Strait of Canso
The Strait of Canso[1] (also Gut of Canso or Canso Strait, also called Straits of Canceau or Canseaux until the early 20th century) is a strait located in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It divides the Nova Scotia peninsula from Cape Breton Island.
It is a long thin channel approximately 27 kilometres long and averaging 3 kilometres wide (1 km at its narrowest). The strait connects
The strait is extremely deep (200+ feet) with two major communities at
An account of early settlement in the area is given in the letters of local resident Henry Nicholas Paint (1830-1921), Member of Parliament for Richmond county and merchant, whose father Nicholas secured valuable land grants and settled in a stone-built house at Belle Vue in 1817.[2] Port Hawkesbury, at first known as Ship Harbour, emerged as a shipbuilding and boatbuilding port on the Strait in the 19th century with firms such as H.W. Embree and Sons producing distinctive fishing boats that came to be known as "Canso Boats" after the Strait.
References
- ^ "Strait of Canso". Geographical Names Board of Canada. Archived from the original on August 17, 2011.
- ISBN 0-9546056-0-8.
External links
- Media related to Strait of Canso at Wikimedia Commons
- Strait of Canso - Economic Development Studies (online collection of studies of the Strait of Canso area)