Editing Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (section)

==History==
{{Main|History of Dartmouth|History of the Halifax Regional Municipality}}
[[File:Alderney Landing Dartmouth (1).jpg|thumb|left|Alderney Landing, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia]]

===18th century===
[[Father Le Loutre's War]] began when [[Edward Cornwallis]] arrived to establish [[Halifax (former city)|Halifax]] with 13 transports on June 21, 1749.<ref>Grenier, John. ''The Far Reaches of Empire. War in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760''. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2008; Thomas Beamish Akins. History of Halifax, Brookhouse Press. 1895. (2002 edition). p 7</ref> By unilaterally establishing Halifax, the British were violating earlier treaties with the [[Miꞌkmaq]] (1726), which were signed after [[Father Rale's War]].<ref>{{harvp|Wicken|2002|p=181}}; Griffith, p. 390; Also see {{cite web|title=Northeast Archaeological Research --|url=http://www.northeastarch.com/vieux_logis.html|website=northeastarch|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514082831/http://www.northeastarch.com/vieux_logis.html|archive-date=2013-05-14|access-date=2014-02-05}}</ref> The British quickly began to build other settlements. To guard against Miꞌkmaq, Acadian, and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax (1749), [[History of Dartmouth|Dartmouth]] (1750), [[Bedford, Nova Scotia|Bedford]] (Fort Sackville) (1751), [[Lunenburg, Nova Scotia|Lunenburg]] (1753), and [[Lawrencetown, Halifax County, Nova Scotia|Lawrencetown]] (1754).

In 1750, the sailing ship ''Alderney'' arrived with 151 immigrants. Municipal officials at Halifax decided that these new arrivals should be settled on the eastern side of [[Halifax Harbour]]. During the early years, eight  Acadian and Miꞌkmaq raids were made on the new British settlement, such as the [[Raid on Dartmouth (1751)]].

The original settlement was made in an area the Miꞌkmaq called Ponamogoatitjg<ref>{{cite book|last=Wicken|first=William C.|title=Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial: History, Land and Donald Marshall Junior|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MEQyYggQE8C&pg=PP1|year=2002|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-7665-6|page=174}}</ref> (Boonamoogwaddy), which has been varyingly translated as "Tomcod Ground" or "Salmon Place" in reference to the fish that were presumably caught in this part of Halifax Harbour. The community was later given the English name of Dartmouth in honour of [[William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth]], who was a former [[Secretary of State for the Southern Department|secretary of state]]. By 1752, 53 families consisting of 193 people lived in the community.

The oldest structure in Dartmouth is the [[Quaker Whaler House|house of William Ray]], a [[Quaker]] and [[Cooper (profession)|cooper]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3066|title=HistoricPlaces.ca - HistoricPlaces.ca|website=www.historicplaces.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-05-03}}</ref> from Nantucket who moved to Dartmouth in 1785-86 as a [[whaler]]. Its materials and construction methods closely resemble Quaker architecture in [[Nantucket]], such as the asymmetrical façade design and stone foundation.<ref name="heritagemuseum">[http://www.dartmouthheritagemuseum.ns.ca/quaker-house/ Dartmouth Heritage Museum]</ref> It is located at 59 Ochterloney Street, and is believed to have been built around 1785 or 1786. Today, it is a museum, furnished as a typical modest dwelling of a merchant of that time.<ref name="heritagemuseum"/><ref>[http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3066 Historic Places Canada]</ref>

===19th century===
Dartmouth was initially a sawmill and agricultural outpost of Halifax. In the mid-19th century, though, it grew, first with the construction of the [[Shubenacadie Canal]] and more importantly with the rise of successful industrial firms such as the [[Dartmouth Marine Slips]], the Starr Manufacturing Company, and the Stairs Ropeworks.

In 1873, Dartmouth was incorporated as a town, and a town hall was established in 1877.

===20th century===
In 1955, the town was permanently linked to Halifax by the [[Angus L. Macdonald Bridge]], which led to rapid urban growth.

Dartmouth's city hall was built in the early 1960s on the waterfront adjacent to the Alderney Ferry Terminal. The building was declared surplus and sold to Starfish Properties, and was to be redeveloped.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1465950-former-dartmouth-city-hall-gets-a-new-lease-on-life|title = SaltWire &#124; Halifax}}</ref>

On 1 January 1961, the Town of Dartmouth officially amalgamated with several neighbouring villages into the ''City of Dartmouth''.

The [[A. Murray MacKay Bridge]] opened in 1970, furthering commercial and residential growth.

The [[Dartmouth General Hospital]] officially opened on 14 January 1977, at 325 Pleasant Street. The hospital provides care to a [[catchment area]] of approximately 120,000 people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dartmouth General Hospital |url=https://www.nshealth.ca/locations-details/Dartmouth%20General%20Hospital |website=Nova Scotia Health |publisher=Nova Scotia Health Authority |access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref>

On April 1, 1996, the provincial government amalgamated all the municipalities within the boundaries of [[Halifax County, Nova Scotia|Halifax County]] into a single-tier regional government named the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). Dartmouth and its neighbouring city of Halifax, the town of [[Bedford, Nova Scotia|Bedford]] and the Municipality of the County of Halifax were dissolved. The city of Dartmouth forms part of the urban core of the larger regional municipality and is officially designated as part of the "capital district" by the Halifax Regional Municipality. At the time that the City of Dartmouth was dissolved, the provincial government altered its status to a separate community to Halifax; however, its status as part of the metropolitan "Halifax" urban core existed prior to municipal reorganization in 1996.

Dartmouth is still an official geographic name that is used by all levels of government for legal purposes, postal service, mapping, [[9-1-1]] emergency response, municipal planning, and is recognized by the Halifax Regional Municipality as a civic addressing community. The official place name did not change, due to the confusion with similar street names, land use planning set out by the former "City of Dartmouth", and significant public pressure. Today the same development planning for Downtown Dartmouth and the rest of the region is still in force, as well as specific bylaws created prior to April 1, 1996.