The Canso Canal is a short canal located in Nova Scotia, Canada. The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant Governor Myra A. Freeman Premier John Hamm (PC) Area {{{TotalArea}}} km² (12th)  - Land 53,338 km²  - Water 1,946 km² (3. ...

It is located in the Strait of Canso, on the eastern side of the Canso Causeway, a rock-fill causeway which opened in 1955 to carry a 2-lane highway and railway tracks from Cape Breton Island to mainland North America. The Strait of Canso (also Gut of Canso or Canso Strait), is located in northeastern North America in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ... The Canso Causeway connects Cape Breton Island to the mainland of the province of Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. ... In modern usage, a causeway is a road elevated by a bank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Cheap Breatuinn, Mikmaq: Unamakika), sometimes shortened to just Cape Breton, is a large island on the Atlantic coast of North America. ...

The causeway completely blocks the Strait of Canso, which links the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence with Chedabucto Bay on the Atlantic Ocean. The tidal difference between both water bodies required a lock and short canal to permit a safe transit by shipping traffic. The lock is of "Seaway-max" dimensions, meaning that any vessel capable of transiting the St. Lawrence Seaway will fit through the Canso Canal. The Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the worlds largest estuary, is the outlet of North Americas Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. ... Canal locks in England. ... The Saint Lawrence Seaway in its broadest sense (see Great Lakes Waterway) is the system of canals that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes as far as Lake Superior. ...

A rotating swing bridge carries the Trans-Canada Highway and Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway across the canal. Vessels entering St. George's Bay to the west of the canal, or Chedabucto Bay to the east, must comply with a Vessel Traffic System operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. The bridge operator, an employee of the railway which owns the bridge, is required by federal law to rotate the structure to accommodate vessel passage. A swing bridge is a bridge that has its primary structural support at or near to its centre, about which it can then pivot horizontally. ... Example of Trans-Canada Highway marker shield. ... The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS) is a 392 km (245 mile) railway operating in Nova Scotia between Sydney and Truro with spurs at Sydney, Port Hawkesbury/Point Tupper, Trenton and Stellarton. ... The Canadian Coast Guard or CCG (Fr. ...