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The county town of Cumberland county, and port of entry in Novia Scotia, Canada, at the head of Chignecto Bay and on the Intercolonial railway, 138 m. from Halifax. Pop. (1901) 4964. It is situated in a rich agricultural and mining district, and contains county and railway buildings and numerous mills andfactories. It is the distributing centre for the surrounding district, and exports railway carriages, engines, boilers, stoves, &c.