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The fictional Kingsport is a larger town combining elements inspired by Halifax and Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. [ 17 ] The famous Canadian poet Bliss Carman wrote a classic poem of courage about a Kingsport schooner named Scud and her fearless twelve-year-old master.
Skoda, a 658-ton barquentine, was built in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, designed by veteran master shipbuilder Ebenezer Cox.The barquentine marked the end of his thirty-year shipbuilding career, and was also the last deep sea vessel built and launched in Kingsport, bringing the shipbuilding era to a close at a yard that built some of the largest sailing ships in Canada.
Route 221: Kingsport - Canning - Sheffield Mills- Centreville - Billtown - Lakeville - Buckleys Corner - Dempseys Corner - North Kingston Route 341 : Kentville - Canard Route 358 : Greenwich - Port Williams - Canard - Canning - The Lookoff - Scot's Bay
Canada was a full-rigged ship built in 1891 at Kingsport, Nova Scotia on the Minas Basin and was the largest sailing ship operated in Canada when launched in 1891. Canada was built and owned by Charles Rufus Burgess of nearby Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Despite the decline in wooden shipbuilding, Burgess saw that there was still potential for very ...
Kings County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. With a population of 62,914 in the 2021 Census, [citation needed] Kings County is the third most populous county in the province. It is located in central Nova Scotia on the shore of the Bay of Fundy, with its northeastern part forming the western shore of the Minas Basin.
Kings County was a four-masted barque built in 1890 at Kingsport, Nova Scotia on the Minas Basin. She was named to commemorate Kings County, Nova Scotia and represented the peak of the county's shipbuilding era. (A much smaller barque also named Kings County had been built in 1871.)
The Cornwallis Valley Railway (CVR) was a historic Canadian railway in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.It was built in 1889 and ran 13.6 miles (21.9 km) from Kentville to Kingsport serving the Cornwallis Township area of Kings County.
Kingsport is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. "Kingsport" may also refer to: Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, a U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area; Kingsport Mets, a minor league baseball team based in Kingsport, Tennessee; Kingsport, Nova Scotia, a village in Nova Scotia