Dartmouth Township

A particularly clear representation of the townships in Halifax County. As an aside, the Township of Dartmouth was seemingly “lost” around the time of “confederation”, which seems to have helped to spur the push for the incorporation of the Town of Dartmouth by 1873.

What remained of the township of Dartmouth seemingly reverted to “Halifax County”, an entity “neither a corporation nor an individual capable of instituting proceedings”, according to Rigby Q.C., barrister for Dartmouth, as recently as 1880.

The success of this case at the Supreme Court of Canada is mentioned in the Town’s Annual Report of 1886: https://cityofdartmouth.ca/annual-report-1886/