Blacketts Lake
Blacketts Lake is a lake and community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. The town is in the Sydney River watershed, of which the lake forms the headwaters. The lake (and its tributary rivers) is home to the northernmost known population of Yellow lampmussel. Characteristics The water in the upper Sydney River watershed is alkaline. Flow in Blacketts Lake is imperceptible except at a road bridge and causeway on Blacketts Lake Road. During winter, the lake tends to freeze except for areas of fast flow near the bridge and the mouths of brooks. History Blacketts Lake is named after Walter Blackett. Walter's father, William Blackett, born in London, England, of the Blackett family from North England came to Canada with his wife and two sons John and Walter in 1789, accompanied by a secretary of the British Government to purchase lumber for the ship yards of England. William Blackett is the founder of the nearby mining town of Glace Bay. The Blackett Fami ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native English-speakers, and the province's population is 969,383 according to the 2021 Census. It is the most populous of Canada's Atlantic provinces. It is the country's second-most densely populated province and second-smallest province by area, both after Prince Edward Island. Its area of includes Cape Breton Island and 3,800 other coastal islands. The Nova Scotia peninsula is connected to the rest of North America by the Isthmus of Chignecto, on which the province's land border with New Brunswick is located. The province borders the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, and is separated from Prince Edward Island and the island of Newfoundland by the Northumberland and Cabot straits, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Cape Breton Regional Municipality (often referred to as simply "CBRM") is the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's second largest municipality and the economic heart of Cape Breton Island. As of 2016 the municipality has a population of 94,285. The municipality was created in 1995 through the amalgamation of eight municipalities located in Cape Breton County. The region is home to a significant concentration of government services, social enterprise and private sector companies, including the Canadian Coast Guard College, Cape Breton University, NSCC Marconi campus, and New Dawn Enterprises. The rural areas of the municipality continue to host resource industries such as agriculture, fishing, mining, and forestry. CBRM is host to many cultural landmarks and institutions such as the historic Savoy Theatre, the Celtic Colours International Festival, the Cape Breton Centre for Craft, the Highland Arts Theatre, and Holy Angels Arts & Cultural centre, currently undergoing a $12-milli ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sydney River
The Sydney River is a short river located in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Historically, it was also referred to as the Spanish River from the 18th century Early modern France, French name for its estuary, Spanish Bay (Nova Scotia), Baie d’Espagnols. It separates the communities of Coxheath, Nova Scotia, Coxheath and Westmount, Nova Scotia, Westmount, on the north bank of the river, from Howie Centre, Sydney River, Nova Scotia, Sydney River, and Sydney, Nova Scotia, Sydney on the south and east banks. Sydney River rises in Blacketts Lake and runs to its mouth, between the Westmount shore near Amelia Point and Battery Point on the Sydney shore, at the South Arm of Sydney Harbour, draining a drainage basin, watershed of 140 km south of the crest of the Coxheath Hills. The river is an estuary for the last below the "Sydney Steel Corporation, Sysco Dam" in the community of Sydney River, Nova Scotia, Sydney River. The dam was const ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yellow Lampmussel
''Lampsilis cariosa'', the yellow lampmussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. Its natural habitat is rivers. Distribution and conservation status This species is found in Canada and the United States. It lives in New Brunswick and in Nova Scotia in Canada, where the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has listed it as a species of special concern. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk The List of Wildlife Species at Risk currently has more than 800 entries for Canadian wild life species considered vulnerable; including 363 classified as endangered species, —190 threatened species, —235 special concern, and 22 extirpated ( ... as being a species of special concern in Canada.COSEWIC. 2005Canadian Species at Risk Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 27. References cariosa Bivalve ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Causeway
A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels, England, which dates from the Neolithic age. Timber causeways may also be described as both boardwalks and bridges. Etymology When first used, the word ''causeway'' appeared in a form such as "causey way" making clear its derivation from the earlier form "causey". This word seems to have come from the same source by two different routes. It derives ultimately, from the Latin for heel, ''calx'', and most likely comes from the trampling technique to consolidate earthworks. Originally, the construction of a causeway utilised earth that had been trodden upon to compact and harden it as much as possible, one layer at a time, often by enslaved bodies or flocks of sheep. Today, this work is done by machines. The s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Lakes In Nova Scotia
This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia. Cape Breton Island All Four Counties * Bras d'Or Lake Cape Breton Regional Municipality * Anse aux Cannes Pond *The Barachois *Bear Cove Pond *Bear Gulch Ponds * Beaverdam Pond *Belle Lake *Bennetts Pond * Big Pond *Blacketts Lake * Bluff Lake * Boom Pond * Boutellier Lake * Bray Lake *Buscombe Lake *Campbells Pond * Canoe Lake *Catalone Lake *Cavanaghs Lake *Cochran Lake * Copper Lake *Cranberry Pond *Cusack Lake *Danny MacDonalds Lake * Deadman Lake *Dixon Lake *Dixons Lake *Ducker Lake *Dumaresq Lake * Ferguson Lake *Fiddlers Lake *Fieldings Lake * First Dodds Lake * French Village Lake *Gabarus Lake * Goose Lake * Grants Hill Lake *Grants Old Lake * Gull Lake *Hardys Lake *Little Ferguson Lake *Little MacLeod Lake *Lower MacLeod Lake * MacInnis Lake * MacIntyre Lake *MacIsaacs Lake * MacLeod Lake *MacMullin Lake * MacPherson Lake *Marsh Lake * Shibinette Lakes *Slatterys Lake *Stew ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lakes Of Nova Scotia
This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia. Cape Breton Island All Four Counties * Bras d'Or Lake Cape Breton Regional Municipality * Anse aux Cannes Pond *The Barachois *Bear Cove Pond *Bear Gulch Ponds * Beaverdam Pond *Belle Lake *Bennetts Pond * Big Pond *Blacketts Lake * Bluff Lake * Boom Pond * Boutellier Lake * Bray Lake *Buscombe Lake *Campbells Pond * Canoe Lake *Catalone Lake *Cavanaghs Lake *Cochran Lake * Copper Lake *Cranberry Pond *Cusack Lake *Danny MacDonalds Lake * Deadman Lake *Dixon Lake *Dixons Lake *Ducker Lake *Dumaresq Lake * Ferguson Lake *Fiddlers Lake *Fieldings Lake * First Dodds Lake * French Village Lake *Gabarus Lake * Goose Lake * Grants Hill Lake *Grants Old Lake * Gull Lake *Hardys Lake *Little Ferguson Lake *Little MacLeod Lake *Lower MacLeod Lake * MacInnis Lake * MacIntyre Lake *MacIsaacs Lake * MacLeod Lake *MacMullin Lake * MacPherson Lake *Marsh Lake * Shibinette Lakes *Slatterys Lake *Stew ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |