Sambro, Nova Scotia
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Sambro is a rural fishing community on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the head of Sambro Harbour at the end of Nova Scotia Route 306. The area is the most distant part of the southeastern entrance to Halifax Harbour. Its home to the oldest operational lighthouse in the Americas since 1758 . It stands 62 feet on the top of the rocky island. The old lens from the lighthouse is on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic on Halifax's waterfront.
[edit] History
Three years after the founding of Halifax in 1752 , 26 families settled and worked on Sambro Island after Governor Cornwallis saw the need to populate the area with British settlers to prevent a French attack by sea.
[edit] Communications
- Telephone exchange 902 - 868
- First three digits of postal code - B3V
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