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Near Channel-Port aux Basques in CensusDiv 3 - South Coast-Channel-Port auxBasques, Newfoundland and Labrador — The Atlantic Provinces (North America)
 

Port aux Basques - North Sydney

1898 - 100 - 1998

 
 
Port aux Basques - North Sidney Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Barry Swackhamer, July 2, 2014
1. Port aux Basques - North Sidney Marker
Inscription. English:
A century of ferry service between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
SS. Bruce first sailed from this port to North Sydney on 30 June 1898.

French:
En commemoration d’un siθcle de service traversier entre Terre-Neuve et la Novelle.
Le vapeur Bruce a quitte ce port ΰ destination de North Sydney, pour la premiθre fois le 30 juin 1898.

 
Erected 1998.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Waterways & Vessels. A significant historical date for this entry is June 30, 1898.
 
Location. 47° 34.866′ N, 59° 8.37′ W. Marker is near Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador, in CensusDiv 3 - South Coast-Channel-Port auxBasques. It is on Trans Canada Highway (Newfoundland and Labrador Route 1), on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Channel-Port aux Basques NL A0M 1C0, Canada. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Newfoundland and specifically Labrador’s Southwest Newfoundland. It is also in Atlantic Canada. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World,
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and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once a British colony and also the Viceroyalty of New France.


 
More about this marker. This marker is located at the ferry terminal at Channel-Port aux Basques.
 
Port aux Basques - North Sidney Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Barry Swackhamer, July 2, 2014
2. Port aux Basques - North Sidney Marker
Port aux Basques - North Sidney Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Barry Swackhamer, July 2, 2014
3. Port aux Basques - North Sidney Marker
The Channel-Port aux Basques Ferry Terminal image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Barry Swackhamer, July 2, 2014
4. The Channel-Port aux Basques Ferry Terminal
SS Bruce image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Unknown
5. SS Bruce
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on September 2, 2026. It was originally submitted on December 16, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California. This page has been viewed 1,100 times since then and 41 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on December 16, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
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