council
|leader_title =Warden
|leader_name =Owen McCarron
|leader_title1 =MLA
|leader_name1 =Michelle Thompson (Conservative)
|leader_title2 =MP (Central Nova)
|leader_name2 =Sean Fraser (L){{cite web |url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Sean-Fraser(88316) |title=Sean Fraser |publisher=Parliament of Canada |access-date=26 May 2016}}
|leader_title3 =MP (Cape Breton—Canso)
|leader_name3 =Mike Kelloway (L){{cite web |url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Rodger-Cuzner(1804) |title=Rodger Cuzner |publisher=Parliament of Canada |access-date=26 May 2016}}
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|established_title3 = Incorporated
|established_date3 = 1879
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|area_land_km2 =1457.81
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|population_as_of = 2016
|population_footnotes =[https://archive.today/20130101055513/http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Table.cfm?T=301&SR=101&S=1&O=A&RPP=100&PR=0&CMA=0/ Statistics Canada] Population and dwelling counts, for Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2006 and 2001 censuses – 100% data
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|population_total = 19301
|population_density_km2 = 13.2
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|population_blank1_title = Change 2011-16
|population_blank1 = {{loss}}1.5%
|population_blank2_title = Census Rankings
- Census divisions
Subdivision A
Subdivision B
- Towns
Antigonish
- Reserves
Pomquet & Afton 23
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|area_code = 902
|blank_name = Dwellings
|blank_info = 9,842
|blank1_name = Median Earnings*
|blank1_info =$49,581
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|footnotes = *Median household income, 2005 (all households)
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The Municipality of the County of Antigonish is a county municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It provides local government to the eponymous historical county, except for the Town of Antigonish, and two reserves: Pomquet and Afton 23, and Summerside 38. In the Canada 2016 Census the county had a population of 19,301, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:19301-19589}}|19589|1}} from its 2011 population of 19,589.
The municipality provides public works services such as rubbish collection, road works, fresh water, and wastewater.{{cite web |title=Public Works |url=https://www.antigonishcounty.ns.ca/public-works/ |website=Municipality of the County of Antigonish |access-date=3 August 2021 |language=en-CA}}
History
Antigonish is from the Miꞌkmaq language and the meaning is uncertain.{{cite web |title=A Brief History |url=https://www.townofantigonish.ca/a-brief-history.html |website=www.townofantigonish.ca |publisher=Town of Antigonish |access-date=3 August 2021}} The first humans arrived in the area about 2500 years ago. Acadian colonists arrived in the early 1700s before being deported when the territory changed hands from the French Ancien Régime to the Kingdom of Great Britain. In the 1770s Scottish emigrants of the Highland Clearances arrived. Following the American Revolutionary War, United Empire Loyalists arrived. In second half of the 1800s, St. Francis Xavier University opened, and railways, telephones, electric lighting came to the area. At this point the population was close to what it is today.
It was incorporated as a county municipality in 1879{{Cite web|date=2018-12-08|title=Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing|url=https://beta.novascotia.ca/government/municipal-affairs-and-housing|access-date=2020-09-26|website=Communications Nova Scotia|language=en}} with the town of Antigonish incorporating as a separate municipality 10 years later.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.antigonishcounty.ns.ca/ Municipality of the County of Antigonish]
{{NSAntigonish}}
{{Subdivisions of Nova Scotia}}