South Maitland, Nova Scotia

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South Maitland
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South Maitland
Location in Nova Scotia
Coordinates: 45°15′13″N63°28′22″W / 45.25361°N 63.47278°W / 45.25361; -63.47278
CountryFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
ProvinceFlag of Nova Scotia.svg  Nova Scotia
County Hants County
Municipality East Hants Municipality
Time zone UTC-4 (AST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-3 (ADT)
Canadian Postal Code
B0N
Area code 902
Telephone Exchange 883
NTS Map011E06
GNBC CodeCBJRA

South Maitland is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in East Hants Municipality in Hants County. [1] [2] The community was one of the stops on the Shubenacadie Canal system and the site of a number of 19th century shipyards including the yard that built the barque Calburga in 1890, the last large square rigger to sail under a Canadian flag. The village is best known for the historic bridge built over the Shubenacadie River by the Midland Railway, part of the Dominion Atlantic Railway in 1901. [3] Demolished in the 1990s, a surviving abutment of the railway bridge was retrofitted in 2006 by the Fundy Tidal Interpretive Centre as a lookoff and walking trail showcasing the tides of the Shubenacadie River. A decommissioned railway caboose is also preserved beside the trail. [4]

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  1. "Nova Scotia GeoNAMES". NovaScotia.ca. Nova Scotia Government. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  2. "Canadian Geographical Names Database". nrcan.gc.ca. Government of Canada. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  3. "South Maitland Bridge", Dominion Atlantic Railway Digital Preservation Institute
  4. "About us", Fundy Tidal Interpretive Centre Archived 2015-04-24 at the Wayback Machine

45°15′13″N63°28′22″W / 45.25361°N 63.47278°W / 45.25361; -63.47278 (South Maitland, Nova Scotia)