On May 2, 1922, the Stanley rescued an American steamer Cairnmona, when she was disabled off the coast of Cape Breton Island.
Forty years after the events of Goin' Down the Road Joey has died in Vancouver and Pete — who left Toronto with Joey after a violent incident — must return to the city to honour Joey's request that his ashes be taken back to Cape Breton Island.
Keltic Lodge is a resort hotel located in the village of Ingonish, Nova Scotia in Canada, on the northeastern coast of Cape Breton Island.
The Louisbourg Garrison (which constituted the bulk of the Île-Royale Garrison) was a French body of troops stationed at the fortress protecting the town of Louisbourg, Île-Royale on Cape Breton Island.
The pale green to creamish-green larva has black bands between segments with yellow spots on the black bands (these spots are orange in Cape Breton Island).
Adams' ballad singing and musical performances have been featured internationally, including the Celtic Colours International Festival in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
He has been described as the first volunteer in the 1745 invasion of the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton Island, now part of Canada.
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Wednesday November 3 - According to the preliminaries of peace, signed at Fontainebleau, England is to have, with certain West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, to the Mississippi River (without New Orleans), Canada, Acadia, Cape Breton Island and its dependencies, and the fisheries, subject to certain French interests.
ACOA is also responsible for a subsidiary federal Crown corporation named Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation (ECBC), which has a similar function to ACOA but a specific jurisdictional mandate which includes all of Cape Breton Island and a portion of mainland Nova Scotia in and around the Town of Mulgrave.
On February 22, 2009, he piloted a replica of Alexander Graham Bell's Silver Dart, from the ice on Baddeck Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
The lake connected ancient lakeside and even ocean coastal communities elsewhere on Cape Breton Island by Canoe such as Chapel Island, Eskasoni, Wagmatcook, Waycobah, and Galtoneg, among many others.
Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation (ECBC) is a Canadian federal Crown corporation which promotes and coordinates economic development throughout Cape Breton Island and adjacent areas in the eastern Nova Scotia town of Mulgrave.
On 18 November 1929, a major earthquake (known as the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake) on the southwestern part of the Grand Banks bordering the Laurentian Channel caused an underwater landslide which resulted in extensive damage to transatlantic cables and generated a rare Atlantic tsunami that struck the south coast of Newfoundland and eastern Cape Breton Island claiming 28 lives in the Burin Peninsula.
Two years later, Plaskett's manager called Kenney with the news that he was recommending her to be invited to Gordie Sampson's Songcamp in Cape Breton.
The Siege of Port Toulouse took place between May 2–10, 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Port Toulouse (present-day St. Peter's, Nova Scotia) in the French colony of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) from its French defenders during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.
This latter clause affected a number of territories taken in New France, including Quebec, which was surrendered by Samuel de Champlain in July 1629 to David Kirke and his brothers, three months after the peace was agreed, as well as other territories in Acadia (present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, then a Scottish colony, and Cape Breton Island).
Canso Causeway, a rock-fill causeway connecting Cape Breton Island to mainland Nova Scotia, Canada
Strait of Canso, between Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia, Canada
The Whitney syndicate was offered an unprecedented 99-year lease at a fixed royalty; the group exercised its options, acquiring most of the existing bituminous coal mines of eastern Cape Breton Island and co-opting such local figures as John Stewart McLennan and David MacKeen.
When included with the Sydney and Inverness coal fields on Cape Breton Island, these regions were extremely prominent in the industrial and social development of Nova Scotia.
The Rankin Family's song "Orangedale Whistle" pays homage to the community's role in Cape Breton Island's transportation history.
St. Patricks Channel an arm of Bras d'Or Lake, Cape Breton Island, Canada