Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia


Middle Sackville is a suburban community located in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality. The community was named after George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville.

Geography

Middle Sackville is located immediately north of Lower Sackville and south of Upper Sackville. Middle Sackville is located approximately north of Downtown Halifax.

History

Prior to European colonization, this area was inhabited by the Mi'kmaq. As a result of its unincorporated status until 1996, Middle Sackville and adjacent unincorporated communities such as Lower Sackville and Upper Sackville did not benefit from appropriate planning and are an example of urban sprawl. The boundaries for the three Sackville communities were "officially" defined in 2013 by HRM and areas that in the past were informally called Lower Sackville were changed to Middle Sackville. Boundaries were based on historic accounts of the areas.
Middle Sackville was the site of an early black community in the area of Maroon Hill. The Maroons were blacks brought in from Jamaica to help with the building of the Halifax Citadel and other capital works. The Maroons did not settle permanently and were later relocated to Freetown by the British.