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MacPhees Corner, Nova Scotia

human settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6722069 ↗
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MacPhees Corner (formerly McPhees Corner) is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in East Hants Municipality in Hants County.

The community was named for the McPhee family, who were early settlers of the area. James, Evan, and Donald McPhee were given a 700 acre land grant in the area on February 6, 1822.

St. Thomas Anglican church was erected in the area in 1797. A new church building was later built in 1845 and consecrated in November 1892.

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The public source identifies “MacPhees Corner, Nova Scotia” as human settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around MacPhees, Corner and Nova.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1822, 1797, 1845, 1892—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with MacPhees, Corner and Nova providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6722069. Authority coordinates are 45.117, -63.541. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1822, 1797, 1845 and 1892.

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This entry incorporates text from “MacPhees Corner, 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.