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The term Cape Breton appears in several different things:


Geographic locations

Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada NASA landsat photo of Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Cheap Breatuinn, Míkmaq: Únamakika, simply: Cape Breton) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. ... The Cape Breton Highlands, commonly called the Highlands, refer to a highland or plateau of ancient rock across northern Cape Breton Island and is an extension of the Appalachian mountain chain. ... Cape Breton County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island. ...

Communities

Motto: Fortuna Non Mutat Genus (Circumstances Do Not Change Our Origin) Country Canada  Province Nova Scotia  Established 1995 Government  - Type Regional Council  - Mayor John W. Morgan  - Governing Body Cape Breton Regional Council  - MPs Rodger Cuzner, Mark Eyking  - MLAs Frank Corbett, Cecil Clarke, Gordie Gosse, Manning MacDonald, Alfie MacLeod, David Wilson...

Companies

The Cape Breton Development Corporation, or DEVCO, is a Canadian federal government Crown corporation. ...

National parks

Cape Breton Highlands National Park is located on northern Cape Breton Island in the province of Nova Scotia. ...

Universities

Cape Breton University (CBU), formerly the University College of Cape Breton (UCCB), is a Canadian university in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, near Sydney, Nova Scotia. ...

Sports teams

This league isnt to be confused with the National Basketball League of the 1930s and 1940s. ... The Michigan Hockey League (MHL) is a new semi-professional hockey league that will begin play in the 2006-2007 season. ... The Cape Breton Oilers were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. ... The Cape Breton Screaming Eagles are a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. ...

Electoral districts

Cape Breton was the name of a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada. ... Cape Breton North and Victoria was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1968. ... Cape Breton South was a former federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons, and located in the province of Nova Scotia. ... Cape Breton—Canso is the name of a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada. ... Cape Breton Nova is a Nova Scotia provincial electoral district located in Cape Breton. ...

Political parties

The Cape Breton Labour Party was a social democratic provincial political party in Nova Scotia, Canada that advocated separate provincial status for Cape Breton[1] , which is the northern part of the Province of Nova Scotia. ... Province of Cape Breton Island is a political movement which calls for the re-establishment of the Province of Cape Breton Island to be governed seperately from the Province of Nova Scotia. ...

Newspapers

The Cape Breton Post is the only daily newspaper published on Cape Breton Island. ...

Accents

This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Railways

The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS) is a 392 km (245 mile) railway operating in Nova Scotia between Sydney and Truro with spurs at Sydney, Port Hawkesbury/Point Tupper, Trenton and Stellarton. ...

Music

Cape Breton fiddling is a lively regional violin style which falls within the Celtic Music idiom. ...

Films


  Results from FactBites:
 
Cape Breton Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3275 words)
Cape Breton Island is part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, although physically separated from the peninsular Nova Scotian mainland by the Strait of Canso.
The population of Cape Breton Island as of the 2001 census numbers approximately 147,454 "Cape Bretoners"; this is approximately 16% of the provincial population.
According to the Census of Canada, the population of Cape Breton Island in 2001 was 147,454, a -6.8% decline from 158,260 in 1996.
Cape Breton - definition of Cape Breton in Encyclopedia (990 words)
Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, Irish/Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Cheap Breatuinn, Mi'kmaq: U'namakika) is a large island on the Atlantic coast of North America.
Cape Breton's landscape is dominated by the Bras d'Or Lake system, which the island wraps around, the Strait of Canso, and the Cape Breton Highlands, which are considered a continuation of the Appalachian chain.
Cape Breton is now joined to the mainland by the Canso Causeway, completed in 1955, enabling direct road and rail traffic to and from the island, but constraining marine traffic to pass through the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the causeway.
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