Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Tidnish Dock Site
Tidnish, Cumberland, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- site
- Year built
- 1891
- Decade built
- 1880-1889, 1890-1899
- Notice of registration date
- 17 January 1985
- Civic address
- Rt. 366 at Tidnish Cross Roads
- Community
- Tidnish
- County
- Cumberland
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.99579, -64.00881
- File number
- Prov_file_36
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Cumberland, 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 Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kent, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 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
to ensure that the evidence of one of Nova Scotia's most ambitious engineering projects will be recognized and retained for future generations.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Tidnish Dock include:
- remnants of the dock including rock structures from the northern terminal of the ship railway (seen at low tide);
- remnants of the dock including wooden pilings and the slipway built to bring ships out of the water on the railcar cradle (seen at low tide);
- scenic view of the Northumberland Strait.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.