Englishtown Ferry

Englishtown Ferry
	The Torquil MacLean (Englishtown Ferry), approaching Englishtown, with the Jersey Cove terminal in the background.
Locale	Englishtown, Nova Scotia
Waterway	St. Ann's Bay
Transit type	Diesel / Hydraulic Cable Ferry
Route	Nova Scotia Route 312
Carries	Motor vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians
Terminals	2
Operator	Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (Nova Scotia)
System length	125 metres (410 ft)
Travel time	2 minutes
Frequency	on demand
No. of vessels	1 (Torquil MacLean)
Daily vehicles	600

The Englishtown Ferry is a cable ferry carrying Nova Scotia Route 312 across the mouth of St. Ann's Bay. The ferry route runs 24 hours a day, on demand, and takes only a few minutes to cross the 125-metre-wide (410 ft) channel.^[1] On 25 March 2013, an 81-year-old man was killed after driving his car off the end of the ferry during boarding and plunging into the cold, swiftly-moving waters.^[2]

In 2014, the Province of Nova Scotia, operator of the ferry, announced that it was investigating the economic implications of replacing the ferry with a bridge.^[3]^[4]

References[]

^ "Englishtown Ferry - Nova Scotia". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
^ "Body of N.S. senior pulled from sunken car near ferry". CBC News. Retrieved 19 September 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Grant, Laura Jean (8 October 2014). "Province analyzing cost of replacing Englishtown ferry with bridge". Cape Breton Post. Transcontinental. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
^ "Province analyzing cost of replacing Englishtown ferry with bridge". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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[1] "Englishtown Ferry - Nova Scotia". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 19 September 2013.

[2] "Body of N.S. senior pulled from sunken car near ferry". CBC News. Retrieved 19 September 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[3] Grant, Laura Jean (8 October 2014). "Province analyzing cost of replacing Englishtown ferry with bridge". Cape Breton Post. Transcontinental. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

[4] "Province analyzing cost of replacing Englishtown ferry with bridge". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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