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Nova Scotia Trunk 19
Trunk 19 is part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's system of trunk highways. The road runs from Port Hastings (at the east end of the Canso Causeway) to a junction with the Cabot Trail at Margaree Forks on Cape Breton Island, a distance of . Most of the route is known as the Ceilidh Trail. From Port Hastings (near the town of Port Hawkesbury), Trunk 19 follows the western coastline of Cape Breton Island through Judique to the village of Port Hood, where it turns inland to the northeast through Mabou. From Mabou, the route continues back towards the coast at Inverness, then returns inland. At Southwest Margaree, Trunk 19 follows the Margaree River to the end of the road. Trunk 19 is still referred to locally as Route 19. Major intersections References {{NS Roads and Highways 019 Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Hastings, Nova Scotia
Port Hastings is a unincorporated settlement on Cape Breton Island, within the Municipality of the County of Inverness, Canada. The population in 2021 was 90. The community is located at the eastern end of the Canso Causeway on Cape Breton Island. It is named after Charles Hastings Doyle. History The community was previously known as Plaster Cove. The Inverness and Richmond Railway was built from coal mines in Inverness to a loading dock at Point Tupper in 1901. The construction of the Canso Causeway which opened in 1955 saw the community become a railway junction after the Truro-Sydney mainline of Canadian National Railways (CNR) was diverted from the railcar ferry terminals at Mulgrave and Point Tupper. The CNR line to Inverness was eventually abandoned in the 1980s, although the Truro-Sydney mainline continues to operate under the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway. The construction of the Canso Causeway also brought what would become the Trans-Canada Highway (H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia
Port Hawkesbury (Scottish Gaelic: ''Baile a' Chlamhain'') is a municipality in southern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. While within the historical county of Inverness, it is not part of the Municipality of Inverness County. History The end of glaciation began 13,500 years ago /sup> and ended with the region becoming largely ice free 11,000 years ago. The earliest evidence of Palaeo-Indian settlement in the region follows rapidly after deglaciation. /sup> Several thousand years ago, the territory of the province became known a part of the territory of the Mi'kmaq nation of Mi'kma'ki. Mi'kma'ki includes what is now the Maritimes, parts of Maine, Newfoundland and the Gaspé Peninsula. The town of Port Hawkesbury is in the traditional Mi'kmaw district of Unama'ki. In 1605, French colonists established the first permanent European settlement in the future Canada (and the first north of Florida) at Port Royal, founding what would become known as Acadia. /sup> Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleur-de-lis Trail
The Fleur-de-lis Trail is a scenic roadway located on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. It is approximately long and runs along the southeastern part of the island through an Acadian region, with a spur route to and encircling Isle Madame, for a total distance of . Routes * Trunk 4 * Trunk 22 * Route 206 * Route 247 * Route 320 * Route 327 *Trout Brook Road *Fourchu Road *St. Peters Fourchu Road Communities * Port Hawkesbury * Arichat * Isle Madame * D'Escousse * Lennox Passage * Grandique Ferry * Louisdale * Grande Anse * L'Ardoise * St. Peters * Lower St. Esprit * Fourchu * Gabarus Lake * Marion Bridge * Trout Brook * Albert Bridge * Catalone * Louisbourg Parks *Two Rivers Wildlife Park *Mira River Provincial Park *Lennox Passage Provincial Park Lennox Passage Provincial Park is a small picnic and beach park on the shores of Lennox Passage (waterway), Lennox Passage on the North Shore of Isle Madame (Nova Scotia), Isle Madame on Cape Breton Island, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaree River
The Margaree River (''Abhainn Mhargaraidh'') is a river on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The northeast branch of the river derives from the watershed of the Cape Breton Highlands, while the Southwest Margaree flows northeast from Lake Ainslie. The two branches join at Margaree Forks. The river then flows north to empty into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at Margaree Harbour, Nova Scotia. The river is 120 km in length and drains an area of 1,375 km². The Margaree has been well known for a century for its trout and Atlantic salmon sport fishery, that draws anglers from near and far. Fishing is highly regulated now and is restricted to fly fishing only, with barbless hooks, in the main stem of the river. Famed American angler and Atlantic salmon conservationist Lee Wulff caught his first salmon on a fly on the Margaree in 1933. The gravel bars of the upper Northeast Margaree provide spawning grounds for Atlantic salmon; its steep valleys provide habitat for American ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Margaree, Nova Scotia
The Municipality of the County of Inverness is a county municipality on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It provides local government to about 17,000 residents of the historical county of the same name, except for the incorporated town of Port Hawkesbury and the Whycocomagh 2 Miꞌkmaq reserve, both of which are enclaves. Public services are provided in the areas of recreation, tourism, administration, finance, and public works. History The county was named after Inverness in the Scottish Highlands from where many immigrants came. The boundaries were defined when Cape Breton Island was divided into districts in 1823. In 1996, the county was amalgamated into a single municipality with the exception of Port Hawkesbury. Coal deposits exist between Port Hastings and Cheticamp. The Inverness and Richmond Railway, from Port Hastings to Inverness, was built around 1900 to transport coal. Coal mining was unprofitable, and small scale local operations ended in 1992. The railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inverness, Nova Scotia
Inverness (Scottish Gaelic: ''Baile Inbhir Nis'') is a Canadian rural community in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Nova Scotia. It is about an hour's drive north from the Canso Causeway and about an hour south from Cape Breton Highlands National Park. In 2021, its population was 1,228, down 1.6% from 2016. History Coal-mining Located on the west coast of Cape Breton Island fronting the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Inverness sits astride a small coal seam which was exploited from the late 19th century to the mid-late 20th century, beginning with a mine opened by William Penn Hussey of Massachusetts. Before Hussey industrialized the coal operations of the town it was exploited by the locals, but without means to export the coal it was never mined in earnest. Hussey was able to secure financial backing from European investors and soon dredged a portion of the sand dunes to connect MacIsaac's Pond to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. He had some piers and wharves built, laid a small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabou, Nova Scotia
Mabou is an unincorporated settlement in the Municipality of the County of Inverness on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The population in 2011 was 1,207 residents. It is the site of The Red Shoe pub, the An Drochaid Museum, and Glenora Distillers History The name Mabou is thought to derive from Mi'kmaq name ''Malabo'', shortened from ''Malabokek'', meaning "place where two rivers meet" (the Mabou and Southwest Mabou rivers). It is also thought to mean "Shining Waters" or "Sparkling Waters". In Canadian Gaelic it is called An Drochaid, meaning "The Bridge". In 1841, the first resident Roman Catholic priest, ''Maighstir Alasdair Mòr'' (Fr. Alexander MacDonald, 1801-1865) was assigned to Mabou, where he was seen as, "a veritable chieftain and patron of poets." Fr. MacDonald was also a very near kinsman to many local Gaelic-speaking pioneers, as he was 8th in descent from Iain Dubh MacDhòmhnaill, the 1st Tacksman of Bohuntine for Clan MacDonald o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Hood, Nova Scotia
Port Hood is an unincorporated place in the Municipality of the County of Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is an administrative centre and a service centre for the surrounding area. It is also the site of a registered historic place, Peter Smyth House. Port Hood Beach is known for its warm waters and for the nearby Port Hood Station Provincial Park. History The Miꞌkmaq called it Kag-weam-kek, meaning sandbar. The first European colonists, the French, called it Juste-au-Corps, meaning waistcoat. The French quarried stone for the Fortress of Louisbourg and built ships at the site. After the English took over Acadia, it was renamed for naval commander Samuel Hood. Port Hood experienced an economic boom from 1880 to 1910, with coal mining, fishing and marine trade. During the first half of the 1900s, it was served by the Inverness and Richmond Railway. A fire in July 1942 destroyed much of the town's business district. Geography It is located on Trunk 19 (the "Ceilidh Trai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judique, Nova Scotia
Judique is an unincorporated place within the Municipality of the County of Inverness on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the site of the Celtic Music Interpretive Centre and a stop on the scenic Ceilidh Trail. The origin of the name, pronounced , is uncertain though likely of French origin. It is called Siùdaig in Scottish Gaelic. Judique presents itself as a collection of buildings with Highway 19 as its main street. It is on the western coast of Cape Breton Island, on the edge of St. George's Bay in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The area was settled by migrants from the Scottish Highlands in the late 1700s. The nearby Carpenter Gothic styled St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church, built in 1841, is a testimony to the Scots' desire to carve out a church-centered community in the wilderness. In 1967, it was the site of the first Gaelic-language mass held in North America. Judique is also the site of the Judique Historical Society Building a Maritime Vernacul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceilidh Trail
The Ceilidh Trail is a scenic roadway in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. This coastal route along the Gulf of St. Lawrence is located on the west coast of Cape Breton Island in Inverness County and runs from the Canso Causeway in Port Hastings to Margaree Harbor where it intersects with the Cabot Trail. The region's Scottish heritage dates back to the beginning of the 19th century. ''Cèilidh'' () means "party". Routes * Trunk 19 * Route 219 Communities *Inverness, home of the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music *the Mabou Highlands *Lake Ainslie, the largest natural fresh water lake on Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Island (french: link=no, île du Cap-Breton, formerly '; gd, Ceap Breatainn or '; mic, Unamaꞌki) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The island accounts for 18. ... * Judique * Port Hood References External links Marconi Trail - Accommodations & Restaurants Scenic travelway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabot Trail
The Cabot Trail is a scenic highway on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a loop around the northern tip of the island, passing along and through the Cape Breton Highlands and the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. It is named after the explorer John Cabot who landed in Atlantic Canada in 1497, although modern historians agree his landfall likely took place in Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland and not Cape Breton Island. Premier Angus L. MacDonald wanted to re-brand Nova Scotia for tourism purposes as primarily Scottish and, as part of this effort, created both the names Cape Breton Highlands and Cabot Trail.Ian MacKay and Robin Bates. ''In the Province of History''. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press. 2010. Construction of the initial route was completed in 1932. The western and eastern sections follow the rugged coastline, with views of the ocean. The southwestern section passes through the Margaree River valley before passing along Bras d'Or Lake. The route is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (french: link=no, île du Cap-Breton, formerly '; gd, Ceap Breatainn or '; mic, Unamaꞌki) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia's total area. Although the island is physically separated from the Nova Scotia peninsula by the Strait of Canso, the long Canso Causeway connects it to mainland Nova Scotia. The island is east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with its western coast forming the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait. The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic Ocean with its eastern coast also forming the western limits of the Cabot Strait. Its landmass slopes upward from south to north, culminating in the highlands of its northern cape. One of the world's larger saltwater lakes, ("Arm of Gold" in French), dominates the island's centre. The total population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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