Musquodoboit Valley
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The Musquodoboit Valley is a Canadian rural region in Northeastern Halifax Regional Municipality , Nova Scotia.
The picturesque Musquodoboit River flows through the valley, which is framed by low hills along the Halifax-Colchester county boundary before crossing more rugged glacially-scoured terrain for the latter half of the river's course to its mouth at Musquodoboit Harbour.
The Upper Musquodoboit Valley is fertile and comprises the largest farming district in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The annual Halifax County Exhibition is held each summer in the valley farming community of Middle Musquodoboit. Another important local industry is forestry, with the community of Upper Musquodoboit being home to Mactara, the province's largest sawmill.
[edit] Communities
The valley comprises the following communities, from the upper reaches of the river in the northeast to its outlet into the Atlantic Ocean in the south:
- Chaplin
- Dean
- Pleasant Valley
- Sheet Harbour Road
- Upper Musquodoboit
- Fraser Settlement
- Kent
- Centre Musquodoboit
- Reid
- Newcomb Corner
- Lindsay Lake
- Elmsvale
- Higginsville
- Brookvale
- Glenmore
- Middle Musquodoboit
- Chaswood
- South Section
- Murchyville
- Cooks Brook
- Elderbank
- Lake Egmont
- Wyses Corner
- Meaghers Grant
- Meagher
- Lower Meaghers Grant
- Musquodoboit Harbour
