Populations (2006):
City: 102,250 (Regional Municipality)
Urban Areas: Sydney Central - 33,012, Glace Bay - 19,968, North Sydney+Sydney Mines - 15,500, New Waterford - 9,661
"Metro": 105,928
Largest population centre on Cape Breton Island. Regional Municipality consists of 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 8th largest Urban Areas in Nova Scotia, plus a huge landmass of rural land and smaller landmass of suburban sprawl that doesn't make it into the urban area criteria. Under old municipal boundaries, Sydney was 3rd largest city in NS behind Halifax and Dartmouth. 2nd largest metro in Nova Scotia and 5th largest in the Atlantic Provinces.
Other threads in this series:
L'Ardoise, NS
Fredericton, NB
Lake Louise, AB
Banff, AB
Most of these were done on a construction update excursion, so this is by no means a thorough representation.
Membertou (Native Reserve)
Skyline, click for original size...warning - huge (that goes for all panos)!
Foreground - part of Whitney Pier, Across the harbour - Sydport
Foreground - part of Whitney Pier, Dirt - former steel plant, Background - suburb of Westmount.
SPAR Rd Power Centre Expansion
Mayflower Mall (the curved building makes the mall larger than it looks from the outside, though still small by most not-small-town standards)
Grand Lake Rd (suburb) Volunteer Fire Dept, building completed in 2007 or so.
SPAR Rd Power Centre will connect to Mayflower Mall at these traffic lights (both owned by the same company).
Now to Downtown...
Cruise Terminal
There was a proposal for this land, though it's gone stale due to NIMBYs complaining about "views" (blocked by a 7-storey building in a hilly city)
Sydport
Boardwalk Skyline (Senior's Residence getting a facelift)
New office building on the site of an old theatre
New Lawton's...demolished almost a whole block for their parking lot. This street (George St, front of building - not in picture) is the "suburban street of downtown", so it fits right in.
YMCA Renovations
with much more work to be done, expected completion 2010.
Supper time...
and HOT (humidex was ~36 this day)
Wentworth Park, lower pond renovations done
upper pond renovations underway
There's a bandshell under that tarp
King's Rd, realigned and widened 2006.
King's Rd turning into Esplanade entering downtown
Esplanade
You can try to hide it, but I'll find it
Prime lot away from NIMBYs "views"
Sydney Harbour toward Sydney River
the Boardwalk will soon be extended beyond that fence to meet with Wentworth Park
Cabot House...still our tallest, still outside downtown
Moxham Apartments (there used to be a castle on this property, but it burned down long before I was born).
Sydport again
Future site of container terminal...meant to handle Post-Panamax traffic.
The harbour curving towards its mouth
Old Government Wharf
New Government Wharf (and Cruise Terminal)
Old SYSCO (steel mill) crane in the background
Delta
I was concerned when I saw the baby blue...the relieved when I realised it was just insulation.
Sydney River suburb business section
Sydney River...the waterway
Marina at Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club, downtown
Cape Breton Regional Municipality (green), Nova Scotia, Canada
You used to be able to swim here (again, before I was born). Soon, you will be able to again.
Skyline (pano alert!)
Clearing for the extension of the Boardwalk
New subdivision in Westmount
Cape Breton Regional Hospital
Hwy-125 twinning, Balls Creek to Sydport Access Rd (AADT 12,600-13,800)
Hwy-125 twinning, Sydport Access Rd to Coxheath Rd (AADT 12,100-16,220)
Hwy-125, Alexandra St West to Sydney River, twinning announced but yet to be started (AADT 15,600-24,000)
Hwy-125, Alexandra St East to Grand Lake Rd, twinning announced but yet to be started (AADT 14,200-26,800)
Promised Thundertubs I'd get pictures of these a while back...former company houses on Victoria Rd heading into Whitney Pier.
Scenery at Victoria Mines (just north of Sydney)
South Bar sandbar
Don't go too close to the edge, the overhang is deceiving.
recent rock fall, at least it was a small one.
Cape Breton Highlands in the hazy distance
Newfoundland Ferry coming back to North Sydney (note: not Sydney)
This is North Sydney
And its neighbour Sydney Mines (sorry, light was bad due to the time of day)
Fort Petrie at southern limit of New Victoria (suburb of New Waterford) - World War I and II fort guarding Sydney Harbour (one of several, last one left in good condition).
New Waterford lighthouse
New Victoria cliffs
Headed back to L'Ardoise, Rte 4 realignment at Ben Eion (shortly past the far southern suburbs of Sydney)
Headed back to Sydney later to catch our flight out, another hot day (this was at around 6:30pm, humidex was ~37)
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