Tuft's Cove, Nova Scotia
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Tuft's Cove is a Canadian urban neighbourhood in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality. It is situated on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour in the North End of the former city of Dartmouth.
The area was named after the Tufts family who, as United Empire Loyalists, left the unwelcome situation in Massachusetts and settled on the land in 1776.
The land was also the site of a small Mi'kmaq settlement until destroyed in the Halifax Explosion, December 6, 1917.
The neighbourhood boundaries of Tuft's Cove are approximately from Albro Lake Road in the south to Highway 111 in the north, and from Victoria Road in the east with the harbour to the west.
The dominant feature of Tuft's Cove is the Tuft's Cove Generating Station, whose smokestacks tower over the area. The construction of the plant required the purchase and subsequent destruction of a large number of the neighbourhood's homes by Nova Scotia Power in 1965.
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