East Bay, Nova Scotia

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East Bay
Unincorporated community
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St. Mary of the Assumption Church and the East Bay Sandbar and Beach.
East Bay, Nova Scotia
Coordinates: 46°0′46.58″N60°23′3.45″W / 46.0129389°N 60.3842917°W / 46.0129389; -60.3842917
CountryFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Province Flag of Nova Scotia.svg Nova Scotia
Regional municipality Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Time zone UTC-4 (AST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-3 (ADT)
Forward sortation area
B1J
Area codes 902 and 782
NTS Map011K01
GNBC CodeCAKIX

East Bay [1] is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, [2] located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island. It is situated on the south side of the East Bay of the Bras d'Or Lake, from which it gets its name. [3]

East Bay has a Catholic church, St. Mary of the Assumption Church, with mass every day at 10am and Saturday at 4pm. The community was the site of the College of East Bay (1824-1829) which was moved to Arichat and later Antigonish where it became St. Francis Xavier University. St FX later opened a branch in Cape Breton which became the University College of Cape Breton, later Cape Breton University. Until recently, East Bay had two elementary schools, reduced to one, and now both closed. [4]

References

  1. "Geographical Names of Canada - East Bay" . Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  2. Fergusson, C. Bruce (1967). Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia. Halifax, NS: Public Archives of Nova Scotia. pp. 182–183. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  3. "Nova Scotia Geographical Names Database entry for "East Bay, County of Cape Breton" (includes map)". Government of Nova Scotia. Archived from the original on November 27, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
  4. "Cape Breton board to close 17 schools". Cape Breton Post. Retrieved 3 June 2018.