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Whitney Pier Community Heritage Trail |  |
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WHITNEY PIER HISTORY Extending between Muggah Creek and South Bar, Whitney Pier was first settled as farmland. In the late 19th century, the abundance of coal in Cape Breton and the inpending construction of the Intercolonial railway fostered coal mining and then steel production.By the mid 1890's, a Bostonian named H.M. Whitney, who was the president of Dominion Coal Company,had additional coal loading piers built adjacent to the existing pier and local residents soon adopted his name to identify not only the piers but also their expanding community. At the beginning of the 20th Century, Whitney Pier was forever altered by the construction and opening of the Steel plant.The influx of immigrants who came to work in the steel plant peaked in the 1920's and 1930's. This created a multi culture Community. The Whitney Pier Historical Society is promoting the Whitney Pier Community Heritage Trail www.whitneypiermuseum.org in co-operation with SERL , CBRM, NS Departmet of Natural Resources and Nova Scotia Power Corp to increase recreation opportunities for the Whitney Pier community and other CBRM residents, and to commemorate the historic association of Whitney Pier and the former Steel Plant while commemorating the past and fostering community pride.
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| TRAIL OBJECTIVE AND LOCATION An objective of the proposed Trail is to commemorate the history of Whitney Pier, the diverse ethnicity of the community, the success if its many distinguished citizens and off spring and the long association of the Pier with the Steel Plant.Trail designers and the community will weave parts of these threads together to tell the complete story of Whitney Pier. The trail will be located along the western boundry of the Bluewave Energy [former EMERA] & [former DEVCO] and the Sydney Environmental Resources Limited. [SERL, the new name for SYSCO] properties and will be tangent to the eastern outskirts of the Whitney Pier Neighbourhood. The trail will run from Victoria Road in the south [Railroad Street] to Matilda Street in the north. In the long term, it is intended to link the trail to an eleborate trail system on the former Coke Ovens site as recommended in the Land Use Plan for the Former Coke Ovens, Tar Ponds and Municipal Landfil, and the Trail Along Coke Ovens Brook Through the SYSCO Property. The Whitney Pier Community Heritage Trail section could play an important role in linking Whitney Pier, Ashby and downtown Sydney. |
CONSULTATIONS
Community Groups Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board Pier Garden Club Private Land owners **************************** CORPORATE GROUPS Nova Scotia Power [NSPI] Sydney Coal Railway [SCR] Logistec Blue Wave Energy ************************* PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA Department of Natural Resources [NSDNR] Sydney Environmental Resources LTD [SERL] Mr. Gorden Gosse MLA ************************ CBRM Mr. Jim MacLeod- District 7 Councillor |
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Email Trail Committee to inquire.
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