Lake Charles is a small lake in

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Halifax Regional Municipality Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348 ...

between the communities of Dartmouth and

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. It is situated between Port Wallace in the south and

Nova Scotia Highway 107 Highway 107 in Nova Scotia runs through the eastern suburbs of the Halifax Regional Municipality, from the Burnside Industrial Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth to an intersection with Nova Scotia Trunk 7, Trunk 7 in Musquodoboit Harbour, ...

in the North,

Nova Scotia Highway 118 Highway 118 is a short suburban freeway connecting (officially) Victoria Road via Woodland Avenue in Dartmouth with Highway 102 at Fall River, to the north in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The highway crosses the Historic Shubenacadie ...

in the west and

Nova Scotia Route 318 Route 318 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in the Halifax Regional Municipality and connects Dartmouth at Exit 6 of Highway 111 with Waverley at Trunk 2. It is also called "Waverley Road" and "Braemar ...

to the east. It is the summit of the

Shubenacadie Canal The Shubenacadie Canal is a canal in central Nova Scotia, Canada. It links Halifax Harbour with the Bay of Fundy by way of the Shubenacadie River and Shubenacadie Grand Lake. Begun in 1826, it was not completed until 1861 and was closed in 1871. ...

, where the level of the surface is 31 m above sea level. Located in the Shubenacadie watershed, it ultimately feeds into the

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. However, it also feeds into

Halifax Harbour Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, located in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Halifax largely owes its existence to the harbour, being one of the largest and deepest ice-free natural harbo ...

through the canal locks at

Shubie Park Shubie Park is a urban park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia maintained by the Halifax Regional Municipality. Heavily forested, Shubie Park is roughly linear in shape as it is bounded on the north and west by Highway 118 expressway and on the south ...

Lake Charles Trail

The Lake Charles Trail, part of the

Trans Canada Trail The Trans Canada Trail, officially named The Great Trail between September 2016 and June 2021, is a cross-Canada system of greenways, waterways, and roadways that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, Pacific to the A ...

, runs along the western side of the lake, from

to the Highway 107

overpass An overpass (called an overbridge or flyover in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries) is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that crosses over another road or railway. An ''overpass'' and ''underpass'' together form ...

at Route 318 in

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. The trail is approximately 4.39 km long, and has a crusher dust surface. The trail is used year-round and is maintained by the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Other Lake Charles in Nova Scotia

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References

Lake Charles TrailShubenacadie Canal
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Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax
Landforms of Halifax, Nova Scotia

Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*k ...

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