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Nova Scotia Route 209

highway in Nova Scotia

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7064156 ↗
Source-derived summary

Route 209 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

It is located in Cumberland County and follows the shoreline of the Bay of Fundy, connecting Parrsboro with Joggins. The linked communities are known as the Parrsboro Shore.

It is designated as part of the Fundy Shore Scenic Drive. Highway 209 was formerly designated as Trunk Highway 9.

Communities

Parks

Cape Chignecto Provincial Park

Chignecto Game Sanctuary

History

The section of Collector Highway 209 from Parrsboro to Apple River was once designated as Trunk Highway 9.

Editorial summary

“Nova Scotia Route 209” enters the record as highway in Nova Scotia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nova, Scotia and Route can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 89-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nova, Scotia and Route.
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Why this record matters

“Nova Scotia Route 209” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nova, Scotia and Route provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7064156. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nova Scotia Route 209” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.