Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Shubenacadie Canal, Lock 5
Wellington, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- canal
- Year built
- 1828
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Notice of registration date
- 22 March 1996
- Civic address
- Grand Lake and Kings Road
- Community
- Wellington
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.86396, -63.62421
- File number
- Prov_file_208
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David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the important role played by this property in the Province's transportation history; and the historic engineering design demonstrated by Lock #5.
Character-defining elements
Character-Defining Elements of Lock 5 in the Shubenacadie Canal system relate to its use as a functioning lock and include:
- elements that connect water levels of Grand Lake and the Shubenacadie River;
- building materials of large blocks of cut granite, set in mortar;
- steel and cast iron gears and operating machinery;
- lock gates constructed of heavy timber with steel reinforcing.