The Bras d'Or Lakes Scenic Drive is a scenic roadway on

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 Eng ...

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. ...

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Bras d'Or Lake Bras d'Or Lake (Mi'kmaq language, Mi'kmawi'simk: Pitupaq) is an irregular estuary in the centre of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. It has a connection to the open sea, and is tidal. It also has inflows of fresh water from rivers, ma ...

Routes

Numbered

* Highway 105 * Trunk 4 * Route 205 * Route 216 * Route 223

Named Roads

* Church Road * Georges River Road * Gillis Point Road * Hillside Boularderie Road * Kempt Head Road * Little Narrows Road * Long Island Road * Marble Mountain Road * Orangedale Road * St. Columbia Road * Steele Cross Road * Washabuck Road * West Bay Road

Communities

Baddeck Baddeck () is a village in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated in the centre of Cape Breton, approximately 6 km east of where the Baddeck River empties into Bras d'Or Lake. Local governance is provided by the rural municipality ...

* Boularderie Island *

Little Bras d'Or Little Bras d'Or is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton County on Cape Breton Island. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Cana ...

* Boisdale * Big Beach *

Bras d'Or Bras d'Or Lake ( Mi'kmawi'simk: Pitupaq) is an irregular estuary in the centre of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. It has a connection to the open sea, and is tidal. It also has inflows of fresh water from rivers, making the brackish ...

* Christmas Island *

Grand Narrows Grand Narrows ( gd, An Caolas Mór) (2001 population 15) is a community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. The community is the birthplace of the longest serving Premier of Nova Scotia, George Henry Murray. The Barr ...

Eskasoni The Eskasoni Mi'kmaw Nation is a band government of the Mi'kmaq Nation, located in Unama'ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia, Canada. As of 2021, Eskasoni has a membership of 4,675. Of this population, 3,973 live on-Reserve, and 667 live off-Reserve. ...

* East Bay *

Ben Eoin Ben Eoin (; gd, Beinn Eòin) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Ben Eoin lies on the East Bay of the Bras d'Or Lake and hosts an all season resort including a ski hill (Sk ...

* Irish Cove *

Chapel Island Chapel Island is a limestone outcrop that lies in the Leven estuary of Morecambe Bay in England, less than from the shoreline at Bardsea in the area known as Ulverston Sands. It is located at ( OS grid ref. SD 321759). It is one of the Islan ...

* St. Peter's *

Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...

* West Bay * Marble Mountain * Orangedale *

Whycocomagh Whycocomagh (''Why-cog-ho-mah''), is an unincorporated area on the eastern edge of the Municipality of the County of Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada. The population in 2001 was 854. The name derives from the Mi'kmaq language and relates to being n ...

* Bucklaw * Little Narrows *

Iona Iona (; gd, Ì Chaluim Chille (IPA: �iːˈxaɫ̪ɯimˈçiʎə, sometimes simply ''Ì''; sco, Iona) is a small island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland. It is mainly known for Iona Abbey, though there ...

* Washabuck * Nyanza

Parks

*Battery Provincial Park *Ben Eoin Provincial Park *Bras d'Or Lookoff and Picnic Park *Dalem Lake Provincial Park *Groves Point Provincial Park *MacCormack Provincial Picnic Park, *Whycocomagh Provincial Park

Bridges

Barra Strait Bridge The Barra Strait Bridge is a Canadian road bridge crossing the Barra Strait of Bras d'Or Lake, carrying Nova Scotia Route 223 between Iona, Victoria County, on the West side, and Grand Narrows, Cape Breton County (Cape Breton Regional Munici ...

*Crowdis Bridge * Seal Island Bridge

References

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