Shoreline Development
Much of the shoreline of the Northwest Arm, referred to locally as "the Arm," is fronted by private residences.
The Northwest Arm is the location of several parks, notably Point Pleasant Park at the southern entrance to the Arm on the Halifax Peninsula. Sir Sandford Fleming Park on the western shoreline contains the Dingle Memorial Tower which commemorates the 150th anniversary in 1908 of the establishment of responsible government in Nova Scotia; the first location in the British Empire to do so. Deadman's Island Park commemorates American soldiers who died while imprisoned on the island during the War of 1812.
The Atlantic School of Theology also maintains its campus along the southern part of the arm.
The Northwest Arm is the location of four marinas:
- Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron
- Armdale Yacht Club
- Waegwoltic Club
- Marlborough Woods Yacht Club
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Famous quotes containing the word development:
“This was the Eastham famous of late years for its camp- meetings, held in a grove near by, to which thousands flock from all parts of the Bay. We conjectured that the reason for the perhaps unusual, if not unhealthful development of the religious sentiment here, was the fact that a large portion of the population are women whose husbands and sons are either abroad on the sea, or else drowned, and there is nobody but they and the ministers left behind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)