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Where did most of Edward Cornwallis’s settlers come from?
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Skyline of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
When Edward Cornwallis founded the fortified town of Halifax in 1749, he arrived with approximately 2,500 settlers, the majority of whom came from England.1