This is a short hop, from Truro on the Fundy shore (and a great point to detour to Halifax) to New Glasgow on the Northumberland Strait, where you can take the ferry to Prince Edward Island. This route goes through productive farm country and some forests re-growing on the hilltops.
Here is the itinerary for the 56 km along Route #104 from Truro to New Glasgow, Nova Scotia:
The Trans-Canada between Truroand New Glasgow moves through a slight hilly transition into the Pictou Lowlands and the Northumberland Strait.
Truro Area
South of Trurolikes the Minas Basin which is part of the Bay of Fundy renowned for its extrreme tides.
North of the highway, bout midway is the Gully Lake Wilderness Area which protects a patch of Cobequid Mountain woodlands, with gardwood and mixed forest hills (with mature sugar maple, yellow birch and red spruce) rise to more than 300 metres above sea level. The area is home to endangered mainland moose, and other species, The waters here drain through tributary streams, primarily south into Truro’s Salmon River.
This area was settled early and much preferred for gentle river access to inland pine stands. The fertile farmlands along the West River were settled early on, but those lands that needed to be cleared of forests were less fertile and were not economic until the advent of commercial fertilizers in the 1950s.
As you move to the Northumberland Strait, you enter the Pictou Lowlands. The PEI Ferry arrives at Pictou, but the region’s market center is New Glasgow. Exit 22 takes you to thePEI Ferryrun by Northumberland Ferries..