Nova Scotia Archives
Chipman Family Papers - Planters of Cornwallis
"West view of Yarmouth"
The name Yarmouth was in use as early as 1759. In 1761, eighty colonists from Massachusetts settled here and formed a small community near the head of the bay. Yarmouth The Western Gateway of Nova Scotia F 5249/ Y28/ 1936]
Date: ca. 1819
Format: water colour
Artist: Joseph Brown Comingo
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Documentary Art 1979-147 no. 230