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This article includes lists of border crossings, ordered from west to east (north to south for Alaska crossings), along the Canada–United States border. Each port of entry (POE) in the tables below links to an article about that crossing. On the U.S. side, each crossing has a three-letter Port of Entry code.
Contents. Port-Royal (Acadia) Port Royal (1605–1713) was a historic settlement based around the upper Annapolis Basin in Nova Scotia, Canada, [ 1 ] and the predecessor of the modern town of Annapolis Royal. It was the first successful attempt by Europeans to establish a permanent settlement in what is today known as Canada. [ 2 ]
The Duc d'Anville expedition (June – October 1746) was sent from France to recapture Louisbourg and take peninsular Acadia (present-day mainland Nova Scotia). The expedition was the largest military force ever to set sail for the New World prior to the American Revolutionary War. [1] This effort was the fourth and final French attempt to ...
Port-Royal National Historic Site is a National Historic Site [1] [2] located on the north bank of the Annapolis Basin in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, Canada.The site is the location of the Habitation at Port-Royal, [3] which was the centre of activity for the New France colony of Port Royal in Acadia from 1605 to 1613, when it was destroyed by English forces from the Colony of Virginia.
Pages in category "Ports and harbours of Nova Scotia" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Port de la Daurade. Port of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Port of Caen. Port of Calais. Port of Deauville. Port of Gennevilliers. Port of Kergroise. Port Saint-Sauveur. Port Vauban.
The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a tourist attraction as a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle ...
Annual container volume. 546,691 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) (2019) [4] Passenger traffic. 323,709 (2019) [4] Website. www.portofhalifax.ca. The Port of Halifax comprises various port facilities in Halifax Harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It covers 10 km 2 (3.9 sq mi) of land, and looks after 150 km 2 (58 sq mi) of water. [2]