The Musquodoboit Valley ( pronounced Mus-ko-dob-bit with a slight emphasis on the "dob") is a Canadian valley and region in northeastern Halifax County, Nova Scotia.
Administratively located in the Halifax Regional Municipality's Musquodoboit Valley & Dutch Settlement planning area, the picturesque Musquodoboit River flows through the valley.
The northeastern end of the valley is agricultural and the valley is framed by the Wittenburg Ridge and Glenmore Mountain along the Halifax-Colchester county border to the north and a series of low hills to the south. The southern half of the valley passes through dense forests growing in glacially-scoured terrain through to the mouth of the river at Musquodoboit Harbour. The western edge of the region includes communities that are considered part of the commutershed for the urban area of the Halifax Regional Municipality.
The upper part of the Musquodoboit Valley comprises the largest farming district in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The annual Halifax County Exhibition is held each summer in the valley farming community of Middle Musquodoboit. Another important local industry is forestry.
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“To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)