ref References reflist External links http www.straitofcansostudies.ca Strait of Canso Economic Development Studies online collection of studies of the Strait of Canso area coord 45 35 50 N ... Scotia Canso Category Antigonish County, Nova Scotia Category Guysborough County, Nova Scotia Category ... Ocean Category Geographic regions of Nova Scotia NovaScotia geo stub fr D troit de Canso it Stretto di Canso ja ru sv Cansosundet uk ... more details
Canso can refer to several different things Canso, Nova Scotia , a small fishing town in eastern Nova Scotia , Canada . Canso Causeway , a rock fill causeway connecting Cape Breton Island to mainland Nova Scotia, Canada Canso crater is a crater on Mars which was named after the Nova Scotian town. Canso song , a troubadour form PBY Canso , a World War II era patrol bomber flying boat flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force. Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation CANSO , the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation Strait of CansoCanSo Clothing A line of Designer Tee s created by Frank Caruso, aka Frankie CanSo . disambig de Canso pt Canso desambigua o ... more details
?sid 280427&sc 145 title Canso Canal closing early this year for renovations last King first ... 08 24 ref Further reading The Canso Causeway s History and Impact http www.museevirtuel virtualmuseum.ca ... Canso Canal information from the Canadian Coast Guard coord 45 38 53 N 61 24 50 W display title name Canso Canal Category Ship canals Category Canals in Nova Scotia Category Transportation in Inverness ... more details
in Nova Scotia , Canada . The causeway crosses the Strait of Canso , connecting Cape Breton Island by road ... thumb left ICR rail ferry Scotia provides service across the Strait of Canso ca. 1903 In 1880, the Intercolonial ... thumb Proposed location for cantilever bridge across the Strait of Canso ... the Strait of Canso in 1903 an ambitious proposal the Strait of Canso bridge proposed a convert ... nshist15.html Construction The Canso Causeway was built at a narrow location on the Strait of Canso ... of Nova Scotia Angus L. MacDonald . The Strait of Canso was permanently blocked on Friday, December ... of the Strait of Canso caused significant environmental damage from the enormous changes ...Image CansoCauseway.jpg 200px thumb right Canso Causeway from Cape Breton Island Image CapeBretonEntrance.jpg 200px thumb right The Canso Canal Bridge crosses the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the causeway ... Scotia peninsula mainland Nova Scotia . The Canso Causeway Cabhsair Chanso in Canadian Gaelic ... abbr on long Canso Canal , which is located at the eastern end of the causeway to allow ship traffic to transit the Strait of Canso. The convert 94 m ft abbr on Canso Canal Bridge is a swing bridge which carries the road and railway line across the canal. The word Canso is believed to be derived from ... as finishing the Canso Canal and its swing bridge. Construction was finally completed on April .... Official opening The official opening of the Canso Causeway took place on August 13, 1955 when ..., the 100th bagpiper refused to play. Unreferenced section date November 2011 Legacy File Canso Causeway Aerial 2007.jpg thumb Canso Causeway from the air, looking northwest from the Cape Breton side. When the causeway was completed, the eastern end of the Strait of Canso became ice free during the winter. Several industries were attracted to the Strait Area, including the Stora Enso Stora pulp and paper .... fact date November 2011 From 1955 to the early 1990s, the Canso Causeway charged a toll to motorists ... more details
MarsGeo Crater name The crater Canso on Mars image Image Canso crater.jpg 200px eponym Canso, Nova Scotia latitude 21.6 N or S N longitude 60.7 E or W W diameter 27.4 km Canso is a Mars Martian Impact crater crater . It lies about 450 kilometres west of the Viking 1 lander, slightly northeast of Lunae Planum , and west of Chryse Planitia , in the Lunae Palus quadrangle . The crater is named after Canso, Nova Scotia Canso , a fishing town in Nova Scotia . The name was officially adopted in 1988 by the International Astronomical Union s Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature IAU WGPSN . gallery Image Canso Crater.JPG Canso Crater North Wall and Floor, as seen by HiRISE. gallery References http Planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov IAU WGPSN Planetary Feature Gazetteer Database. USGS Branch of Astrogeology, Flagstaff, Arizona. crater stub Mars stub Category Impact craters on Mars bs Canso krater de Canso Marskrater fr Canso crat re pt Canso cratera sk Canso kr ter ... more details
unreferenced date September 2010 This article is about the headland. For the town, see Canso, Nova Scotia . Location map Canada Nova Scotia label Cape Canso position right lat 45.3 long 60.9325 caption Location of Cape Canso in Nova Scotia Cape Canso is a Headlands and bays headland located at the eastern extremity of the Nova Scotia peninsula in the Canada Canadian province of Nova Scotia . coord 45 18 00 N 60 55 57 W display title DEFAULTSORT Canso, Cape Category Headlands of Nova Scotia Category Guysborough County, Nova Scotia NovaScotia geo stub ... more details
The canso IPA oc kan su lang , IPA ca k n so lang small or small IPA ca kan so modern Occitan language Occitan spelling canson , modern Catalan language Catalan spelling can , pl. can ons is a song style used by the troubadour s. It consists of three parts. The first stanza is the exordium , where the composer explains his purpose. The main body of the song occurs in the following stanzas, and usually draw out a variety of relationships with the exordium . The canso can end with either a Tornada Occitan literary term tornada or envoi . This part usually bring the piece to some form of resolution. A tornada is a shortened stanza, containing only a latter part of the standard stanza used up to that point. Some cansos contain more than one tornada. The canso became, in Old French , the grand chant . External links http cunnan.sca.org.au wiki Canso Cunnan wiki source GFDL Category Occitan literature Category Western medieval lyric forms ca Can trobadors es Canci n trovador fr Canso it Canso lmo Cans troad r ja oc Canso pl Canso ru sl Canso pesem sr uk ... more details
italictitle The Canso d Antioca was a late twelfth century Occitan language Occitan epic poem in the form of a chanson de geste describing the First Crusade up to the Siege of Antioch 1098 . It survives only in a manuscript fragment of 707 alexandrines preserved in Madrid . ref name Sweetenham Sweetenham, 2. ref ref name Mace145 Mac , 145. ref The Canso was a reworking of an earlier Occitan epic history of the First Crusade written by Gregory Bechada probably between 1106 and 1118. ref name Paterson84 Paterson, 84. ref Being based partially on eyewitness testimony, the Canso serves as a source in its own right for the Occitan contribution at Antioch. ref name Paterson84 ref Sweetenham, 79. ref It emphasises the feats of the knights of southern France, especially Gouffier de Lastours , and southern Italy, the Italo Normans under Bohemond I of Antioch Bohemond of Taranto . ref name Paterson84 It is sometimes supposed to have also dealt extensively with Raymond IV of Toulouse , but he is not found in the surviving fragments. ref name Mace145 The Canso also served as the literary model for the early thirteenth century Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise of William of Tudela ref name Paterson84 and for the late thirteenth century History of the War of Navarre of William Anelier . ref Sweetenham, 4. ref ref Mac , 146. ref Portions of it were also translated into Castilian language Castilian for the Gran Conquista de Ultramar , which also contains unique material possibly borrowed from the complete version of the Canso or from Bechada s earlier epic. ref name Sweetenham References div class references small The Canso d Antioca An Epic Chronicle of the First Crusade , ed. and trans. Carol Sweetenham and Linda M. Paterson. Aldershot and Burlington Ashgate Publishing, 2003. http books.google.ca ... literature Category Crusade literature Category Chansons de geste de Canso d Antiocha it Canso d Antioca la Canso d Antioca ... more details
Orphan date December 2010 Canso Rocks coord 63 39 S 59 18 W source GNIS are two rocks lying west of Bone Bay Antarctica Bone Bay , convert 2 mi 0 northwest of Notter Point , Trinity Peninsula . They were named by the UK Antarctic Place Names Committee after the Consolidated PBY Catalina Canso , one of the types of aircraft used by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition 1955 57 . References usgs gazetteer id 2387 Category Rock formations on Trinity Peninsula TrinityPeninsula geo stub ... more details
Infobox military conflict conflict Raid on Canso partof King George s War date May 23, 1744 place Canso, Nova Scotia result French victory combatant1 flagcountry Kingdom of France combatant2 flagcountry Kingdom of Great Britain commander1 Joseph Dupont Duvivier Fran ois du Pont Duvivier commander2 Patrick Heron British Army officer Patrick Heron POW br George Ryall POW strength1 17 vessels 2 privateers 1 sloop 14 fishing boats 351 soldiers 139 men and officers of the troupes de la marine 212 militia strength2 over 100 men several ships casualties1 Negligible casualties2 1 killed, 4 wounded, about 100 captured campaignbox Campaignbox War Of Austrian Succession King George s War The Raid on Canso was an attack by French forces from Louisbourg on the British outpost of Canso, Nova Scotia shortly after war declarations opened King George s War . The French raid was intended to boost morale, secure Fortress of Louisbourg Louisbourg s supply lines with the surrounding Acadian settlements, and deprive Britain of a base from which to attack Louisbourg. While the settlement was utterly destroyed ... in 1745, using Canso as a staging area. Background The inhabitants of Louisbourg received word of France ... of the news of war a military expedition to Canso was agreed upon, and on May 23 a flotilla left ... , arrived during the night of May 24, finding Canso weakly defended and unprepared for war. At dawn ... of surrender were promptly worked out, and by mid morning Canso was in French hands. After loading ... to Boston for the women and children. Aftermath The success of the raid on Canso caused great excitement ... was captured in the French raid on Canso, and while imprisoned at Louisbourg, he developed plans ... Britain Canso Category Battles involving France Canso Category Battles of the War of the Austrian Succession Canso Category History of Nova Scotia Category Conflicts in Nova Scotia Category Conflicts in Canada Category 1744 in Nova Scotia Category Military raids Canso ... more details
ocean habitat topics image Strait.svg caption Diagram of a strait A strait or straits is a narrow, typically ... interchangeably with strait , although each is sometimes differentiated with varying senses. Many straits ... of straits, they are not usually referred to as such. The term strait is typically reserved ... a strait may be capable of generating 10 GW. ref name Marine Marine Briefing December 2006 Scottish Renewables Forum. Glasgow. ref Cook Strait in New Zealand may be capable of generating 12GW. ref Renewable energy development http renewableenergydev.com red tidal energy cook strait Tidal Energy Cook Strait ref Navigational legal regime Straits used for international navigation through the territorial ... seas or an exclusive economic zone are subject to the legal regime of transit passage Strait of Gibraltar , Dover Strait , Strait of Hormuz . The regime of innocent passage applies in straits used for international ... sea of coastal nation Strait of Tiran , Strait of Juan de Fuca , Strait of Baltiysk and 2 in straits formed by an island of a state bordering the strait and its mainland if there exists seaward ... convenience with respect to navigational and hydrographical characteristics Strait of Messina , Pentland ... Details list of straits File Strait of gibraltar.jpg thumb right The Strait of Gibraltar br North is to the left ... . Bass Strait , which lies between mainland Australia and Tasmania , and depending on definition ... Ocean. Bering Strait 85 km , between Alaska and Siberia , which connects the Pacific Ocean ... and the Black Sea , with the Sea of Marmara in between. Cook Strait , separating the North and South Islands of New Zealand . Strait of Dover 34 km , between England and France, which ... lent the French translation of strait for naming the city of Detroit . The East River in New York ... there. Strait of Gibraltar 14.3 km , the only natural passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea . Strait of Hormuz connecting the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman , through ... more details
Logo of the town of Woodstock, New Brunswick insignia non free logo non free symbol Licensing Non free use rationale Description Seal of Canso, Nova Scotia Source http www.townofcanso.com Article Canso, Nova Scotia Portion Full Low resolution Yes Purpose To show the reader what the seal looks like. Replaceability No other information ... more details
unreferenced date November 2011 notability date November 2011 Image CapeBretonEntrance.jpg 200px thumb right The Canso Canal Bridge crosses the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the Canso Causeway . The navigable canal is considered the official dividing line between Cape Breton Island and Nova Scotia peninsula mainland Nova Scotia . The Canso Canal Bridge is a swing bridge in Nova Scotia , Canada . The bridge is a rotating swing bridge that crosses the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the Canso Causeway . The bridge carries the 2 traffic lanes of Nova Scotia Highway 104 Highway 104 the Trans Canada Highway as well as a single track railway line operated by the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway CBNS . The bridge is owned and maintained by the railway company, although maintenance costs are shared by the Government of Nova Scotia s Department of Transportation and Public Works. Dimensions The bridge is a 94 metre 308.3 feet long swing bridge of a truss design which carries the Trans Canada Highway road and railway line across the canal immediately south of the southern end of the canal s single lock. History The bridge carried its first traffic a train on April 18, 1955 when the Canso Causeway construction was completed. Its official opening was on August 13 of that year. From 1955 1993 the bridge was owned and operated by the Canadian National Railway CN . Ownership was transferred to the CBNS after that company purchased the Truro, Nova Scotia Truro Sydney, Nova Scotia Sydney railway line in 1993. The railway employs a bridge operator who is required by federal law to rotate the structure to accommodate vessel passage. coord 45 38 50.61 N 61 24 45.08 W display title Category Bridges in Nova Scotia Category Road rail bridges Category Swing bridges in Canada Category Transportation in Inverness County, Nova Scotia Category Buildings and structures in Inverness County, Nova Scotia Category Bridges completed in 1955 Category Bridges on the Trans Canada ... more details
For the headland, see Cape Canso . Infobox settlement See the Table at Infobox settlement for all fields and descriptions of usage Basic info official name Canso other name native name for cities whose ... image skyline Canso11.jpg imagesize image caption Canso as seen from the harbour image flag flag size image seal Canso ns seal.jpg seal size image shield shield size city logo citylogo size image ... right pushpin map caption Location of Canso, Nova Scotia pushpin mapsize 275 Location coordinates ... Body for places with, say, both a mayor and a city manager leader name1 Canso Town Council leader ... I ecstats Agency BRIAN census2 Bot generated title ref coord 45 20 2 N 60 59 43 W name Canso display title region CA NS type city 911 scale 10000 Canso is a small Canada Canadian town in Guysborough ... in Nova Scotia prior to the establishment of Halifax 1749 . Canso played a key role in the defeat ... . History Since the 16th century, Canso has been a strategically important fishery base. It is said that the harbour of Canso was frequented by European fur traders and fishermen within a dozen .... Acadian Governor Razill built a fortified post, Fort Saint Francois at Canso with Nicholas Le ... 1800. Nimbus Publishing, 2004. p. 16 ref Raid on Canso 1718 The Squirrel Affair Shortly after Southack ... on Canso and Chedabucto present day community of Guysborough, Nova Scotia community Guysborough in what ... prisoners onto the Canso Islands without any provisions or clothing. ref Campbell, p. 132 ref ... to fortify Canso. ref name Geoffery Plank 2001. p. 76 77 Raid on Canso 1720 On August 7, 1720, 60 ... which they transported to Annapolis Royal. This raid on Canso was significant because of the involvement ... of Massachusetts took proprietarial attitude toward the Canso fisheries and sent the HMS Seahorse to patrol ..., p. 157 ref Dummer s War Raid on Canso 1722 In the lead up to Dummer s War , in July 1722, the Mi kmaq ... between Cape Sable and Canso. ref name George Rawlyk p.114 As a result, the New England Governor ... more details
Summary Information Description Canso Crater, as seen by hirise. Location is 21.3 degrees north latitude and 299.4 degrees east longitude. Image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter s HiRISE. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona. Image courtesy NASA JPL University of Arizona. Source http hirise.lpl.arizona.edu PSP 007139 2015 Date May 4, 2009 Author Jim Secosky modified nasa image. Permission other versions Licensing PD USGov NASA Copy to Wikimedia Commons bot Svenbot priority true ... more details
, Nova Scotia Guysborough , Dominion, Nova Scotia Dominion and Canso, Nova Scotia Canso . The area ... Highlands Canso and Cape Breton East Richmond ridings. Bras d Or was renamed Bras d Or Cape Breton ..., Nova Scotia Sydney River was incorporated into a new riding called Cape Breton Canso , and it also ... Cape Breton Highlands Canso , Cape Breton East Richmond prior to 1997 colspan 5 align center Bras ... Rodger Cuzner Liberal Party of Canada Liberal colspan 5 align center Cape Breton Canso ... CCCCCC 41st Canadian Parliament 41st 2011 present Election results Cape Breton Canso CanElec2 2011 ... Breton Canso 2003 from the Library of Parliament Ridings in Nova Scotia Ridings in Atlantic Canada ..., Nova Scotia Category Richmond County, Nova Scotia fr Cape Breton Canso ... more details
Location map Canada Nova Scotia width 220 lon dir W lat dir N lat deg 45 lat min 57 lat sec lon deg 60 lon min 48 lon sec caption Barra Strait in Nova Scotia The Barra Strait ref http geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca cgi bin v9 sima unique v9?english?CABRZ?C Geographical Names Board of Canada Barra Strait ref is a convert 1 km mi abbr on wide channel located the Canada Canadian province of Nova Scotia . It connects the northern and southern basins of Bras d Or Lake , an inland saltwater body that dominates the centre of Cape Breton Island . The community of Grand Narrows, Nova Scotia Grand Narrows is situated on the eastern shore while the community of Iona, Nova Scotia Iona is situated on the western shore. The opening of the St. Peters Canal in 1869 saw the Barra Strait become part of a sheltered coastal shipping route between Sydney, Nova Scotia Sydney and the Strait of Canso for small vessels. In the late 1880s the Intercolonial Railway of Canada bridged the strait with the Barra Strait Railway Bridge , the longest railway bridge in the province. The Government of Nova Scotia operated a small ferry service for motor vehicles across the strait for much of the 20th century. It was replaced in October 1993 when the Barra Strait Bridge opened, carrying Nova Scotia Route 223 Route 223 . References reflist Coord 45 57 N 60 48 W display title region CA type waterbody source dewiki Category Straits of Nova Scotia Category Victoria County, Nova Scotia Category Geography of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality VictoriaNS geo stub CapeBretonNS geo stub ... more details
Image Cabot Strait.png thumb 200px The Cabot Strait lies north of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Cabot Strait IPA en k b t lang lang fr d troit de Cabot , IPA fr kabo lang is a strait in eastern Canada approximately 110 kilometres wide between Cape Ray , Newfoundland island Newfoundland and Cape North Nova Scotia Cape North , Cape Breton Island . It is the widest of the three outlets for the Gulf of Saint Lawrence into the Atlantic Ocean , the others being the Strait of Belle Isle and Strait of Canso . It is named for the Genoa Genoese explorer Giovanni Caboto . The strait s bathymetry is varied, with the Laurentian Channel creating a deep trench through its centre, and comparatively shallow coastal waters closer to Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island. These bathymetric conditions have been known by mariners to cause Rogue wave oceanography rogue wave s. The steep slope of the Laurentian Channel was the site of a disastrous submarine landslide at the southeastern end of the strait, triggered by the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake and leading to a tsunami that devastated communities along Newfoundland s south coast and parts of Cape Breton Island. ref name bbc cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi science nature 8028949.stm title Ancient tsunami hit New York last Bentley first Molly publisher BBC accessdate 2010 06 19 date 2009 05 03 ref A strategically important waterway throughout Canadian and Newfoundland history, the strait is also an important international shipping route, being the primary waterway linking the Atlantic with inland ports on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway . The strait is crossed daily by the Marine Atlantic ferry service linking Channel Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador Channel Port aux Basques , and North Sydney, Nova Scotia North Sydney . Ferry Ferries have been operating across the strait since 1898 and a submarine Telegraphy ... bbc An infamous location in the strait for shipwreck s during the age of sail , St. Paul Island, Nova ... more details
The Stikine Strait is a strait in the Alexander Archipelago of Alaska , located between Zarembo Island to the west and Etolin Island Etolin and Woronkofski Island s just southwest of the Wrangell, Alaska City of Wrangell . The strait s name derives from that of the Stikine River , the outlet of which is just northeast of Wrangell. The strait is shown on a 1844 Russian chart, but the name was first published on Russian Admiralty charts in 1848 as Proliv Stakhinskiy or Stakhin Strait . Other spelling variants over time have been Frances Strait , Stachin Strait , Stachine Strait , Stackine Strait , Stahkeen Strait , Stahkin Strait , Stakeen Strait , Stakhinski Strait , Stickeen Strait , and Stikeen Strait References gnis 1415008 coord 56 18 42 N 132 36 52 W scale 500000 display title Category Straits of Alaska Category Landforms of Wrangell City and Borough, Alaska Alaska geo stub WrangellAK geo stub ... more details
The Wellington Strait coord 69 28 N 095 59 W region CA type waterbody display inline,title name Wellington Strait is a natural waterway through the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut . It separates the Tennent Islands to the west from Matty Island to the east . To the north, the strait opens into the James Ross Strait to the south it opens into the Rae Strait . Straits of Nunavut Category Straits of Kitikmeot Region KitikmeotNU geo stub ... more details
Dampier Strait may refer to two different straits with the same name which are located on the same island of New Guinea Dampier Strait Papua New Guinea . Dampier Strait Indonesia . disambig de Dampierstra e fr D troit de Dampier ko pt Estreito de Dampier ... more details
Ikerasakassak Strait is a strait of Greenland . It is located in the Upernavik Archipelago . Greenland geo stub Upernavik Archipelago Category Straits of Greenland Category Upernavik Archipelago coord missing Greenland ... more details
Image Taymyra2y.PNG thumb 200px Map showing the location of Taymyr Strait Taymyr Strait lang ru is a 3 km wide strait in Russia . It separates Taymyr Island from Taymyr Peninsula , and connects the Palander Strait in the west with the Taymyr Gulf in the east. coord 76 08 47 N 95 47 48 E region RU type waterbody display title Category Straits of Russia Category Straits of the Kara Sea KrasnoyarskKrai geo stub ru ... more details
Image Iceberg in the Gerlache, Antarctica.JPG thumb Iceberg in the Gerlache. Gerlache Strait or De Gerlache Strait or D troit de la Belgica Mixing French and Spanish??? is a Channel geography channel strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula . The Belgian Antarctic Expedition , under Lt. Adrien de Gerlache , explored the strait in January and February 1898, naming it for the expedition ship RV Belgica Belgica . The name was later changed to honor the commander himself. Image Gerlache Strait Antarctica.JPG thumb center 500px Panorama view of Gerlache Strait. Clear External links http www.pgoimages.com g antarctica gerlache.php Images from the Gerlache Strait Category Straits of the Palmer Archipelago PalmerArchipelago geo stub coord 64 30 S 62 20 W display title fr D troit de Gerlache no Gerlachestredet pt Estreito de Gerlache ... more details
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