page_title: Point Tupper, Nova Scotia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Point Tupper, Nova Scotia / History
caption_attribution_description: Point Tupper Generating Station, Nova Scotia Power Corporation, Port Hawksbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
context_page_description: Point Tupper is a rural community located in Richmond County, Nova Scotia on the Strait of Canso in western Cape Breton Island.
context_section_description: Extensive land grants in the area were acquired in 1863 by Henry Nicholas Paint, of Belle Vue, Canso, member of Parliament for Richmond (Nova Scotia electoral district), who started to promote a township on the site, a project which he continued doggedly until his death in 1921. According to Paint, the site was named by Sir James Kempt after Ferdinand Brock Tupper, the Guernsey historian.
caption: The Point Tupper Generating Station viewed from the north.
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