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Iona (Scottish Gaelic: Sanndraigh) is an unincorporated place in the Municipality of the County of Victoria, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is named after Iona in Scotland. It is at the western end of the Barra Strait Bridge, opposite Grand Narrows. Iona was settled by Gaelic speaking immigrants from the Isle of Barra in 1802.
The Barra Strait [1] is a 1.22 km (0.76 mi) wide channel located in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.It connects the northern and southern basins of Bras d'Or Lake, an inland saltwater body that dominates the centre of Cape Breton Island.
Grand Narrows [3] (Scottish Gaelic: An Caolas Mór) (2001 population 15) is a community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. The community is the birthplace of the longest serving Premier of Nova Scotia, George Henry Murray. The Barra Strait Marina is here, operated by the Grand Narrows Waterfront Development Society.
A ferry service operated across the Barra Strait, between Grand Narrows and Iona, starting in 1847, and continued for the next 146 years. [5]In the late 1880s the Intercolonial Railway of Canada bridged the strait with the Grand Narrows Bridge (also known as the Barra Strait Railway Bridge), which is still the longest railway bridge in the province, [6] crossing between Uniacke Point to the ...
Nautical chart #4278 GREAT BRAS D'OR AND / ET ST PATRICKS CHANNEL (IONA AND / ET GRAND NARROWS), published by Canadian Hydrographic Service, 26 August 2016; Sailing Directions ATL 104E Cape North to Cape Canso (including Bras d’Or Lake), 2010 (Corrected to Monthly Edition No. 12/2019) Archived 5 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine
Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Mi'kmaq: Unama'ki) [5] is a rugged and irregularly shaped island [6] on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.