Editing Chignecto Bay (section)

{{Short description|Inlet of the Bay of Fundy in North America}}
{{Designation list
| designation1 = Ramsar
| designation1_offname = Chignecto
| designation1_date = 16 October 1985
| designation1_number = 320<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chignecto|website=[[Ramsar Convention|Ramsar]] Sites Information Service|url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/320|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref>}}
[[Image:Wpdms shdrlfi020l bay of fundy.jpg|thumb|230px|right|Chignecto Bay is the north-east arm of the Bay of Fundy.]]
'''Chignecto Bay''' ({{langx|fr|Baie de Chignectou}}) is an [[inlet]] of the [[Bay of Fundy]] located between the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Canadian province]]s of [[New Brunswick]] and [[Nova Scotia]] and separated from the waters of the [[Northumberland Strait]] by the [[Isthmus of Chignecto]]. It is a unit within the greater [[Gulf of Maine]] Watershed. Chignecto Bay forms the northeastern part of the Bay of Fundy which splits at [[Cape Chignecto]] and is delineated on the New Brunswick side by [[Martin Head, New Brunswick|Martin Head]]. Chignecto Bay is a [[Ramsar site]].

Chignecto bay was also the site of an [[Chignecto Ship Railway|unsuccessful railway and canal project]] of the 1880s and 1890s that would have intersected the landmass, thereby providing a transit passage between [[New England]] and [[Prince Edward Island]]. After several investigations into the feasibility of a new canal project, including most importantly by the Chignecto Canal Commission, the proposed Chignecto Canal was deemed commercially and economically unjustifiable and the project was abandoned.<ref>{{cite web|title=Report of the Chignecto Canal Commission|url=http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2014/bcp-pco/CP32-138-1939-eng.pdf|website=Government of Canada Publications|publisher=Government of Canada|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref> Some of the physical remnants of the 1880s project still continue to dot the landscape of Chignecto Bay today.