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Nova Scotia Route 329
Route 329 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in Lunenburg County and connects East River at Trunk 3 with Hubbards at Trunk 3. It runs around the perimeter of the Aspotogan Peninsula. Communities *East River **East River Point * Deep Cove * Upper Blandford *Blandford *Bayswater Bayswater is an area in the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and ... * Aspotogan * Northwest Cove * The Lodge *Birchy Head * Fox Point * Hubbards Parks * Swissair 111 Memorial *Bayswater Beach Provincial Park *East River Provincial Park See also * List of Nova Scotia provincial highways References Nova Scotia provincial highways Roads in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia {{NovaScotia-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Scotia Department Of Transportation And Infrastructure Renewal
The Department of Public Works of the Government of Nova Scotia is responsible for transportation, communications, construction, property, and accommodation of government departments and agencies in the province. Kim Masland is its current minister. The department has over 2,000 employees responsible for implementing its mandate. History The department was established in 1918 as the Department of Highways. In 1926, the Provincial Highway Board was abolished, and the Department of Highways took up responsibility for road building, traffic management, as well as tourism. In 1939, the department assumed responsibility for government property, and was renamed Department of Highways and Public Works. It was renamed Department of Transportation in 1979. It was renamed several times thereon, to Transportation and Communications (1987); Transportation and Public Works (1996), when it absorbed functions of the former Department of Supply and Services; and Transportation and Infrastructu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Blandford, Nova Scotia
Upper Blandford is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Chester Municipal District on the Aspotogan Peninsula on the Lighthouse Route (Nova Scotia Route 329 Route 329 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in Lunenburg County and connects East River at Trunk 3 with Hubbards at Trunk 3. It runs around the perimeter of the Aspotogan Peninsula. Communities *E ...). ReferencesUpper Blandford on Destination Nova Scotia Communities in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia {{LunenburgNS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Nova Scotia Provincial Highways
This is a list of numbered highways in the province of Nova Scotia. Arterial (100-series) highways A 100-series highway is a designation applied to a highway that can be a controlled-access expressway, Super-2, or fully divided freeway. The designation can also be applied in some cases to sections of uncontrolled access roads which are deemed strategically important and which will be upgraded in the future to controlled-access. Trunk Highways Nova Scotia's original arterial highway number system had route number signs in the same shape as the U.S. Highway route number signs. These signs are now used for Trunk routes. Former, "missing", Trunk routes were largely downgraded to Collector Routes in 1969. Collector Highways Scenic Routes References {{Canadian highways Nova Scotia provincial highways Highways A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Point, Nova Scotia
Fox Point is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located on the Aspotogan Peninsula and is part of the Chester Municipal District. It is accessed via the Lighthouse Route (Nova Scotia Route 329). The community may have been named after the British abolitionist politician Charles James Fox (1749–1806). History The Indigenous Mi'kmaq people are believed to have had a migratory cycle, moving to the Fox Point area during summer, and then returning inland to Shubenacadie during winter. Today, the Fox Point community includes a wharf and a Seventh-day Adventist The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbat ... Church. References External links Fox Point on Destination Nova Scotia {{coord, 44, 37, 18.31, N, 64, 3, 30.72, W, name=Fox Point,, Nova Scot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lodge, Nova Scotia
The Lodge is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Chester Municipal District on the Aspotogan Peninsula. Its only significant road is Nova Scotia Route 329, on the Lighthouse Route. History Charles and George Verge were brothers who were the first settlers of the Lodge (c. 1832). They arrived in the area from Liverpool, Nova Scotia Liverpool is a Canadian community and former town located along the Atlantic Ocean of the Province of Nova Scotia's South Shore (Nova Scotia), South Shore. It is situated within the Region of Queens Municipality, which is the local governmen .... Their father immigrated as a New England Planter from Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts to Liverpool Nova Scotia (c. 1779). References External links The Lodge on Destination Nova Scotia Communities in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia {{LunenburgNS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Cove, Nova Scotia
Northwest Cove is a cove on the St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, and the community on Aspotogan Peninsula that surrounds it. Administratively Northwest Cove is a General Service Area of the Chester Municipal District, and as such includes the areas also known as Southwest Cove and Coleman's Cove. Northwest Cove is on the Lighthouse Route (Nova Scotia Route 329). Several scenes from the television show ''Haven Haven or The Haven may refer to: * Harbor or haven, a sheltered body of water where ships can be docked Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Haven (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter), from the novel series * Haven (comics), from the ''X-Men ...'' were shot in the Cove. References External links Northwest Cove on Destination Nova Scotia Communities in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia {{LunenburgNS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aspotogan, Nova Scotia
Aspotogan () is a small fishing community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Chester Municipal District on the Aspotogan Peninsula. There is a public wharf in Aspotogan Harbour. Aspotogan is at the head of Aspotogan Harbour, which gets its name from the Mi'kmaq ''Ashmutogun'' or ''Ukpudeskakun'' meaning "block the passageway" or "where the seals go in and out". Transportation Aspotogan is on the Lighthouse Route (Nova Scotia Route 329 Route 329 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in Lunenburg County and connects East River at Trunk 3 with Hubbards at Trunk 3. It runs around the perimeter of the Aspotogan Peninsula. Communities *E ...). References External links Aspotogan on Destination Nova Scotia Communities in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia {{LunenburgNS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayswater, Nova Scotia
Bayswater is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Chester Municipal District on the Aspotogan Peninsula in Lunenburg County on the Lighthouse Route (Nova Scotia Route 329). The community is home to Bayswater Beach Provincial Park, Swissair 111 Memorial, and All Saints Anglican Church. History German settlers who first settled were Richard and Knickle who came from Lunenburg. Settled prior to 1767. An early immigrant to Bayswater was James Boutilier from Montbéliard, eastern France. He had nine children; the first was born in Bayswater in 1862. The village is probably named after Bayswater in England, an area of west London in the City of Westminster. It is a residential district located three miles (4.8 km) west-northwest of Charing Cross and borders the north side of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. Bayswater was initially named Sandy Beaches. Swissair 111 A Swissair Flight 111 memorial site is located in Bayswater. Bayswater is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blandford, Nova Scotia
Blandford is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Chester Municipal District on the Aspotogan Peninsula on the Lighthouse Route (Nova Scotia Route 329). Blandford originally included the present day communities of New Harbour, Upper Blandford, and Deep Cove. History Origins Between 1767–1769, the English from the west country settled Blandford, naming the community after Blandford Forum. One of the first settlers of Blandford was George Casper Zinck (c. 1764–), the son of a German-speaking immigrant. George first lived in Lunenburg and then after the American Raid on Lunenburg (1782) during the American Revolution, George moved to nearby Rose Bay before finally settling in Blandford at the age of 20 (1784). He married and then had his first child the following year. Along with English and German settlers, there were also Jewish settlers to Blandford. More likely at least some of the Jewish family Levy in this part of Nova Scotia are d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Cove, Nova Scotia
Deep Cove is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Chester Municipal District on the Aspotogan Peninsula on the Lighthouse Route (Nova Scotia Route 329 Route 329 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in Lunenburg County and connects East River at Trunk 3 with Hubbards at Trunk 3. It runs around the perimeter of the Aspotogan Peninsula. Communities *E ...). In an address to the Empire Club of Canada (1950), Cyrus S. Eaton was introduced with the following: :Mr. Eaton also owns and operated a 3,000-acre farm near Chester, Nova Scotia, and an 870-acre farm at Northfield, Ohio, specializing in the raising of pure bred and registered Scotch Shorthorn cattle. I rather suspect that of all his undertakings Mr. Eaton has a very special interest in farming because our invitation to address this meeting reached him at his farm in Nova Scotia and, in his very welcome and very prompt reply accepting our invitatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East River, Nova Scotia
East River is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Chester Municipal District on the Aspotogan Peninsula on the Lighthouse Route at the junction of (Nova Scotia Route 329) and Trunk 3. History The village was known as East River Point, and before that Indian Point. It got its name from the river because it is on the eastern side of Mahone Bay. of land there reserved for John, Joseph and Thomas Paul, who were Mi’kmaq on September 3, 1793. At East River, David Floyd received a grant on August 18, 1815, and John Wheaton received in April 1817. John Booth's grant was dated September 22, 1899. (Places, p. 190) All these people are unknown. Cook's Beach was named for Ephraim Cook a direct descendant of Francis Cook of the Mayflower. He (Ephraim) settled with his family on land in Lower Melbourne near Cooks Beach (named in his honor). He was one of the first settlers in Yarmouth. Who the following landmarks are named after is unknown: Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
