 A typical view of the Marsh The Tantramar Marshes are on the southern part of the Isthmus of Chignecto, which joins Nova Scotia to New Brunswick and the Canadian mainland. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x696, 270 KB)The Tantramar Marsh Photograph courtesy the Tantramar Heritage Trust [1]. Image online from the Government of New Brunswick [2] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x696, 270 KB)The Tantramar Marsh Photograph courtesy the Tantramar Heritage Trust [1]. Image online from the Government of New Brunswick [2] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old...
The Isthmus of Chignecto is an isthmus bordering the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia which connects the mainland portion of Nova Scotia with North America. ...
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages None Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant-Governor Myra Freeman Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 11 10 Area Total • Land • Water (% of total) Ranked 12th 55,283 km² 53,338...
Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope restored) Official languages English, French Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Bernard Lord (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 10 10 Area Total • Land • Water (% of total) Ranked 11th 72 908 km² 71 450 km² 1 458 km...
The marshes penetrate inland from the Bay of Fundy for 10 kilometers. Acadians, who called the region Beaubassin, built dykes in the early 1700s to stop the tidal influx of salt water, creating rich agricultural land on the deep sedimentary soils. The Bay of Fundy (French: baie de Fundy) is a bay located on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. ...
The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of the original French settlers of parts of the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. ...
A dike (or dyke) is an earthen wall, constructed as a defence or as a boundary. ...
The name Tantramar is derived from the Acadian French "Tintamarre", meaning 'din' or 'racket', a reference to the noisy flocks of birds which nest there. The marshes are an important stopover for migrating waterfowl such as semi-palmated Sandpipers and Canada Geese. Today the marshes are the site of two bird sanctuaries. The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of the original French settlers of parts of the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. ...
Families Charadridae Jacanidae Rostratulidae Ibidorhynchidae Recurvirostridae Haematopodidae Scolopacidae Dromadidae Burhinidae Glareolidae Thinocoridae Waders, called Shorebirds in North America (where wader is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons), are members of the order Charadriiformes, excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups. ...
Binomial name Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis), colloquially Canadian Goose in North America, belongs to the Branta genus of geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species. ...
In the past, the Tantramar Marshes have been called the "World's Largest Hayfield". The hay was shipped for commercial sale along the Eastern Seaboard and Europe as late as the 1930s. As a salt marsh, with its rich, sticky, red mud and soil, the hay grown there is high in iodine. In a world where food additives were not yet being used, iodine-rich hay made the Tantramar a valuable source for healthy, high quality fodder. Hay is dried grass (and pasture flowers) cut and used for animal feed. ...
This article is about marsh, a type of wetland. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number iodine, I, 53 Chemical series halogens Group, Period, Block 17, 5, p Appearance violet-dark gray, lustrous Atomic mass 126. ...
In agriculture, fodder or animal feed is any foodstuff that is used specifically to feed livestock, such as cattle, sheep, chickens and pigs. ...
Many historic hay barns still dot the landscape. In the 1930's there were over 400 post-and-beam hay barns scattered across the marsh. Today there are less than 30.
The following rivers drain from and around the marshes:
- Aulac River
- LaPlanche River
- Missaguash River
- Tantramar River
Tantramar Region Over time, the marshes have come to identify the overall inter-provincial region and include the following communities:
Nova Scotia
- Amherst
- Amherst Point
- East Amherst
- Fort Lawrence
- West Amherst
New Brunswick Amherst is a town in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, approximately 194 kilometres northwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia. ...
- Aulac
- British Settlement
- Halls Hill
- Jolicure
- Middle Sackville
- Midgic
- Mount Whatley
- Point de Bute
- Sackville
- Upper Point de Bute
- Upper Sackville
- Westcock
The Tantramar Heritage Trust is a charity dedicated to preserving heritage resources related to this region. Midgic is a community in New Brunswick, Canada. ...
Sackville Waterfowl Park Sackville (45°54′N 64°22′W, AST) is a town in Westmorland County, located in South-Eastern New Brunswick, Canada, only eight km from the Nova Scotia border and 45 km from the regional city of Moncton. ...
The Tantramar Heritage Trust is a non-profit charity that promotes the preservation of heritage buildings, artefacts and lands in an area of south-east New Brunswick along the Nova Scotia border known as the Tantramar. This region, which is centred around Sackville, New Brunswick and Amherst, Nova Scotia is...
External links - Photography of the Tantramar Marshes.
- Marshland: Records of Life on the Tantramar | MTA Archives.
- Placeopedia.com map of the Tantramar Marshes.
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