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===Ports and harbours=== {{See also|Category:Port settlements in Canada}} The [[National Harbours Board]] administered Halifax, Saint John, Chicoutimi, Trois-Rivières, Churchill, and Vancouver until 1983. At one time, over 300 harbours across Canada were supervised by the Department of Transport.<ref name="Year"/> A program of divestiture was implemented around the turn of the millennium, and as of 2014, 493 of the 549 sites identified for divestiture in 1995 have been sold or otherwise transferred,<ref name="actionplan">{{cite web|url=http://actionplan.gc.ca/en/initiative/strengthening-canadas-port-system|website=actionplan.gc.ca|title=actionplan.gc.ca: "Strengthening Canada's Port System|access-date=2021-01-11}}</ref> as indicated by a DoT list.<ref>[http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/programs/ports-deproclamationnotice2%281%29-1111.htm tc.gc.ca: "Deproclamation Notice Subsection 2(1)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815161623/http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/programs/ports-deproclamationnotice2%281%29-1111.htm |date=August 15, 2016 }}</ref> The government maintains an active divestiture programme,<ref name="tc">{{cite web|url=http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/programs/ports-menu-1127.htm|website=tc.gc.ca|title=tc.gc.ca: "Port Programs|access-date=January 11, 2021}}</ref> and after divestiture [[Transport Canada]] oversees only 17 Canada Port Authorities for the 17 largest shipping ports.<ref name="tc_ports">{{cite web|url=http://www.tc.gc.ca/programs/ports/index.htm|title=Ports|publisher=[[Transport Canada]]|access-date=February 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303202248/http://www.tc.gc.ca/programs/ports/index.htm|archive-date=March 3, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090303202248/http://www.tc.gc.ca/programs/ports/index.htm tc.gc.ca: "Ports"], archive.org March 3, 2009</ref> {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} ====Pacific coast==== *[[Victoria Harbour (British Columbia)|Victoria]], British Columbia *[[Vancouver Fraser Port Authority|Vancouver]], British Columbia *[[Prince Rupert Port Authority|Prince Rupert]], British Columbia ====Atlantic coast==== *[[Port of Halifax|Halifax]], Nova Scotia *[[Port of Saint John|Saint John]], New Brunswick *[[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador]] *[[Sept-Îles, Quebec]] *[[Sydney, Nova Scotia]] *[[Botwood]], Newfoundland and Labrador {{col-break}} ====Arctic coast==== *[[Port of Churchill|Churchill]], Manitoba [[Image:Churchill Seaport 1996-08-12.jpg|thumb|[[Churchill, Manitoba]] Seaport]] ====Great Lakes and St Lawrence River==== *[[Bécancour, Quebec]] *[[Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority|Hamilton]], Ontario *[[Port of Montreal|Montreal]], Quebec *[[Port of Quebec|Quebec City]], Quebec *[[Trois-Rivières]], Quebec *[[Thunder Bay Port Authority|Thunder Bay]], Ontario *[[PortsToronto|Toronto]], Ontario *[[Windsor, Ontario]] {{col-end}}
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