Birch Cove (Mi'kmawi'simk: Mnikwaqnik) is a subdivision and a cove in the community of Halifax[1] within the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada, on the shore of Bedford Basin and along the Bedford Highway (Trunk 2).
The English-language name is after the birch trees that hung over the cove by William Donaldson, who named his estate Birch Cove.
The Mi'kmaq used the area as a summer camping ground until the 1920s, there are also traces of an early Acadian village.
A gravesite was uncovered in 1890 and scientific analysis proved they were actually Acadian soldiers.
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