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Government House was constructed between 1832 and 1834 as a viceregal residence for the lieutenant governor of the then British colony of Prince Edward Island. The land, a parcel of 100 acres (0.40 km 2 ) known as Fanning Bank or Fanning's Bank , was in 1789 set aside by Lieutenant Governor Edmund Fanning as Crown land , with the specific ...
Richard Brown House 32 Brown Street Sydney Mines NS ... Nova Scotia , Sydney municipality ... Mitchell Island Union Church 2645 Point Edward Highway
The Maritimes is currently represented in the Canadian Parliament by 25 Members of the House of Commons (Nova Scotia – 11, New Brunswick – 10, Prince Edward Island – 4) and 24 Senators (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick – 10 each, Prince Edward Island – 4). This level of representation was established at the time of Confederation when the ...
Site Date(s) Designated Location Description Image Alberton Court House [3] [4]: 1878 (completed) 1981 Alberton: A simple wooden hall evocative of a pioneer church, now used as the local museum; representative of the six circuit courthouses, all built according to a standard plan after the passage of Prince Edward Island's County Courts Act in 1873
Government House, with its setting on Sydney Harbour, has a garden area of five hectares (twelve acres) and is located south of the Sydney Opera House, overlooking Farm Cove. It was designed in a romantic Gothic revival style – castellated , crenellated , turreted and is decorated with oil portraits and the coats of arms of its successive ...
Government House of Nova Scotia is the official residence of the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, and is located in Halifax. [4] It stands in the provincial capital at 1451 Barrington Street; unlike other provincial Government Houses in Canada, this gives Nova Scotia's vice-regal residence a prominent urban setting, though it is still surrounded by gardens.
To accommodate the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists, Cape Breton was created as a separate colony from Nova Scotia (as was New Brunswick) and DesBarres served as the lieutenant governor of Cape Breton from 1784 to 1787. He laid out the original plan of the capital, Sydney. [9] He was later governor of Prince Edward Island from 1804 to 1812.
Heading northbound with Prince Edward Island in view. The bridge is a two-lane toll bridge that carries the Trans-Canada Highway between Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island (at Route 1) and Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick (at Route 16). It is a multi-span balanced cantilever bridge with a post-tensioned concrete box girder structure.