Liverpool, Nova Scotia
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Liverpool's bridge at Bristol Avenue
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| Nickname(s): Port of the privateers | |
 Liverpool
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| Coordinates: 44°2′15″N 64°42′50″W / 44.03750°N 64.71389°WCoordinates: 44°2′15″N 64°42′50″W / 44.03750°N 64.71389°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Nova Scotia
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| Municipality | Region of Queens Municipality |
| Founded | 1759 |
| Incorporated Town | 1897 |
| Dissolved | April 19, 1996 |
| Area | |
| • Urban | 3.48 km2 (1.34 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Urban | 2,653 |
| • Urban density | 761.6/km2 (1,973/sq mi) |
| • Change (2006-11) |
 3.8% |
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) |
| Canadian Postal code | B0T 1K0 |
| Area code(s) | 902 / 782 |
| Telephone Exchange | 350 354 356 642 646 |
| Highways |
 Hwy 103 Trunk 8 Trunk 3
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Liverpool is a Canadian community and former town located along the Atlantic Ocean of the Province of Nova Scotia's South Shore. It is situated within the Region of Queens Municipality which is the local governmental unit that comprises all of Queens County, Nova Scotia.
Liverpool's harbour was an ancient seasonal camp of Nova Scotia's native Mi'kmaq and was known as Ogomkigeak meaning "dry sandy place" and Ogukegeok, meaning "place of departure". Samuel de Champlain originally named the harbour Port Rossignol, in honour of Captain Rossignol, an early 17th-century founder of New France in North America who used the harbour for fur trading. Later Nicolas Denys, a pioneering 17th-century French explorer and trader of Nova Scotia, was granted land here by the leader of Acadia, Isaac de Razilly (c. 1632).
Following the Expulsion of the Acadians during the French and Indian War (1754–1763), Liverpool was founded by New England Planters (commercially organized settlers) as a fishing port in 1759, originally named Lingley after Admiral Charles Lingley, and then renamed after Liverpool in England – which also lies along its own Mersey River. Silvanus Cobb was an original proprietor of the town. In 1759 Capt. Cobb became a proprietor of the new township of Liverpool. Liverpool township was to run from Cape Sable Island to Port Medway and continuing 14 miles inland from the shore. Sylvanus transported many of the other original residents to the new settlement. On July 1, 1760, at the first meeting of the proprietors, Capt. Cobb made a petition to be granted a piece of land to build a house and a wharf. The land was granted and the house was built at the foot of present-day Wolfe Street. There is a park and monument to Cobb at the site of his original home which was built from materials he transported from New England.
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