# Place-Names of the Province of Nova Scotia/H

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HACKETT (H.)—Cove and Village, formerly Hagget's Cove named after one of the first settlers, whose real name wasHaggart.,
HALIBURTON (P.)—Named in honor of Thomas Chandler Haliburton a native of Nova Scotia, who wrote extensively and well of Nova Scotia, was a member of the Nova Scotia Legislature and a Judge of the Supreme Court.
HALIBUT HEAD (Q.)—So named after the Halibut, a large species of flat fish which abound on the Nova Scotia coast.
HALIFAX—The Indian name was "Chebookt" meaning "Chief Harbor," or "Great Long Harbor." Halifax was known as Chebucto up to the year 1749. On the 18th day of July of that year it was called "Halifax" in honor of the Earl of Halifax, then President of the English Board of Trade, whose title was from the English city of that name. His name was George Dunk Montague He died in 1772. It is said that Lord Halifax, having no family and wishing to immortalize his name, sent Edward Cornwallis as Governor of Nova Scotia. Cornwallis arrived with 2576 immigrants in July 1749, and it was he who changed the name "Chebucto" to Halifax in honor of his patron.
It is interesting to note the probable derivation of the word "Halifax." The word means "Holy Hair" the name being accounted for by the fact that the head of a virgin who had been murdered was suspended from a tree in the neighborhood of the English city "Halifax."
Lord Halifax was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1761.
Halifax was declared a free port in 1817 and was incorporated in the year 1841. It became the capital of Nova Scotia in the year 1749, when the Provincial Headquarters were removed from Annapolis, which was capital or Provincial Headquarters from 1710 to 1749. Halifax County is divided into four townships, namely: Halifax, Dartmouth, Lawrencetown and Preston.
The north end of Halifax City in the early days was known as "Dutchtown" and the south and suburbs as "Irishtown."
In Halifax is Dalhousie College, named in honor of George Ramsay the ninth Viscount Dalhousie, who was Lt.-Governor of Nova Scotia 1816 and Governor of Canada 1820-28. The Earl was the founder of the college in the year 1818. Its Act of Incorporation was passed in 1821. University powers were created in ​1841. Closed for some years, but was re-opened and re-organized in 1863.
HALL HARBOR (K.)—This place was named after Captain Samuel Hall, who in 1779 piloted a privateering band of seventeen men from the revolting colonies in America to the place, and from here they conmitted a number of thieving raids on the settlers of the surrounding country.
HAMILTON CORNER (K.)—This place was at one time called "The Whalebone," and later "Jawbone Corner," owing to there being a gateway, with posts made from a whale's jawbone, near the place where the four roads meet. Later changed to "Hamilton's Corner," no doubt after a settler of that name.
HAMMONDS PLAIN (H.)—Named in honor of Sir Andrew Snape Hammonds, who was Lieutenant-Governor from 1781 to 1783.
HANDLEY MOUNTAIN (K.)—Named after an early settler. This place was settled mostly by disbanded soldiers.
HANTS COUNTY—In 1781, Windsor, Falmouth and Newport, with lands contiguous thereto, were detached from the county of Kings and made a separate county to be called the County of Hants. The name "Hants" which was, and is used, is in abbreviation of Hampshire. (The old English for Hampshire was Hantesshire hence the abbreviation). The name was probably suggested by the Loyalists from New Hampshire.
A new township was added in 1824, and named "Kempt" in honor of Sir James Kempt, the then Lieutenant-Governor of the Province.
Hants is divided into six Townships, viz: Windsor, Newport, Kempt, Falmouth, Douglas and Rawdon. This county contains 1179 square miles.
HANTSPORT (Hts.)—On the banks of the Avon River. The Indian name for this place was "Kakagwek," meaning "the place of dried meat." Elsewhere we find "Kakagwek" given as meaning "the place of dried fish." (See Hants).
HARBOR BOUCHE (Ant.)—See Bouche.
HARBOR LAKE (H.)—At one time called Black Duck Run, given its present name by Captain P. F. Shortland R. N., in 1864.
HARMONY (Q.)—Settled in 1821.
HARTLING (H.)—So named in 1912 after James Hartling the Postmaster.
​HAULOVER ISTHMUS (R.)—Near St. Peter's. So named because of its being the narrow strip of land over which they hauled their boats from or to the waters of St. Peter's Bay and the Bras d'Or Lakes.
HAUTE ISLAND (C.)—See Isle Haut.
HASKILL BROOK (Y.)—Named after an early settler Wm. Haskill, who came to Yarmouth from Beverley, Mass., in the year 1763 and settled near this brook.
HASTINGS (C.)—Formerly known as Porter Town, changed to Hastings in the year 1864 by an Act of Parliament. The name in honor of Warren Hastings, the celebrated English Statesman.
HATCH CREEK (D.)—So named after a first settler John Hatch.
HAVELOCK (D.)—Named in honor of Sir Henry Havelock, who distinguished himself in the Indian Mutiny and particularly at Lucknow in 1857.
HAWKESBURY (R.)—One of the four Townships of Richmond County, named in honor of Admiral Edward Hawke, an English Baron. (See Port Hawkesbury).
HAY COVE (R.)—See new name "Glenwood." The Indian name for this place was "Galnotek."
HEATHERTON (Ant.)—So named by an Act of Parliament in the year 1879.
HEBB MILLS, HEBB CROSS, HEBBVILLE (L.)—These places are all named after one of the first settlers of Lunenburg County, Mr. Adam Hebb, and his descendants.
HEBERT RIVER (C.)—Named after the French Courier du Bois Hebert (1749), who as a Lieutenant had charge of the fort at Hebert.
HEBRON (Y.)—The name Hebron Corner was given this settlement by Captain Landers, an estimable early Yarmouth settler. As the settlement extended beyond the Corner, the latter part of the name was left out.
The name is after a place in Palestine, the chosen land of Abraham. The word is Hebrew, meaning "friendship," or "association."
HECKMAN ISLAND (L.)—Named after a German family of ​first settlers, named Heckman. John Heckman of Lunenburg was a parliamentary representative from 1819 to 1847.
HECTOR POINT (V.)—A point near Grand Narrows probably so named after Mr. Hector F. McDougall, who lived nearby and was for years a parliamentary representative for Cape Breton County.
HELL BAY (L.)—Named, it is supposed, by a seaman who had an experience in its waters, which were turbulent enough to suggest the name of a thickly settled place without the confines of Nova Scotia.
HENNIGAR (Hts.)—Formerly named "Northfield." Changed a few years ago to "Hennigar" in honor of its first settler John Hennigar. The other first settlers were Laffins and Millers. The Brook was once known as Weir Brook.
HENRY ISLAND (I.)—The name given to outer Port Hood Island. It is sometimes wrongly called W. D. Smith's Island.
HERMAN ISLAND (L.)—The name Philip Herman appears as one of the original grantees of Lunenburg Township in 1761. This island is probably named after him or some of his descendants.
HERRING COVE (H.)—The Indian name for this place was "Moolepchugech" meaning "a deep chasm, valley or gorge."
HERRING COVE (Q.)—Now called "Brooklyn." An important fishing station, probably as early as 1635, as it is believed that Denys and Razilly had their establishment at this place about that time.
There is also a lake in Queens County of this name.
HERSEY RIVER (Y.)—Named so after a family of early settlers.
HIBERNIA (Q.)—Settled in the year 1820 by two Irishmen, and so named in honor of their home land.
HIGHFIELD (Hts.)—See Belmont.
HIGHLAND (D.)—The former name of this place was Mink Cove. Changed to the present name by an Act of Parliament passed in 1907.
HIGHLANDS (I.)—This place was formerly known as Cape Mabou. It received its present name, which was suggested by the hilly nature of the district, by an Act of Parliament in 1888.
​HILDEN (Col.)—The settlement formerly known as "Slab Town," "Clarkville," and "Johnston's Crossing," were united and given the name of Hilden by an Act of Parliament passed in 1895.
HILLFORD (Hts.)—So named by an Act of Parliament passed in 1895, changing it from "Cogmagum." (See.)
HILLGROVE (D.)—The former names of this place were "Digby," "Joggins" and also "Hainesville."
HILLSBOROUGH (I.)—Named after the Right Honorable Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State, 1769.
HILLSDALE (I.)—So named by an Act of Parliament in 1880.
HILTON POINT (Y.)—This place was named after its early settler Amos Hilton, who came from Massachusetts and settled there, about the year 1765.
HIRTLE HILL (L.)—Named after an early settler. One of the original grantees of Lunenburg was Jacob Hirtle, senior.
HOG ISLAND (A.)—About 1660 deeded from M. d'Aulnay to Jacob Bourgois, acquired by Governor M. de Brouillan in 1702. Called by the French "L'Isle aux Cochons" that is "Island of pigs."
HOPEWELL (P.)—Received its name after the name of the vessel which brought Alexander McNutt and his Ulster colonists to Colchester County in 1761.
HORSE SHOE COVE (L.)—This place is supposed to be between Bridgewater and Summerside, it is a miniature semicircular shaped harbor. It is the "Hufeisen Bucht" of Judge Haliburton in "The Old Judge."
HORTON BLUFF (K.)—The Indian name of this place was "Maktomkus" meaning the "black reef" or "black rocks."
HORTON (Lower) (K.)—The Indian name was "Umtaban" meaning "an overflowing flood." The name was suggested by the fact that before the dyke was built all communication with Long Island was cut off by the high tides.
HORTON TOWNSHIP (K.)—The Township of Horton was granted and formed in the year 1759. It is one of the four Township divisions of Kings County.
​HORTONVILLE (K.)—Was called Horton Landing. Changed to its present name by An Act of Parliament in 1897.
HOSIER RIVER (H.)—Sometimes known as "Osier River." Probably named after an early settler named Hosier
HOWARD ISLAND (Y.)—Named after one Howard, to whom it was granted in 1762.
HUBBARDS (H.)—The original Hubbard, for whom the place. was named, lived on Green Island, about 1800. One time known as Hubbards Cove. In 1905 by an Act of Parliament the word Cove was dropped.
HUBLEY (H.)—Cove in St. Margaret's Bay, also a lake and a Railway Station, named after a family of early residents. (See Seabright.)
HUNTER'S MOUNTAIN (V.)—This mountain is named after an early settler, John Hunter.
HUNT ISLAND AND POINT (Q.)—Settled in 1813 by Deacon Samuel Hunt, one of the original proprietors of Liverpool. The lands were granted to Hunt in 1788.
HUNTINGTON POINT (K.)—Named after some member of this Old Kings County family. Caleb Huntington came to this County from Connecticut and was one of its early settlers.