Cape Breton Island

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Cape Bret·on Island

(brĕt′n, brĭt′n)

An island forming the northeast part of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Cape Breton Island

(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: 132 298 (2006). Area: 10 280 sq km (3970 sq miles)

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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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The Celtic Colours International Festival is a premier musical event that draws thousands of people every year to hundreds of activities and events in communities across Cape Breton Island.

Canada : Supporting Celtic Arts and Culture in Cape Breton

The layoffs hit just half a year after the first new mine in decades on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island produced its first ton of coal, several months later than initially planned.

Donkin Lays Off Miners

MONTE BURKE NYT Syndicate Every October, two significant migrations take place on the Margaree River on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

All fly rods and autumn glory

And down on Cape Breton Island, Joanne Turner is still honouring the venerable folk art of the quilt.

A passion for quilting

Yavari opened his practice in the city of Glace Bay, a poor and underserved community on Cape Breton Island, which juts out into the Atlantic Ocean almost at the end of North America.

Canada may allow lying doctor to keep practice

Rob Calabrese, a radio disc jockey on tiny Cape Breton Island, decided, more or less as a joke, to suggest that U.

Come to Canada, eh?

The Creignish Hills and North Mountain areas of western Cape Breton Island (Fig.

Field relations, age, and tectonic setting of metamorphic and plutonic rocks in the Creignish Hills--North Mountain area, southwestern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

The fiddle music of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has its own sound, artistic standards, performance practices and etiquette.

The Cape Breton Fiddle Companion

Visit the Virginias, Carolinas or Tennessee for amazing colour displays, or head above the border to Canada's Algonquin Park or Cape Breton Island.

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Father Francois Lejamtel (1757-1835), a missionary responsible for tending to the whole of Cape Breton Island, (39) carried out a census of the Roman Catholic families in Cheticamp in 1809.

The Truck System in the Cape Breton Fishery: Philip Robin and Company in Cheticamp, 1843-1852

If you have a few days on either end I recommend exploring the North East Cape and Cape Breton Highlands and drive out to Meat Cove on the end of Cape Breton Island.

Battling giants: bluefin tuna fishing off Nova Scotia tops the trip list

His home away from home was the village of Marble Mountain on the Bras d'or Lakes in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, the birthplace of his mother.