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Finlay Point Harbour

Finlay Point Harbour is a small craft harbour situated at Finlay Point near Mabou, in Inverness County on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The harbour is sheltered in the lee of Finlay Point, a rugged coastal headland along the Gulf of St.

Lawrence shore, with its structures tucked behind dark rocky outcroppings. It is listed as a federal fishing and recreational harbour under Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Small Craft Harbours Branch.

The harbour features a breakwater that has undergone reconstruction, with the project involving removal and salvage of existing armour stone, installation of filter stone, and placement of new armour stone to a crest width of four metres.

The point itself takes its name from Finlay Beaton, a Scottish settler who arrived from Lochaber in 1804.


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