Tidnish Bridge is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cumberland County on the interprovincial border with New Brunswick between Upper Tidnish, and Lower Tidnish on the Tidnish River.[1]
Tidnish Bridge in Nova Scotia
Tidnish Bridge is home to the Chignecto Ship Railway Keystone Bridge and would have been the Baie Verte terminus. Tidnish Dock Provincial Park is where the last piece of the project remained. The name Tidnish is of Mi'kmaqi origin, said to signify "A Paddle".
Notable residents
editReferences
edit- ↑ "Tidnish Bridge". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
- ↑ Cole, Darrell (27 January 2021). "Meet your neighbour: Tidnish Bridge author's 27th book, Lost River, is an 'elegiac meditation'". The Chronicle Herald. Halifax, N.S.: SaltWire Network. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
External links
edit- Waymarking.com, Chignecto Ship Railway - Keystone Bridge
- Pearl MacD.Atkins, "History of Tidnish Bridge", Amherst Citizen, January 4, 1986
- Tidnish Dock Provincial Park Brochure
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