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The Chignecto Marine Transport Railway (sometimes referred to as the Chignecto Ship Railway or Baie Verte Ship Railway) is a historic Canadian portage...

The Isthmus of Chignecto is an isthmus bordering the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia that connects the Nova Scotia peninsula with...

serve as the southern end of the Chignecto Ship Railway - had it been completed. Designed by Henry Ketchum, the ship railway would have been one of the most...

Railway Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad Chignecto Ship Railway Huntsville and Lake of Bays Transportation Company Nosbonsing & Nipissing Railway White...

Lower Tidnish on the Tidnish River. Tidnish Bridge is home to the Chignecto Ship Railway Keystone Bridge and would have been the Baie Verte terminus. Tidnish...

Victoria's response Ethnologist crashes Dogribs' three-week muskox hunt Chignecto Ship Railway would shorten voyages of eastern New Brunswick, P.E.I. and other...

his most ambitious project, the Chignecto Marine Transport Railway, a portage railway crossing the isthmus of Chignecto from the Bay of Fundy to the Gulf...

1914. Chignecto Ship Railway - a portage railway was begun across the Isthmus of Chignecto in 1888, in lieu of a ship canal. Ships were to be pulled along...

becomes a tidal estuary at the community of Tidnish Bridge where the Chignecto Ship Railway constructed a large stone masonry bridge across it. At Tidnish Bridge...

Company, Limited began construction of the Chignecto Ship Railway in the 1880s across the Isthmus of Chignecto with its western terminus in the Cumberland...

Sackville is in the Mi’kmaq district of Siknikt (to which the place name Chignecto may be traced), which roughly comprised Cumberland, Westmorland and part...

beginning with the 1000 ton barque Chignecto in 1874 and finishing with the tern schooner J. L. Ralston in 1919. Eatonville ships were noteworthy enough to attract...

contestable as the line had to cross the Cobequid Mountains and the Isthmus of Chignecto where options were limited by the local topography. In New Brunswick,...

between France and Britain, with an informal border on the Isthmus of Chignecto. In an effort to limit British expansion into continental Acadia, the...

53 after a long illness. New Brunswick provincial archives *Obituary, Chignecto Post, April 28, 1892 [http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=32953 The Canadian...

Navy and later served as a civilian research vessel. She is now a museum ship located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the last surviving Flower-class corvette...

Edward Island). Other exports went by sea from Minas Basin to Isthmus of Chignecto or to the mouth of the Saint John River, carried in Acadian vessels by...

the next three years working on the aborted construction of the Chignecto Ship Railway in Canada. Fitzmaurice left Baker in 1892 and joined London County...

Rivières (J269) HMCS Truro (J268) Bay-class minesweeper, 1951–1953, 1955–1956 HMCS Chignecto (MCB 160) HMCS Fundy (MCB 159) HMCS Gaspé (MCB 143) HMCS Trinity (MCB...

fort built during Father Le Loutre's War and located on the Isthmus of Chignecto (in the modern-day community of Fort Lawrence). Despite the British Conquest...