Strategic Location

East Hants is a logistics hub with all the ingredients to position your company for long-term growth and success. Starting at Exit 8, on Hwy 102, we are only 35 minutes from the Port of Halifax and just minutes from Atlantic Canada’s busiest international airport, bringing you that much closer to global markets. With a hardworking and skilled labour force, affordable land in serviced business parks with direct access to major highways and CN’s main rail line, East Hants is the ideal location for business.

Driving distances to major centres

  • Halifax International Airport - 10 minutes
  • Burnside Park - 20 minutes
  • Halifax Regional Municipality - 20 minutes
  • Port of Halifax - 35 minutes

Key Transportation Points

Highway

  • East Hants is bordered by the Halifax-Windsor Corridor and the Halifax-Moncton Corridor
  • At Exit 3, Highway 101 provides immediate access to Mount Uniacke and is minutes from the municipal owned Uniacke Business Park. Highway 101 connects Halifax with Yarmouth and the Annapolis Valley region.
  • A main artery linking East Hants to other major centers, Highway 102 is a four-lane, limited-access highway.  It links Halifax, the South Shore, and the Annapolis Valley with the Trans Canada Highway 104, at Truro
  • The four-lane Trans Canada Highway 104 travels 104 kilometers northeast to Amherst, where it links with the New Brunswick highways and, further west, central Canadian and northeastern U.S. Highways

Air – Halifax Stanfield International Airport

  • The Municipality is a 10 minute drive from the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, so East Hants is truly on the world’s doorstep
  • It is a major economic engine that employs 5,500 employees and contributes in excess of $1 billion to the provincial economy

Rail – Canadian National (CN) Railway

  • The railway’s mainline track from Halifax to Vancouver passes through East Hants on the east side of Highway 2, within the community of Elmsdale
  • CN is the only railroad which crosses the continent east-west and north-south, serving ports on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts, while linking customers to all three NAFTA nations (Source: CN Website, Dec 22, 2008)
Links