Edward Cornwallis
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Lieutenant-General Edward Cornwallis was a British Army officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he w
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1756
Cornwallis built Governor's House (1749). (Province House was later also built on this site and it is furnished still with his Nova Scotia Council table.)
The table first used by Edward Cornwallis and the Nova Scotia Council (1749), The Red Chamber of Province House
Fort Edward, named after Edward Cornwallis
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Halifax, officially the Halifax Regional Municipality, is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada. It
Edward Cornwallis
…next 17 years). He was then made Governor of Nova Scotia (1749–1752), one of the colonies in North America, and assigned to establish the new town of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Later Cornwallis returned to London, where he was elected as MP for Westminster and married the niece of Robert Walpole, Great Britain's first Prime…
Halifax Harbour Sunset Skyline, Nova Scotia
Halifax Public Gardens entrance
Lighthouse DSC01066 Peggy's Cove Lighthouse
Welsford Parker Monument at the entrance to the Old Burying Ground in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada