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Shubie Park is a 16-hectare (40-acre) urban park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia maintained by the Halifax Regional Municipality. Heavily forested, Shubie Park is roughly linear in shape as it is bounded on the north and west by Highway 118 expressway and on the south and east by Lake Micmac and the southern edge of Lake Charles .
Map of the United States with California highlighted. California is a state located in the Western United States. It is the most populous state and the third largest by area after Alaska and Texas. According to the 2020 United States Census, California has 39,538,223 inhabitants and 155,779.22 square miles (403,466.3 km 2) of land. [1]
Established as California's first state park, to preserve coast redwoods on Waddell Creek. [27] Bodie State Historic Park: State historic park Mono: 1,016 411 1962 Preserves the ghost town of Bodie, whose gold-mining heyday ran from 1877 to 1881, and is now a National Historic Landmark. [28] Bolsa Chica State Beach: State beach Orange: 169 68 1960
The Wildlife Park is home to Shubenacadie Sam, the first groundhog in North America to make a prediction on Groundhog Day thanks to Nova Scotia's Atlantic Time Zone. The groundhog's prediction happens at 8 am in a public ceremony that draws several hundred people to the park every year since 1987 and is now broadcast on Facebook and Twitter. [9]
Halifax serves as the center of the show's filming locations, but fans can also visit Beaver Bank, Shubie Park and Oakfield Provincial Park, which are all spots where the show has been filmed.
Father Louis-Pierre Thury sought to gather the Mi'kmaq of Peninsular Nova Scotia into a single settlement around Shubenacadie as early as 1699. Not until the Dummer's War between the New France-aligned Wabanaki Confederacy and English New England from 1722–1725, however, did Antoine Gaulin, [5] a Quebec-born missionary, erect a permanent mission at Shubenacadie (adjacent to Snides Lake and ...
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Nova Scotia's largest and smallest towns by population are Truro and Lockeport with 12,954 and 476 residents respectively. [2] Truro is also Nova Scotia's largest by land area at 34.49 km 2 (13.32 sq mi) and Annapolis Royal is the smallest by land area at 1.98 km 2 (0.76 sq mi). [2]