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Downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Sydney is on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Sydney (2001 population: 24,115) is an urban community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sidney, originally a contraction of âSaint-Denisâ brought to England by the Normans, may refer to: // Sidney, British Columbia Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Sidney, Arkansas Sidney, Iowa Sidney, Kentucky Sidney, Maine Sidney, Montana Sidney, Nebraska Sidney (town), New York Sidney (village), New York Sidney, Ohio Sidney, Washington Surname: See Sidney...
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Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia I used this online map creation tool to generate this map. ...
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia I used this online map creation tool to generate this map. ...
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages English, French (Canadian Gaelic) [] Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 11 10 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked...
Motto: Fortuna Non Mutat Genus (Circumstances Do Not Change Our Origin) Country Canada Province Nova Scotia Established 1995 - 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 Area - Municipality 2,434. ...
Sydney was incorporated in 1904 and dissolved on August 1, 1995 when it was merged into the regional municipality. Sydney is the largest urban centre on Cape Breton Island. Together with Sydney Mines, North Sydney, New Waterford and Glace Bay it forms the Industrial Cape Breton region. Year 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ...
August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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, MÃkmaq: Ãnamakika, simply: Cape Breton) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. ...
Sydney Mines is a town located in Nova Scotias Cape Breton Regional Municipality. ...
North Sydney, Nova Scotia Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia North Sydney is a town located in Nova Scotias Cape Breton Regional Municipality. ...
New Waterford is a town in northeastern Nova Scotia, population est. ...
Glace Bay (2001 pop. ...
Industrial Cape Breton refers to the eastern portion of Cape Breton County fronting the Atlantic Ocean on the southeastern part of Cape Breton Island. ...
History Sydney was founded by Col. Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres in 1785, and named in honour of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (also the Home Secretary in the British cabinet at the time). Lord Sydney appointed Col. DesBarres governor of the new colony of Cape Breton Island. Col. DesBarres landed a group that consisted primarily of poor English citizens and disbanded soldiers. A group of Loyalists from the state of New York, fleeing the aftermath of the American Revolution, were added to the immigrants upon their arrival in the neighbouring colony of Nova Scotia. The site DesBarres chose for the new settlement xcfdgdgwhich forms part of Spanish Bay. Between 1784-1820, Sydney was the capital of the British colony of Cape Breton Island. The colony was disbanded and merged with neighbouring Nova Scotia as part of the British government's desire to develop the abundant coal fields surrounding Sydney Harbour; the leases being held by the Duke of York. In 1826, the leases were transferred to the General Mining Association and industrial development around Sydney began to take shape. Joseph F.W. DesBarres (November 22, 1721 - October 27, 1824) was a Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman, who served as aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe in Quebec. ...
1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (24 February 1732 - 30 June 1800), the British politician after whom the city of Sydney, Australia, is named, was born at Frognal House, near Chislehurst in Kent. ...
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the United Kingdom Home Office and is responsible for internal affairs in England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the whole United Kingdom (including Scotland and Northern Ireland). ...
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, MÃkmaq: Ãnamakika, simply: Cape Breton) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. ...
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John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies that...
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages English, French (Canadian Gaelic) [] Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 11 10 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked...
1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by coal mining, either underground mining or open-pit mining (surface mining). ...
The Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus) (16 August 1763 - 5 January 1827) was a member of the British Royal Family, the second eldest child, and second son of King George III. From 1820 until his death in 1827, he was the heir presumptive to his elder...
The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
By the early twentieth century Sydney became home to one of the world's largest steel plants, fed by the numerous coal mines in the area under the ownership of the Dominion Coal Company. Sydney's economy was a significant part of Industrial Cape Breton with its steel plant and harbour and railway connections adjoining the coal mining towns of Glace Bay, New Waterford, Sydney Mines and Reserve Mines. The economic boom brought about by industrialization saw the community incorporate in 1903. By the late 1960s the coal and steel industries had fallen on hard times and were taken over by the federal and provincial governments and both industries were permanently closed by the end of 2001. Forced to diversify its economy, Sydney has examined a variety of economic development possibilities including tourism and culture, light manufacturing and information technology. The Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (also DOSCO) was a Canadian coal mining and steel manufacturing company. ...
Glace Bay (2001 pop. ...
New Waterford is a town in northeastern Nova Scotia, population est. ...
Sydney Mines is a town located in Nova Scotias Cape Breton Regional Municipality. ...
Reserve Mines is a community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia, Canada, located 7 kilometres southwest of Glace Bay and 15 kilometres northeast of Sydney. ...
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Sydney Harbour played an important role during World War II, staging convoys bound for Europe. They tended to be slower convoys and had the prefix SC (for Slow Convoy). For particulars about one convoy, SC 7, see the section in the article, HMS Scarborough. � Sydney's coal shipping and steel manufacturing were essential ingredients in the Allied victory, however federal Minister of Industry, C.D. Howe favoured Central Canada's steel industry given its proximity to a larger workforce and less exposure to coastal attack. The lack of significant war-time investment in Sydney's steel plant led to its decline after the war from which it was unable to recover. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
A convoy is a group of vehicles traveling together for mutual support. ...
HMS Scarborough was a Royal Navy sloop of the Hastings class launched in 1930. ...
In general, allies are people or groups that have joined an alliance and are working together to achieve some common purpose. ...
The Right Honourable Clarence Decatur C.D. Howe, PC (January 15, 1886 - December 31, 1960) was a leading Canadian politician. ...
Post-industrial adjustment Sydney suffered an economic decline for several decades in the later part of the 20th century as local coal and steel industries underwent significant changes. The closure of the Sydney Steel Corporation's steel mill and the Cape Breton Development Corporation's coal mines in 2000-2001 have resulted in attempts by the municipal, provincial and federal governments to diversify the area economy. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by coal mining, either underground mining or open-pit mining (surface mining). ...
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Sydney Steel Corporation (SYSCO) is a Crown corporation in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ...
The Cape Breton Development Corporation, or DEVCO, is a Canadian federal government Crown corporation. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
At the start of the 21st century, Sydney faces a significant challenge in the cleanup of the Sydney Tar Ponds, a tidal estuary contaminated with a variety of coal-based wastes from coke ovens that supplied the steel industry. After extensive public consultation and technical study, a $400 million CAD cleanup plan jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments awaits further environmental assessment. The 21st century is the present century of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Sydney Tar Ponds, also referred to simply as the Tar Ponds, is a hazardous waste site on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. ...
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In one part of the Whitney Pier neighbourhood, residents of Frederick St. discovered contamination within several homes and in surrounding soil, including a toxic orange substance oozing into local basements. Testing of the substance lasted over a year and many were outraged by delays, although some residents were subsequently relocated to a safer residential area nearby. High unemployment and lack of opportunities have resulted in many educated young people leaving the community for jobs in other parts of Canada and the US. Demographic changes, including an aging population and decrease in the birth rate have begun to affect the area's economic outlook. Specifically, many residents have opted to seek work in Alberta and Ontario. Motto: Fortis et liber (Latin: Strong and free) Official languages English (see below) Flower Wild rose Tree Lodgepole Pine Bird Great Horned Owl Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant-Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ed Stelmach (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 28 6 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total...
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English (de facto) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked 4th 1,076...
Tourism In recent decades, Cape Breton Island has become home to a significant tourism industry, with Sydney (as the island's largest urban centre) being a prime beneficiary. Until the early 2000s when its economy was tied to the steel industry, Sydney had been overlooked as a tourist destination, with the more centrally-located scenic village of Baddeck being a preferred location for tourists transiting the Cabot Trail, however Sydney has recently witnessed a revival as a result of signficant government investment in cruise ship facilities and a waterfront revitalization plan which has seen a boardwalk and marinas constructed. This funding is part of the post-industrial adjustment package offered by the federal and provincial governments. This article is becoming very long. ...
The village of Baddeck is located in Victoria County, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. ...
The Cabot Trail is a Canadian highway located in the province of Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island. ...
Pacific Sky sails under Sydney Harbour Bridge A cruise ship is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ships amenities are considered an essential part of the experience. ...
Sydney's tourism draw is increasingly linked to its cultural asset as being the urban heart of Cape Breton Island. Its population is a diverse mixture of nationalities which contributes to various Scottish, Acadian, African Canadian and eastern European cultural events being held throughout the year. Sydney's accomodation sector is centrally located to attractions in Louisbourg (home of the Fortress of Louisbourg), Glace Bay (home of the Glace Bay Miners Museum), Baddeck (home of the Alexander Graham Bell Museum), as well as popular touring destinations such as the Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, and Bras d'Or Lake. Louisbourg, on Cape Breton Island Louisbourg is a town in southeastern Cape Breton Island, in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. ...
The Fortress of Louisbourg (in French, Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a Canadian National Historic Site and the location of a partial reconstruction of an 18th century French fortress at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. ...
Glace Bay (2001 pop. ...
The village of Baddeck is located in Victoria County, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. ...
Cape Breton Highlands National Park is located on northern Cape Breton Island in the province of Nova Scotia. ...
Bras dOr Lake, Nova Scotia. ...
Port Facility Sydney's marine terminal welcomes dozens of cruise ships every year, with the majority visiting in late summer or early fall to take in fall foliage tours. The port is currently underutilized industrially but holds potential as a logistics base for future offshore petroleum and natural gas exploration in the Laurentian Basin, southeast of Cape Breton Island; an area that has been touted as a potential economic catalyst for Industrial Cape Breton. Legend of the Seas moored at San Diego, California A cruise ship, or less commonly cruise liner, is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the amenities of the ship are considered an essential part of the experience. ...
Autumn colours at Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England. ...
Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Ignacy Åukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ...
Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide. ...
Education Sydney is home to two public secondary schools: Sydney Academy and Holy Angels High School. Cape Breton University and the Nova Scotia Community College's Marconi Campus are located several miles east of Sydney along Highway 4. Cape Breton University (CBU), formerly the University of Crayons and Colouring Books (UCCB), is a university in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, near Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the island of Cape Breton. ...
The Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) is the community college of Nova Scotia. ...
Sunrise Trail Nova Scotia Route 4 is part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotias system of Trunk Highways. ...
Sports The Cape Breton Screaming Eagles of the QMJHL play their home games at Centre 200. The franchise, which came into the league in 1969 as the Sorel Eperviers, moved to Sydney from Granby, Quebec in 1997, just one year after winning the Memorial Cup. The Cape Breton Screaming Eagles are a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. ...
The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (French: la Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec, abbreviated QMJHL in English, LHJMQ in French) is one of the three Major Junior A Tier I hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. ...
Centre 200, is the main arena located in Sydney, Nova Scotia. ...
The Cape Breton Screaming Eagles are a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. ...
For the township see Granby, Quebec (township) Granby is a city in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal on Lac Boivin. ...
The Memorial Cup is the championship trophy of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). ...
From 1988 to 1996 Sydney was home to the Cape Breton Oilers of the AHL, the primary farm team of the NHL's Edmonton Oilers. They won that league's championship, the Calder Cup, in 1993. The franchise moved to Hamilton, Ontario after the 1995-96 season, becoming the Hamilton Bulldogs. The Cape Breton Oilers were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. ...
The American Hockey League (AHL) is regarded as the top professional hockey league in North America outside the National Hockey League (NHL) for which it serves as the primary developmental circuit. ...
NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ...
The Edmonton Oilers are a professionial ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ...
The AHL prize. ...
Nickname: Ambitious City, Steeltown, The Hammer Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Location in the province of Ontario, Canada Coordinates: Country Province Canada Ontario Incorporated June 9, 1846 [1] Mayor Fred Eisenberger City Council Hamilton City Council Representatives MPs and MPPs Area - City 1,138. ...
The Hamilton Bulldogs are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. ...
In 1993 and 1994 the Cape Breton Breakers of the NBL also played at Centre 200. NBL may refer to: the Australian National Basketball League the New Zealand National Basketball League the defunct American National Basketball League the defunct Canadian National Basketball League the Australian student political grouping National Broad Left This page expands a three-character combination which might be any or all of an...
Centre 200, is the main arena located in Sydney, Nova Scotia. ...
People born in Sydney - Gordie Sampson, singer-songwriter
- Bruce MacNeil, photographer
- David Dingwall, former cabinet minister
- Danny Gallivan, Hockey Night in Canada sportscaster
- Calvin Ruck, activist and senator
- Harold Russell, actor
- Nathan Cohen, theatre critic, broadcaster
- Greg MacPherson, musician
- Nick Beaton, Comedian
âGordie Sampson is a singer-songwriter from Sydney, Nova Scotia. ...
Dingwall was heavily criticized after the discovery of personal items he billed to his government expense account The Honourable David Charles Dingwall, PC (born June 29, 1952) is a former Canadian Cabinet minister and civil servant. ...
The Cabinet of Canada plays an important role in the Canadian government in accordance with the Westminster System. ...
Danny Gallivan (April 11, 1917 - February 24, 1993) was a Canadian radio and television broadcaster and sportscaster. ...
Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) is a popular television broadcast of National Hockey League games in Canada, produced by the CBC. Hockey Night consistently remains one of the highest-rated Canadian programs on television. ...
Calvin Woodrow Ruck (September 4, 1925_October 19, 2004) was an activist and Canadian senator. ...
The Senate of Canada (French: Le Sénat du Canada) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the House of Commons. ...
Harold John Russell (b. ...
Greg MacPherson (born 1973 in Sydney, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. ...
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