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Business View Magazine
The Municipality of the County of Cumberland
Hoping to become the world’s green energy capital
Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, occupies 1,650 square
miles on the northwestern part of the province. It is bound-
ed on its northeastern coast by the Northumberland Strait,
and its southwestern peninsula juts into the Bay of Fundy.
It was founded in 1759, and named for the third son of
King George II, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.
The county is rich in natural resources, and has a long in-
dustrial and agricultural heritage.
The Municipality of Cumberland is an administrative entity
composed of most of the county, minus the incorporated
towns of Amherst, Oxford, and Parrsboro. However, it does
include the Village of Pugwash, and recently, the Town of
Springhill, which filed for dissolution and was incorporated
into the municipality this past April.
Pugwash is a small fishing village of less than a thousand
souls, situated where the Pugwash River flows into the
Northumberland Strait. It became world famous over a
half century ago when it was the site of an international
conference of scientists and scholars from both sides of
the Iron Curtain, who came together to discuss the threat
of nuclear weapons. The 1957 symposium was hosted by
Pugwash’s native son, steel magnate, Cyrus Eaton at a
