Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Fort Petrie
New Victoria, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- site
- Year built
- 1939
- Decade built
- 1930-1939
- Notice of registration date
- 22 November 1999
- Civic address
- 3479 New Waterford Highway
- Community
- New Victoria
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.24982, -60.15299
- File number
- Prov_file_242
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 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)
- 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
the historically significant role played by these fortifications in the defence of Sydney Harbour during World War II, and the associations with the Allied effort to protect vital North Atlantic shipping routes during that period.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the fortification at Fort Petrie include:
- location of the fort within Sydney Harbor and across from Chapel Point Battery;
- all remnants of the temporary and permanent gun emplacements, underground, gun watch and artillery store, powerhouse, topping gun and bren gun emplacements, the searchlight and the C.D.X. (communications) tower.
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, and facing Sydney Harbor;
- clapboard exterior on the one and one half storey, gable roof extension;
- concrete, three storey, conical roofed, octagonal tower;
- two sets of clerestory windows, with awnings, on the tower facing Sydney Harbor;
- third storey windows extending around the tower.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.