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List Of Protected Areas Of Nova Scotia
This is a list of protected areas of Nova Scotia. National Parks National parks of Canada are protected natural spaces throughout the country that represent distinct geographical regions of the nation. Under the administration of Parks Canada, a government branch, national parks allow for public enjoyment without compromising the area for future generations, including the management of Canadian wildlife and habitat within the ecosystems of the park. There are two formal national parks in Nova Scotia, with one managed as a reserve. * Cape Breton Highlands National Park * Kejimkujik National Park - this park is composed of two sections. The main park is inland, with a seaside adjunct for day use only located near Liverpool. * Sable Island National Park Reserve Canadian Heritage Rivers The Canadian Heritage Rivers System is a program administered by the federal, provincial and territorial governments to conserve river heritage. * Shelburne River * Margaree River-Lake Ainsli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Sable Island
Sable Island (french: île de Sable, literally "island of sand") is a small Canadian island situated southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and about southeast of the closest point of mainland Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic Ocean. The island is staffed year round by three federal government staff, rising during summer months when research projects and tourism increase. Notable for its role in early Canadian history and the Sable Island horse, the island is protected and managed by Parks Canada, which must grant permission prior to any visit. Sable Island is part of District 7 of the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia. The island is also a protected National Park Reserve and an Important Bird Area. History Early history The expedition of Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes explored this region in 1520–1521 and they were among the first Europeans to encounter the island. It is likely that he named the island "Fagunda" after himself. An island called ''Fag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Shubenacadie () is a village located in Hants County, in central Nova Scotia, Canada. As of 2021, the population was 411. The name for the Mi'kmaw territory in which present-day Shubenacadie is located and the origin of its name is the Mi'kmaw word ''Sipekne'katik'', which "place abounding in groundnuts" or "place where the wapato grows." Historically, the Sipekne'katik region was a large stretch of territory that covered central Nova Scotia. History Father Louis-Pierre Thury sought to gather the Mi'kmaq of Peninsular Nova Scotia into a single settlement around Shubenacadie as early as 1699. Not until the Dummer's War between the New France-aligned Wabanaki Confederacy and English New England from 1722–1725, however, did Antoine Gaulin, a Quebec-born missionary, erect a permanent mission at Shubenacadie (adjacent to Snides Lake and close to the former Residential school). He also made seasonal trips to Cape Sable, LaHave, and Mirlegueche. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax County, Nova Scotia
Halifax County ( gd, Siorrachd Halifax, french: Comté de Halifax, links=no) is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The Municipality of the County of Halifax was the municipal government of Halifax County, apart from the separately incorporated towns and cities therein. The municipality was dissolved in 1996, together with those town and city governments, in their amalgamation into Halifax Regional Municipality. History Deriving its name from George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716–1771), Halifax County was established by order-in-council on August 17, 1759. The boundaries of four other counties – Annapolis, Kings, Cumberland and Lunenburg – were specifically defined at that time, with Halifax County comprising all the part of peninsular Nova Scotia that was not within their limits. Following the Seven Years' War, Cape Breton Island was formally annexed to Nova Scotia. For a time it formed part of Halifax County. The boundaries of Halifax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chignecto, Nova Scotia
Chignecto is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cumberland County on the Isthmus of Chignecto The Isthmus of Chignecto is an isthmus bordering the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia that connects the Nova Scotia peninsula with North America. The isthmus separates the waters of Chignecto Bay, a sub-basin of the Bay of Fun .... References Chignecto on Destination Nova Scotia Communities in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia General Service Areas in Nova Scotia {{CumberlandNS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brule, Nova Scotia
Brule () is a rural community located in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Located on Amet Sound an embayment of the Northumberland Strait 6 kilometres east of the village of Tatamagouche near the county boundary, the community is situated on the southern shore of Brule Harbour opposite Brule Point. Fossils Brule was the site of numerous fossil discoveries dating to 290 mya, in the Early Permian Period. Examples of these finds are now housed at the Creamery Square Heritage Centre in nearby Tatamagouche. The Brule fossil forest is composed of the ancient tree species: ''Walchia sp.'' The forest contains fallen logs, as well as about 90 in-situ-(standing) tree trunks, and leaflets or branch fossils. The 'Brule Forest' is the only example of standing trees, or in-situ tree-trunks of ''Walchia''. Four-footed, tetrapod animal fossil trackways are also found in the fossil rich rocks. See also *Walchia *Mistaken Point, older fossils in Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rush Lake Nature Reserve
Liscomb Game Sanctuary is a conservation area that straddles the border of Halifax Regional Municipality and Guysborough County in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Route 374 runs north–south through the sanctuary. Within the sanctuary are two nature reserves and parts of two wilderness areas. The game sanctuary Administered by the Department of Natural Resources of the Government of Nova Scotia, Liscomb game sanctuary was established in 1928 as an area where hunting and trapping were prohibited. Its boundaries have been revised since then, but it now covers an area of . Since 1996 there has been a short hunting season in which only muzzle-loading firearms are permitted. The Alder Ground wilderness area and the Boggy Lake wilderness area partially overlap the sanctuary, resulting in 844 hectares being designated as both sanctuary and wilderness area. However, a quarter of the reserve is privately owned, largely by pulp industry interests. The sanctuary is ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panuke Lake
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan's Cove, Nova Scotia
Duncans Cove is a small rural community on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean on the Ketch Harbour Road ( Route 349), 19 kilometers from Halifax. The community is located beside Chebucto Head, the prominent coastal headland. History The original Mi'kmaw name for Duncans Cove is Uni'knitujk (translated as "Little Portage"). Duncans Cove was first settled by Europeans as a small fishing community. The first recorded settler in Duncans Cove was Simon Duntoyn in 1752. Other families followed including the Crab, Full, Leonard and McNab families. John McNab was granted in 1859. The cove was named after Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan who defeated the Dutch at the Battle of Camperdown. Overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour made it a strategic part of Halifax's defense system in the 18th century. The Camperdown Signal Station, was built a few miles northward next to nearby Portuguese Cove in 1797, the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liscomb Game Sanctuary
Liscomb Game Sanctuary is a conservation area that straddles the border of Halifax Regional Municipality and Guysborough County in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Route 374 runs north–south through the sanctuary. Within the sanctuary are two nature reserves and parts of two wilderness areas. The game sanctuary Administered by the Department of Natural Resources of the Government of Nova Scotia, Liscomb game sanctuary was established in 1928 as an area where hunting and trapping were prohibited. Its boundaries have been revised since then, but it now covers an area of . Since 1996 there has been a short hunting season in which only muzzle-loading firearms are permitted. The Alder Ground wilderness area and the Boggy Lake wilderness area partially overlap the sanctuary, resulting in 844 hectares being designated as both sanctuary and wilderness area. However, a quarter of the reserve is privately owned, largely by pulp industry interests. The sanctuary is ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Lake Wilderness Area
The White Lake Wilderness Area is a wilderness area located in Nova Scotia, Canada, in Halifax Regional Municipality. Several trails, all maintained by the Musquodoboit Trailways Association, pass through it; Gibraltar Rock Loop, White Lake Wilderness Trails, the Musquodoboit Rail Trail, the Bayers Lake Loop, and the Admiral Lake loop. Access to much of the remainder of the wilderness area is possible only by canoe, requiring multiple portages to get to some of the more remote lakes. The Wilderness area was established in the early 1990s as a commitment to protect certain areas of Nova Scotia that displayed unique terrain, fauna and/or flora. In the case of the White Lake Wilderness Area, this flora and fauna is rugged, lake-strewn, conifer forest. Inside the wilderness area are some 350-million-year-old bare granite ridges and knolls, White Spruce and Balsam Fir forests, with some groves of 100-year-old hemlock and the occasional large White Pine. Hardwoods, including White Bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waverley–Salmon River Long Lake Wilderness Area
The Waverley - Salmon River Long Lake Wilderness Area is a provincial wilderness area located about 20 kilometers east of Dartmouth Nova Scotia, Canada. Geographical description The wilderness area represents the Eastern Shore Granite Ridge, one of Nova Scotia's many natural areas. It features a rugged wilderness of lakes, rivers, and barren granite hills in the south. In the north, the bedrock is quartzite and slate, and the terrain is much less hilly. Some of the hills found in the wilderness area reach over 100 meters tall, and Jack Pine (an uncommon tree in Nova Scotia) grows in abundance on the hills. The wilderness area features pockets of old-growth Red Pine, White Pine, and hemlock. Due to the hilly nature of the terrain, much of the old-growth softwood forest is well-drained. The valleys of the wilderness area, which are much wetter, feature Black Spruce and Balsam Fir, and the occasional Red Maple or White Birch grows amongst the softwoods. Part of the watershed that f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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