New Waterford
New Waterford is an urban community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. New Waterford has about 6,720 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 6,720 residents
- Description: human settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Also known as: “New Waterford, Nova Scotia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Waterford Lake and Flat Point Light.
Waterford Lake
Reservoir
Waterford Lake is the main water supply for New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was the scene of the beginning of the "battle of New Waterford" during the coal mine strikes of 1925 that occurred as part of the 1920s-era Cape Breton labour Wars. Waterford Lake is situated 3 km west of New Waterford.
Flat Point Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Low Point Lighthouse is an historic Canadian lighthouse marking the eastern entrance to Sydney Harbour at New Victoria, Nova Scotia, near New Waterford, Nova Scotia. Flat Point Light is situated 3½ km northwest of New Waterford.
Lingan Generating Station
Electrical generator
Photo: Ken Heaton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lingan Generating Station is a 620 MW Canadian coal-fired electrical generating station located in the community of Lingan in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Lingan Generating Station is situated 4 km east of New Waterford.
New Waterford
- Categories: General Service Area and locality
- Location: Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.24839° or 46° 14′ 54″ northLongitude
-60.08735° or 60° 5′ 15″ westPopulation
6,720Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA NWAOpen location code
87RX6WX7+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 410361993OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“New Waterford” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “New Waterford”
- Irish: “Port Láirge Ùr”
- Irish: “Portlairge Ùr”
- Polish: “New Waterford (Kanada)”
- Polish: “New Waterford”
- Russian: “Нью-Уотерфорд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port Lairge Ùr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port Láirge Ùr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Portlairge Ùr”
- Turkish: “New Waterford”
- “New Waterford”
- “Portlairge Ùr”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “New Waterford”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.