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The Glace Bay Heritage Museum, or the Old Town Hall, is located in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.The building, constructed in 1901, served as the town hall, billing centre, court, council chamber, fire station, police office, and jailhouse, before roughly 1989, when it was vacated and fell into disrepair as Glace Bay had joined the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Coal mine, Glace Bay, NS, 1930 Schooners, Glace Bay, 1914. Glace Bay was once a coal mining town. In 1860, the Glace Bay Mining Company was formed and it operated two mines. The first large colliery, the Hub Shaft, opened in 1861. Large-scale mining commenced in 1893 after exclusive mining rights were granted to the Dominion Coal Company.
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New Aberdeen in Nova Scotia New Aberdeen (named after Aberdeen in Scotland ) is a community that is part of the former town of Glace Bay in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia , located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island .
Bridgeport on Destination Nova Scotia 46°12′42.46″N 60°0′7.83″W / 46.2117944°N 60.0021750°W / 46.2117944; -60.0021750 ( Bridgeport , Nova This Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia location article is a stub .
Trunk 28 is part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's system of trunk highways. The route runs from Sydney to Glace Bay, a distance of 36 kilometres (22 mi). [1]From near downtown Sydney, Trunk 28 takes Victoria Road northward through the Whitney Pier neighbourhood, continuing along Sydney Harbour through South Bar, New Victoria and Victoria Mines to New Waterford.
Pit Pony is a 1999 CBC television series which tells the story of small-town life in Glace Bay, on the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1904. The plot line revolves around the lives of the families of the men and boys who work in the coal mines.
The Miners Museum is located in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.The main building of the museum contains an exhibit area dedicated to the history of coal mining in Cape Breton. Underneath the museum is the Ocean Deeps Colliery which is a coal mine that visitors can tour with retired miners as gu