Englishtown Ferry

The Englishtown Ferry is a cable ferry carrying Nova Scotia Route 312 across the mouth of St. Ann's Bay. The ferry route sometimes runs as much as 24 hours a day, and when open, takes only a few minutes to cross the 125 m channel, however during the last couple of years, the ferry is frequently closed to traffic more often than it is open, making it less efficient to cross via ferry than it would if a bridge were to be built, in order to replace the ferry. On 25 March 2013, an 81-year-old man was killed after driving his car off the end of the ferry during boarding and plunging into the cold, swiftly-moving waters.

In 2014, the Province of Nova Scotia, operator of the ferry, announced that it was investigating the economic implications of replacing the ferry with a bridge.