Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia
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Chebucto Head is a Canadian headland on Nova Scotia's Chebucto Peninsula located within the community of Duncans Cove.
Chebucto Head forms the most easterly point on the peninsula and is used to define the southwestern limit of Halifax Harbour; historically known to the Mi'kmaq Nation as "Chebucto", or "big harbour". A line drawn northeast from Chebucto Head to Pennant Point defines the southern geographic limit of the harbour. The actual legal limit of the harbour is located further inland to the north of this line.
Chebucto Head has been the site of several light stations; the current one is operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. A lightkeeper's residence was occupied until the early 1980s but following automation of the light station, sat unused until being burnt by arsonists in the early 2000s.
Chebucto Head was used by the CCG as the control centre for the Vessel Traffic Service or VTS that controlled vessel movements Halifax Harbour until the 1980s when a new control centre was opened at Shannon Hill, above the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth.
During World War II, the waters off Chebucto Head were the location of several battles between Allied surface escorts and Nazi U-boats; Halifax Harbour being the primary fast convoy departure and arrival point in eastern North America. The Royal Canadian Navy operated a searchlight and coastal gun battery at Chebucto Head as a means to ward off the U-boat menace which used the light station as a navigational reference.
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