McNabs Island is the largest island in Halifax Harbour located in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. It played a major role in defending Halifax Harbour and is now a provincial park. The island was settled by Britons in the 1750s and later by Peter McNab, and McNab family members lived on the island until 1934.
Peter McNab, namesake of McNabs Island, Old Burying Ground
An anti-submarine net running between York Redoubt and McNabs Island.
Image: Mc Nabs Island
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Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, located in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Halifax largely owes its existence to the harbour, being one of the largest and deepest ice-free natural harbours in the world. Before Confederation it was one of the most important commercial ports on the Atlantic seaboard. In 1917, it was the site of the world's largest man-made accidental explosion, when the SS Mont-Blanc blew up in the Halifax Explosion of December 6.
Nautical chart of Halifax Harbour in the 1880s
Entrance to Halifax Harbour as seen from Georges Island
Sambro Island from the northwest
The barque Europa beside Georges Island in Halifax Harbour in 2004
