Editing Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (section)

==Economy==
===Past===
In the early 19th century, there was a [[molasses]] plant.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Shannon Baxter |title=Tales of Mott's Chocolate |url=https://www.dartmouthheritagemuseum.ns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DHM-Gazette_-Spring-2019Final.pdf |website=Dartmouth Heritage Museum Society |access-date=3 June 2023}}</ref> ''John P. Mott & Co.'' was established by John Prescott Mott sometime in 1844, and they made soap as well as other products.

On 11 June 1963, [[Prince Bertil]] inaugurated the [[Volvo Halifax Assembly]] factory in Dartmouth. Between 1963 and 1998, the plant built almost 350,000 cars.<ref>{{cite web |title=Production |url=https://volvoamazonpictures.se/wordpress/production/ |website=volvoamazonpictures.se |access-date=20 May 2023 |location=Dartmouth and Halifax, Canada}}</ref>

Dartmouth also had the first [[IKEA]] store in Canada and the Americas, which operated between 1975 and 1988.<ref>{{cite news|title=Company news: IKEA|work=The Globe and Mail|date=11 March 1988|page=B8|quote=North America's first IKEA store is closing. The Swedish furniture chain, whose Dartmouth, N.S., store opened in 1975, said it is shutting the doors on the store and warehouse in six months, putting 50 people out of work.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=For the love of Ikea|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2012/08/03/for_the_love_of_ikea.html|access-date=8 May 2014|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=Aug 3, 2012}}</ref> IKEA returned to Dartmouth in 2017 in a new location, billed as IKEA Halifax.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ikea-opens-halifax-dartmouth-1.4309016|title=4,000 customers line up for Ikea Halifax grand opening|work=[[CBC News|CBCNews.ca]]|date=September 27, 2017|accessdate=November 18, 2020}}</ref>

===Present day===
Dartmouth is a economically diverse community. The community has the [[Burnside, Nova Scotia|Burnside Business Park]], [[Dartmouth Crossing]], and many other small business dotted throughout the community.