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East Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia

human settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ5329345 ↗
Source-derived summary

East Ship Harbour is a rural community on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The community is located on the Marine Drive on Nova Scotia Trunk 7, about 33 km (21 mi) west of Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia. The community is located along the shores of Ship Harbour, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. The mi'kmaq name for the area was TedumunaBoogwek, translating to "water-worn rock".

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Bibliography

Scott, David (2011). Nova Scotia Place Names. DESPUB. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-9865370-1-1.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “East Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia” as human settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where East, Ship and Harbour can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5329345. Authority coordinates are 44.779, -62.797. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “East Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.