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Specialty Museum Attractions In Cape Breton Island

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Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.The 10,311 km2 island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia's total area. Although the island is physically separated from the Nova Scotia peninsula by the Strait of Canso, the 1,385 m long rock-fill Canso Causeway connects it to mainland Nova Scotia. The island is east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; its western coast also forms the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait. The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic Ocean; its eastern coast also forms the we...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Cape Breton Island

  • 1. Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site Louisbourg
    The Fortress of Louisbourg is a National Historic Site of Canada and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada.The original settlement was made in 1713, and initially called Havre à l'Anglois. Subsequently, the fishing port grew to become a major commercial port and a strongly defended fortress. The fortifications eventually surrounded the town. The walls were constructed mainly between 1720 and 1740. By the mid-1740s Louisbourg, named for Louis XIV of France, was one of the most extensive European fortifications constructed in North America. It was supported by two smaller garriso...
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  • 6. An Drochaid (The Bridge) Museum Mabou
    An Drochaid Museum was formed in 1980 and is located in Mabou, Nova Scotia. The museum and Mabou Gaelic and Historical Society was founded to catalogue and support Gaelic culture in the Mabou area. It also functions as keeping records of Mabou's history. Built in 1875, it served as a general store and lecture hall until the late-1970s, then in the 1980s the building was purchased and used to create a heritage museum. The museum also functions as a cultural center, giving step-dancing, fiddle and piano lessons, holding Gaelic-related events and workshops. An Drochaid means The Bridge in Gaelic, which is the name Gaelic settlers gave Mabou.
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  • 10. St Patrick's Museum Sydney
    Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian nun who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, as St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. Of Scottish descent, she was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with the Reverend Julian Tenison Woods, she founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart , a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, with an emphasis on education for the rural poor. The process to have MacKillop declared a saint began in the 1920s, and she was beatified in January 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008 and in December 2009 approved the Catholic Church'...
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  • 11. Sydney and Louisbourg Railway Museum Louisbourg
    The Sydney and Louisburg Railway is a historic Canadian railway. Built to transport coal from various mines to the ports of Sydney and Louisbourg, the S&L operated in the eastern part of Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia. The railway uses a slightly different spelling for the town of Louisbourg.
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  • 12. North Highlands Community Museum Cape North
    Cape North is a Canadian rural community in Victoria County, Nova Scotia near the northeastern tip of Cape Breton Island. The community derives its name from Cape North, a headland located 18 km to the north. The village is located at the northernmost point on the Cabot Trail at the intersection with a local road leading to Bay St. Lawrence. Its closest neighboring community is Dingwall. Cape North is located in the federal electoral district of Sydney—Victoria.
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  • 15. Cape Breton Centre for Heritage and Science Sydney
    Cape Breton University , formerly known as the University College of Cape Breton , is a university in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. Located near Sydney, CBU is the only post-secondary degree-granting institution on Cape Breton Island. The university is enabled by the Cape Breton University Act passed by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Prior to this, CBU was enabled by the University College of Cape Breton Act . The University College of Cape Breton's Coat of Arms were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on May 27, 1995.CBU is an ordinary member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada , the Association of Canadian Community Colleges and Association of Atlantic Universities , as well as an Associate Member of the Association of C...
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