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The Shubenacadie Canal Getting to Shubie Park Amherst Sydney The main enterance is at the Fairbanks Interpretive Centre. Located at The main Park entrance is at the Fairbanks Used by the native Mi’kmaq People for thousands of years, the Shubenacadie Interpretive Centre. Located at 54 Locks Truro waterway was carved out of bedrock by glaciers during the last ice age. 54 Locks Road, Dartmouth. Two kilometres from the junction of Highway Kentville Road, Dartmouth. Two kilometres Halifax Shubie Park Construction of the Shubenacadie Canal started in 1826 to provide a 111 and Route 318. from the junction of Highway 111 Yarmouth safe trade route to the . However, construction stopped in Bus Route 55 stops along Waverley Road. Ask your bus and Route 318. 1831 when the Shubenaccadie (sic) Canal Company went bankrupt. In 1854 the Inland driver for the Locks Road, Shubie Campground or Lake Navigation Company was formed and construction started on the canal once again. Charles Trail stop. Bedford Construction of 9 locks and 2 inclined planes connected a chain of 7 lakes and the 118 , enabling boats to travel from to the . The famous “deep cut” between Lake MicMac and Lake Charles, in what is now Shubie Park, 102 Contacts: ¤¡7 was the single most expensive and time consuming piece of work in the entire canal. It 107 Emergency 911 was a cut into the bedrock over a kilometre long and at least eight feet deep. The deep Bedford Halifax Regional Municipality Recreation and Shubenacadie Canal Commission cut section of the Canal includes two of the Canal locks. Information 311 Basin Shubie Park Police non-emergency 902.490.5020 111 partner for Summertime Outdoor Adventure Day Camps The Shubenacadie Canal opened in sections and operated between 1860 and 1870. ¤¡2 318 ¤¡7 Shubenacadie Canal Commission 902.462.1826 shubiecanal.ca ³ An exciting series of outdoor summer adventure camps in the heart of Dartmouth, Steam vessels hauled barges laden with goods along the system. The canal moved goods Shubie Campground 902.435.8328 shubiecampground.com Dartmouth Shubenacadie Park! Programming includes canoe adventures, map and compass needed for gold mining to Waverley which included machinery and coal from Dartmouth. H a Lumber, bricks, and granite from the Grand Lake area were also transported through the

207 ³ l discovery, living history like an early explorer, and environmental learning for Halifax if a canal. x Cole children and youth ages 6-14. Contact Recreation Programming at 902.490.4728 103 111 H Harbour a or visit halifax.ca/rec for more information. r By 1870, railways were able to transport goods faster and more cheaply than ships. The b o u 322 canal was used in the construction of the railway and – ironically - the low railway bridges r ³ that would ultimately prevent the passage of vessels and force its closure in 1870. 333 Eastern ³ The Trans Canada Trail runs through Shubie Park. Visit TCTrail.ca for more Passage 349 ³ information. The Shubenacadie Canal System is now a National Historic Civil Engineering site.

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