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Marine Atlantic operates ferries across the Cabot Strait on two routes: North Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador; North Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador; The 96-nautical-mile (178 km) Port aux Basques route is operated year-round.
Sydney Harbour [1] (Mi'kmawi'simk: L'sipuktuk) is the 10-mile long Y-shaped inlet of the Atlantic, oriented southwest-northeast on the northeast shore of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. At its upper reaches, the harbour forks to form two arms: the Northwest Arm and the South Arm. The South Arm is fed upstream by the Sydney River.
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 ...
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).
The Marine Atlantic terminal at North Sydney is the terminal for large ferries traveling to Channel-Port aux Basques and seasonally to Argentia, both on the island of Newfoundland. Point Edward on the west side of Sydney Harbour is the location of Sydport, a former navy base (HMCS Protector) now converted to commercial
Channel-Port aux Basques is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of Newfoundland fronting on the western end of the Cabot Strait.A Marine Atlantic ferry terminal is located in the town which is the primary entry point onto the island of Newfoundland and the western terminus of the Newfoundland and Labrador Route 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) in the province.
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Marine Atlantic ferry terminal in North Sydney (continues as NL 1) • Trans-Canada Highway • Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell Way 1970: current Ferry connection to Newfoundland and Labrador. Hwy 106 (TCH) 19.4: 12.1 Hwy 104 near New Glasgow: Northumberland Ferries terminal in Caribou (continues as PE 1) • Trans-Canada Highway