Editing Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (section)

===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>