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Nova Scotia Tourism Region : Eastern Shore
Description From Owner:
- The first name was Wonpaak for 'still water', and the present name likely honours an early settler, but on the grant of 3,000 acres to Benjamin Green and others in 1765, the name used was Coal Harbour.
- Sidney Crosby: Sportswriters call him 'The Next One' Hockey superstar Sidney Crosby (1987-) was born in Cole Harbour. His father Troy was a goalie drafted by the Montreal Canadiens three years earlier, but he never made it to the NHL.
- At the age of 2½ Sidney was skating with his father. At 14 he played for the Dartmouth Subways, a major midget league team, and scored 217 points leading his team to 2nd place in the Air Canada Cup.
- While Canadian media was calling him 'The Next One,' the Crosbys sent Sidney to a Minnesota school where he played with Shattuck-St. Marys, scoring 72 goals and 162 points in 57 games and leading his team to the US National Championship.
- He was soon drafted into the NHL where he became the youngest player to win the Lester B. Pearson Award and the second-youngest to Wayne Gretzky to win the Hart Trophy.
- He is the youngest league scoring champion in North American professional sport history, winning the Art Ross Trophy at age 19, and the youngest NHL player to score 100 points.
- A banner showing the Pittsburgh Penguins captain hoisting the Stanley Cup hangs in the arrivals area of Halifax Stanfield International Airport.
- 'We're all so proud of him,' said Tom Ruth, president of the Halifax International Airport Authority.
- Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum: The museum is at 471 Poplar Drive in Cole Harbour, a tiny rural oasis in a bustling urban community. Cole Harbour originally was a prosperous market garden and dairy community serving Halifax.
- When urban expansion began muscling the community's agricultural heritage aside, the Cole Harbour Rural Heritage Society decided in 1973 to record and preserve as much as they could of the agricultural and natural heritage.
- They created the museum by moving the community's oldest house to a former farm to join a farmhouse, barns and other outbuildings.
- There are now heritage buildings, agricultural and household artifacts, farm gardens, animals, a gift shop and tea room.
- With permission from 'Nova Scotia Place Names' David E. Scott 2015
Address of this page: http://ns.ruralroutes.com/ColeHarbourDartmouth