enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. North Sydney, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sydney,_Nova_Scotia

   North Sydney was settled around 1785 by European and Loyalist settlers. [11] The original Mi'kmaq name for the area, Kweso'mkiaq, means "sandy point.". It emerged as a major shipbuilding centre in the early 19th century, building many brigs and brigantines for the English market, later moving on to larger barques, and in 1851 to the full-rigged Lord Clarendon, the largest wooden ship ever ...

3. Nova Scotia Highway 105 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia_Highway_105

   Highway 105 in Nova Scotia represents the Cape Breton Island leg of the Trans-Canada Highway.It runs from the Port Hastings Rotary just east of the Canso Causeway in Port Hastings to the Marine Atlantic ferry terminal in North Sydney, representing a distance of 142 kilometres (88 mi).

4. Trans-Canada Highway - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Highway

   From North Sydney, a 177-kilometre (110 mi) ferry route, operated by the Crown corporation Marine Atlantic, continues the highway to Newfoundland, arriving at Channel-Port aux Basques, whereby the Trans-Canada Highway assumes the designation of Highway 1 and runs northeast for 219 km (136 mi) through Corner Brook, east for another 352 km (219 ...

5. Google Street View in Canada - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View_in_Canada

   Canada's laws regarding privacy differ from those of the United States. Images of the streets in Canada were taken early on by Immersive Media Company, the contractor used by Google at the time that took most of the early images. But it would be a long time before Street View would be seen in Canada, and Street View in several other countries ...

6. Google Maps - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps

   Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta) and public transportation.

7. Nova Scotia Highway 125 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia_Highway_125

   The highway was built in the late 1950s - early 1960s and extended from North Sydney to Point Edward, but branched off in Point Edward and continued along Nova Scotia Route 305 then Trunk 5 until Sydney River. When Highway 125 bypassed the Trunk 5 sections of 125 in the late 1960s - early 1970s it became a controlled access highway for a lot of ...

8. Sydney Mines - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Mines

   Sydney Mines (Mi'kmawi'simk: Klmuejuapskwe'katik; Scottish Gaelic: Mèinnean Shidni) is a community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1784 and incorporated as a town in 1889, Sydney Mines has a rich history in coal production although mining activity has now ceased.

9. Sydney, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney,_Nova_Scotia

   Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, was incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolved on 1 August 1995, when it was amalgamated into the regional municipality.