Online Dispensary in Sydney Mines, NS

Sydney Mines takes its name from Thomas Townshend, First Viscount Sydney, the British Home Secretary who negotiated the Canada-US border in the 1780s, and coal has defined the place since colonial governor DesBarres developed a mine here in 1785. The area was already known to the Mi’kmaq as Klmuejuapskwe’katik, meaning place of the coal, well before European settlers arrived. The mines proved so strategically important during the American Revolution that on November 1, 1776, American naval commander John Paul Jones personally sailed in to try freeing prisoners being forced to work the seams, a raid that speaks to just how valuable this coal supply was to the British war effort.

Large-scale mining took off in 1826, when the General Mining Association sank shafts, built ironworks and laid rail lines to North Sydney, and by 1902 the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company had built a steel plant here that, alongside its counterpart across the harbour in Sydney, produced more than half of Canada’s steel output during the First World War. Sydney Mines incorporated as a town in 1889 and stayed independent until 1995, when it amalgamated into the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. A black granite Miners’ Monument still stands outside the old town hall on Main Street, honouring the generations who worked the collieries. Today Sydney Mines is home to over 12,300 residents. Weed Market ships to Sydney Mines addresses the same way it does anywhere else in Nova Scotia, fast, tracked and completely discreet.

What to Know About Buying Cannabis in Sydney Mines, NS

• Sydney Mines has 1 cannabis retail location, one of several NSLC outlets that opened across Cape Breton after the initial 2018 rollout.
• Nova Scotia sells cannabis exclusively through the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation, with no private retailers permitted anywhere in the province.
• Cape Breton’s cannabis supply ran short enough during the first weeks of legalization in 2018 that some island stores had to close early and restock before reopening.
• With Sydney Mines served by just one cannabis retailer, ordering through Weed Market means a full catalogue that isn’t tied to a single store’s restocking schedule.