Shelburne


A town on the south-west coast of the province of Nova

Scotia; founded by United Empire Loyalists in 1783; first known as Port

Roseway. For a few years after its foundation the town grew at an

astonishing pace, and at one time "had a population larger than that of

Quebec and Montreal combined," but the locality afforded none of the

elements of permanent prosperity, and the bulk of the population drifted

to other parts of the province. =Index=: (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Town of, founded by

Loyalists, 263. =Bib.=: Haliburton, History of Nova Scotia; Sabine,

American Loyalists; Bourinot, Builders of Nova Scotia; Lovell,

Gazetteer of Canada.



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