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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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He was ordained a priest in the diocese of Nova Scotia, where he served in two parishes on Cape Breton Island.
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For this reason, among others, it was a delight to read the acclaimed novel No Great Mischief by Canadian author Alistair MacLeod, which chronicles its own Clan Donald, from the arrival over two centuries ago on the shores of Cape Breton Island of patriarch Calum Ruadh (Red Calum) and his family from the Scottish Highlands.
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Hailing from Canada's Cape Breton Island, MacMaster, 28, grew up in a musical family, getting her first fiddle as a small child and recording her first album at 16.
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