Lingan, Nova Scotia
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Lingan (from the French word “l’indienne") ( Mi'kmawi'simk: ''Milesk'', meaning "place of many resources") is a Canadian
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community in
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's
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. Its population in 2021 was 229. Lingan is located on the shore of the
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, northeast from
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, east of New Waterford and northwest of
Glace Bay Glace Bay (Scottish Gaelic: ''Glasbaidh'') is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton. Formerly an incorporated ...
. The community occupies a headland which forms the north side of Lingan Bay, to the south, and forms the western shore of Indian Bay, to the east. Lingan was an active
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area from the early 19th century until 1999 when the last
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mines in the community operated by the
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, or DEVCO, were closed. The most recent mines in Lingan operated by DEVCO included the Lingan Colliery and the adjacent Phalen Colliery. They were served by the
Devco Railway The Devco Railway was a Canadian railway. Devco Railway operated as an unincorporated department within the Coal Division of the Cape Breton Development Corporation, also known as DEVCO; as such there is no formally incorporated entity named ...
, formerly the Sydney & Louisburg Railway. In the late 1970s, the Nova Scotia Power Corporation constructed the
Lingan Generating Station The Lingan Generating Station is a 620 Megawatt, MW Canada, Canadian coal-fired Power station, electrical generating station located in the community of Lingan, Nova Scotia, Lingan in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Lingan is oper ...
to generate electricity from coal. This plant is still in operation and currently uses coal imported from the
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which is shipped to Sydney and hauled by the
Sydney Coal Railway The Sydney Coal Railway is a Canadian short-line railway operating in the eastern part of Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia. SCR operates from the international coaling piers on Sydney Harbour in Sydney to the Lingan Generating Station, a coal ...
. Lingan has a long history of Irish heritage with some of the most prominent names being Burke, Handrigan, Hall, Hanrahan/ Handrahan, Kelly, Laffin, Miller, and Rockett many of these families have roots going back 7 generations and they continue to live in the community. During the mid-first decade of the 21st century nine large
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s were erected in Lingan along the cliffs on the Northern Head. During World War2 the US army had an observation post here to be on the outlook for German U-boats who were confirmed to have been in the immediate vicinity stalking merchant marine convoys out of Sydney Harbour.


Demographics

In the
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conducted by
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, Lingan had a population of 229 living in 101 of its 106 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 261. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.


See also

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List of communities in Nova Scotia This is a list of communities in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as an unincorporated area, unincorporated settlement inside or outside a municipality ...


References


Lingan on Destination Nova Scotia
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