A 51-year-old man is dead after a crash on Highway 101 in Canaan.
RCMP say it happened on October 24 around 6 p.m. involving four vehicles, including a Ford F350, Honda CRV, Ford Fiesta and Nissan Rogue, all travelling westbound.
The driver of the Fiesta from Hants Border was pronounced dead on scene.
Two men and one woman, ranging in age from 23 to 68, were treated at the scene.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision, is asked to all RMP at 902-679-5555.
A man and a woman are dead after a head on collision on Highway 101.
RCMP say it happened Saturday around 11 a.m., in Auburn.
Both drivers and only ones in the vehicles, a 63-year-old woman from Prospect as well as a 34-year-old man from Cambridge were pronounced dead at the scene.
Anyone who witnessed the crash or with dash cam footage is asked to call RCMP.
Public Works Minister Fred Tilley said that he’s open to working with the Highway 101 Taskforce.
The group was recently reformed with their main focus being getting the province to include the Marshalltown to Weymouth bypass on their Five-Year Highway Improvement Plan.
Four kilometres of the road was improved in 2019, but the rest has still not been brought up to 100-series standards. Many community members have cited safety concerns, even going so far as to contribute to a list of “Highway 101 Horror Stories” online.
In an interview with Acadia News, task force member and Acadia-Annapolis MP Chris d’Entremont said the provincial government needs to make the bypass a priority.
Tilley said the province redid the safety survey for the area, and that staff are currently reviewing the document. He added they received the document in December of 2025, but did not provide a timeline for how long the process could take.
“We’re always looking at what is going to be in our next plan,” said Tilley. “The team has some data they’re going through, and then as we put the five year plan together we’ll know more.”
Although he did not commit to the bypass being included in the plan, Tilley said he’s glad the task force is back together, and that he has met with the group in the past, and that he would be open to meeting with them again.
Acadia-Annapolis MP Chris d’Entremont says the provincial government needs to prioritize finishing work on Highway 101.
D’Entremont recently joined local MLA’s Jill Balser, Ryan Robicheau and a number of other municipal officials for the first meeting of the re-established Highway 101 Task Force.
According to a press release from the task force, their main focus is to advocate for the province to include the Marshalltown to Weymouth bypass in its Five-Year Highway Improvement Plan.
“Theres over 5,000 cars a day, I believe, that travel along that corridor,” said d’Entremont in an interview with Acadia News. “I think people have had enough, but I think we’ve lined up the right group of people to be able to convince the provincial government that this is something that needs to be done.”
Improvements along the Highway 101 corridor have been decades in the making. In 2019, four kilometres of the 25k-km stretch was opened to 100-series highway standards, but the rest remains unfinished.
Calls from residents to finish the project have been a constant according to d’Entremont, and the West Nova Chamber of Commerce has gone so far as to publish “Highway 101 Horror Stories”, a harrowing collection of incidents from residents along the stretch of road.
According to d’Entremont, funding hasn’t been the issue, but rather a result of the provincial government prioritizing communities outside of the Halifax area.
“We need to be able to look out further and take in the other 100 series highways that we have,” said d’Entremont. “So there has to be a priority change from the provincial government to be able to get this on the list.”
Despite the area not being as populated as urban centers like Halifax, d’Entremont said the highway is still a vital corridor for many communities, and would help improve industries like aquaculture, fisheries and tourism.
“I think the Digby community and the community that has the highway running through it deserves a safer passage for its residents,” said d’Entremont. “So we need to get together and try to plan and get ready for an eventual bypass.”
A long-awaited project in Hants County has the green light from Ottawa.
Fisheries minister Joanne Thompson approved phase two of the replacement of the Avon River aboiteau in Windsor.
That will allow a Highway 101 twinning project to be completed.
It’s the fourth proposal the province submitted to DFO since 2020.
Nova Scotia’s public works minister Fred Tilley says it’s great news.
“It will make things safer for travel in that area, we’ve been getting lots of calls from folks in the Windsor area about getting this completed,” said Tilley.
He adds that new technology will improve the fish passage system, and the province will build a new tidal gate and two new bridges.
“The current aboiteau is decades old, the whole system will be better for the fish and the travelling public, we’re very excited.”
The work is expected to start later this year and take three years to complete.
