Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Chapel Point Battery Site
Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- site
- Year built
- 1939
- Decade built
- 1930-1939
- Builder
- E.G.M. Cape Construction Company
- Notice of registration date
- 29 July 1993
- Civic address
- Church Street and Amber Drive
- Community
- Sydney Mines
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.24407, -60.21174
- File number
- Prov_file_175
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3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sydney, Canada. Coal Resources of the World. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it played a vital role as a direct guardian of the entrance to Sydney Harbour during the Second World War and because structurally, with its massive construction and such details as deeply placed magazines, it is unique among Canada's wartime coastal defences.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the fortification at Chapel Point include:
- location of the fort within Sydney Harbour and across from Fort Petrie;
- all remnants of the gun emplacements and underground magazines with escape shafts.
Character-defining elements of the battery observation post include:
- placement of the tower on the fortification site set back from the gun emplacements and the underground magazines, and facing Sydney Harbour;
- the concrete, four storey tower.
Nearby in the register
- Richard Brown Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Old Sydney Mines Post Officepublicunder 1 mi
- CN Train Stationmuseum1 mi
- Fort Petriesite3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.