Havre Boucher is a community in
Antigonish County
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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".
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Description
The village takes its name from "Havre Boucher", a natural harbour that opens onto St. George's Bay to the north. The community has expanded from its original setting on the west side of the harbour to now encompass the communities of
Auld's Cove, Cape Jack, East Havre Boucher, West Havre Boucher,
Frankville and
Linwood Linwood may refer to:
Places
Many of the place names for Linwood come from the presence of linden trees. Australia
*Linwood, South Australia
* Linnwood, Guildford, 11-35 Byron Road, Guildford, New South Wales
Canada
* Linwood, Ontario
* Linwood, ...
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Havre Boucher is largely
rural
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and largely dependent upon the
fishing
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industry and as a service centre for the surrounding area.
Formerly an incorporated village, offering its residents political control through an elected governing body known as a "village commission" which operated under the auspices of the Nova Scotia Municipal Services Act, its status was dissolved in 2018.
History
Construction of the
Canso Causeway
The Canso Causeway (''Cabhsair Chanso'' in Gaelic) is a rock-fill causeway crossing the Strait of Canso, connecting Cape Breton Island by road to the Nova Scotia peninsula. Its crest thickness is , carrying the two vehicle traffic lanes of th ...
, which opened in 1955, saw the
Canadian National Railway
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CN i ...
mainline from
Truro
Truro (; kw, Truru) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its ...
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Sydney
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being diverted from Linwood to an alignment north through Havre Boucher and Cape Jack, following the
Strait of Canso to the causeway. Prior to that time, the railway ran from Linwood to
Mulgrave where a ferry service operated to
Point Tupper. Havre Boucher saw the construction of a large railway yard, which remains in operation today by the
Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway
The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway is a short line railway that operated in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. CBNS operated () of main line and associated spurs between Truro in the central part of the province to Point Tuppe ...
.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Havre Boucher had a population of 281 living in 128 of its 137 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 309. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
References
External links
Village of Havre Boucher - official websiteHavre Boucher in "Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia"
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Communities in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia
Designated places in Nova Scotia