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Inverness County, Nova Scotia - definition of Inverness County, Nova Scotia in Encyclopedia (135 words) |
 | Inverness County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. |
| The boundaries of Inverness County had been previously defined when Cape Breton Island was divided by statute into three Districts in 1823. |
| Inverness County was established within the boundaries of the Northwestern District of Cape Breton Island. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nova Scotia (3577 words) |
| In the counties lying along the Bay of Fundy and penetrated by the inlets are valuable dike-lands begun by the early French settlers, and continued after the expulsion of the Acadians by the colonists from New England, who in 1760 and 1761 took possession of the lands of the expelled Acadians. |
| Cape Breton was reannexed to Nova Scotia in 1819. |
| The Province of Nova Scotia is divided into two dioceses: the Archdiocese of Halifax, which embraces the eleven westernmost counties of the province; and the Diocese of Antigonish, which embraces the four counties on Cape Breton Island, and the Counties of Guysborough, Pictou, and Antigonish on the peninsula. |
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