Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia

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established_date2 = January 22, 1889
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postal_code = B9A
area_code = 902
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website = [http://www.townofporthawkesbury.ca/ http://www.townofporthawkesbury.ca/]
footnotes = *Median household income, 2000 ($) (all households)

Part of a series about Places in Nova Scotia

Port Hawkesbury (2006 population 3,922) is a town located on the southwestern end of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of the Strait of Canso, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

The town was originally named Ship Harbour (after the harbour upon which it is located) and is largely a service centre for western Cape Breton Island with many of its residents working in large industries in an industrial park located in the adjacent community of Point Tupper, Richmond County.

Notable people from Port Hawkesbury

*Aaron Johnson an NHL draft pick now playing with the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks.

*Mark Day a Canadian film and television actor and writer now living in Toronto.

*Lynn Coady is a Canadian author. Her best selling novels include; Strange Heaven, Play the Monster Blind and Saints of Big Harbour.

*Henry Nicholas Paint (1830-1921), member of Parliament for Richmond county, merchant and land owner. His family (settling from Guernsey) received land grants at Belle Vue on the Strait of Canso in 1817 and at Point Tupper in 1863, and did much to develop the local communities in the area.

External links

* [http://porthawkesbury.straitareaonline.com/ Town of Port Hawkesbury]