Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lunenburg is a port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia.
Sherbrooke is a rural community on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, in Guysborough County. It is located along the St. Mary's River, a major river in Nova Scotia. The community is named for Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, a colonial era Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Gold was discovered in the area in 1861 and Sherbrooke entered a gold rush which lasted two decades. The economy of the community today revolves around fishing, tourism and lumber. The community is the site of an open-air museum called "Sherbrooke Village" which depicts life in the later 1800s in the wake of the gold rush era.
Arisaig, is a small village in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located on the north coast of eastern mainland Nova Scotia, on the Northumberland Strait, and is connected to the town of Antigonish to the southeast and to New Glasgow to the west by Route 245, the "Sunrise Trail". Nearby communities include Doctors Brook, Malignant Cove, Knoydart, and McArras Brook.
St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica is a Gothic Revival Catholic cathedral located in the downtown core of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Halifax and is the largest Catholic church in the Archdiocese. Consecrated on October 19, 1899, it was made a basilica in 1950 by Pope Pius XII. The St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica boasts the tallest granite spire in North America.
New Victoria is a community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Arichat is an unincorporated place in the Municipality of the County of Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the main village on Isle Madame on the southeastern tip of Cape Breton Island.
Musquodoboit Harbour is a rural community located in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Halifax Regional Municipality. The community is situated on the Eastern Shore at the mouth of the Musquodoboit River. The community lies 45 kilometres east of downtown Halifax. With a hospital, RCMP detachment, postal outlet, schools, recreational center, library, municipal office and other services, Musquodoboit Harbour is a serve centre for many of the surrounding communities.
Neil McNeil was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver from 1910 to 1912 and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto from 1912 to 1934.
Christmas Island, Nova Scotia (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean na Nollaig) is a Canadian community of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. It has a post office, a firehall and a very small population. It has a beach with access to the Bras d'Or Lake. A small island just off shore, also named Christmas Island, encloses Christmas Island Pond, a pond that runs into the lake.
Donkin is a Canadian rural village with a population of 532 as of 2021. Located on the picturesque coastline of Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island, it is a part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. The smaller communities of Port Caledonia and Schooner Pond are directly adjacent to the village proper, connected by a single strip of road called the Donkin Highway.
Rhodes Curry Company was a construction contractor and builder of railway rolling stock based in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Rhodes Curry Company was a significant business in the industrial, commercial, and architectural history of Nova Scotia, and was instrumental in the commercial development and expansion of Nova Scotia’s turn-of-the-century economy.
West Chezzetcook is an Acadian community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Route 207.
Port Morien is a small fishing community of 700 people in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the southeastern Cape Breton Island near the rural community Donkin, and six miles from the town of Glace Bay.
Georgeville is a community on Cape George in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Antigonish County is a historical county and census division of Nova Scotia, Canada. Local government is provided by the Municipality of the County of Antigonish, the Town of Antigonish, and by two reserves: Pomquet and Afton 23, and Summerside 38.
Holy Ghost Ukrainian Church is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church in Whitney Pier, a neighbourhood of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Founded in 1912, the parish serves the Ukrainian community in Cape Breton. It is the only Ukrainian Greek Catholic church in Canada east of Montreal. Holy Ghost is a parish in the Montreal-Ottawa deanery of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada. The church was designated a Nova Scotian heritage property in 1984.
St. Mary's Polish Church is a Roman Catholic church in Whitney Pier, a neighbourhood of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Founded in 1913, the parish serves the Polish community in Cape Breton and is the only parish serving a Polish community in Canada east of Montreal. It is a parish in the Diocese of Antigonish. The church was designated a Nova Scotian heritage property in 1984.
St. George's Church is an Anglican church in Sydney, Nova Scotia. It is the oldest building in Sydney and the oldest Anglican church in Cape Breton. The church was built by the 33rd Regiment of Foot. It was designated a Nova Scotian heritage property on April 4, 1984.
