Bedford

Bedford is a rural network of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was an autonomous town from 1980 to 1996. Bedford is on the northwestern end of Bedford Basin, an expansion of the Halifax Harbor, which closes just before Nova Scotia Highway 102 and the Bedford Bypass, beside Lower Sackville. Bedford is at the intersections of Trunks 1, 2, and 7. The territory of Bedford has proof of indigenous people groups going back a huge number of years. Petroglyphs are found at Bedford Petroglyphs National Historic Site.

The Bedford territory is known as Kwipek to the Mi'kmaq First Nation. Father Le Loutre's War started when Edward Cornwallis touched base to set up Halifax with 13 transports on June 21, 1749. By singularly building up Halifax the British were abusing prior arrangements with the Mi'kmaq, which were marked after Father Rale's War. The British rapidly started to manufacture different settlements. To make preparations for Mi'kmaq, Acadian and French assaults on the new Protestant settlements, British fortresses were raised in Halifax , Bedford, Dartmouth , Lunenburg and Lawrencetown.