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Cape Breton Island

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Cape Bret·on Island  (brtn, brtn)
An island forming the northeast part of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was under French sovereignty from 1632 to 1763.
Cape Breton Island
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(Placename) an island off SE Canada, in NE Nova Scotia, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Canso: its easternmost point is Cape Breton. Pop.: 120 098 (1991). Area: 10 280 sq. km (3970 sq. miles)
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Noun1.Cape Breton Island - an island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia - the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns
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Although he has been a priest in the diocese for 17 years, his work has been concentrated at churches on Cape Breton Island (which is part of Nova Scotia) and in the Halifax area, he noted.
Cutler is suffragan bishop: diocese of Nova Scotia and PEI by Anglican Journal
95 Paperback TR681 Beginning in the mid 1970s and continuing for about two decades, photographer Owen Fitzgerald documented the coal mining operations on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Seven miles deep; mining faces from the Owen Fitzgerald collection by Reference & Research Book News
Located on Cape Breton Island, the tar ponds consist of tons of contaminated soil and sediment left over from 100 years of production as the Sydney Coke Ovens turned coal into coke, a key ingredient in steel production.
Aboriginal construction companies take lead in cleanup of tar ponds by Miller, Heather Andrews / Windspeaker
 
 
 
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