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Hwy 125 east / Main Street – Sydney, Glace Bay, Louisbourg, Sydney Mines: Signed as Exit 20E (east) and 20W (west); exit 1 on Hwy 125: North Sydney: 141.8: 88.1: 21: Route 305 (Queen Street) – North Sydney, Sydney Mines: North Sydney Ferry Terminal: Cabot Strait: Marine Atlantic ferry to Channel-Port aux Basques (year-round) and Argentia ...
At 30,285 GT, Atlantic Vision was the largest ship in Marine Atlantic fleet [11] and the largest ferry in North America. On May 21, 2010, Marine Atlantic announced that the company had agreed to charter two vessels from the Stena Line to replace the aging "Gulfspan" class vessels MV Caribou and MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood .
Caribou was designed and commissioned by CN Marine in the early 1980s and was the culmination of years of research into effective icebreaking ship designs. [3] The resulting hull design which Caribou and Joseph and Clara Smallwood were built to is called "Gulfspan", named in part after the Gulf of St. Lawrence .
North Sydney ferry wharf (also known as High Street wharf [1]) is located on the northern side of Sydney Harbour serving the Sydney suburb of North Sydney. In June 2022, a replacement wharf opened to the left of the original wharf, with upgraded facilities.
Marine Atlantic ferry to North Sydney. ... Channel-Port aux Basques ferry terminal: 892: 554 (1) ... Contact Wikipedia; Code of Conduct;
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.
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
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 ...