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Harbour Breton was designated as a growth centre in 1965 and the government encouraged people living in isolated communities to relocate to the town. From 1965 to 1971, a total of 700 people had moved to Harbour Breton. Many residents resettled from Sagona Island, [5] Jersey Harbour, Little Bay West, Miller's Passage, Red Cove, and Grole. In ...
The town has a K-12 school called Victoria Academy [3] (as of 2022-23, there are 4 students enrolled), as well as a fire department, public library, Lion's Club, and town hall. The town is only accessible by ferry or helicopter .
Route 360, also known as Bay d'Espoir Highway, is a provincial highway in Newfoundland and Labrador. It runs from the Bishop's Falls area to Bay d'Espoir and Harbour Breton . The road is very isolated for at least 140 kilometres (87 mi), where there are no communities or stops to refuel. [ 1 ]
In 1912, the Sydney Academy hockey club defeated Glace Bay High School, 5–0, on a game played on the frozen Glace Bay harbour. The hockey club went on to win the Cape Breton High School Championship in 1923. In 1922, the Governor-General's Medal was awarded to the top student in the graduating class for the first time at Sydney Academy.
Cape Breton Highlands Educations Centre and Academy (CBHEC/A) is a school located in Terre Noire, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the Cape Breton Highlands in Inverness County.. It is a part of the Strait Regional School Board and is attended by roughly 300 students from grades primary to twelve.
Mortier Bay also served a strategic role during World War II, and was the site selected to evacuate the Royal Family and regroup the British Navy in the event of German invasion of Britain. [2] Currently fish farming and the shipyard remain important to the local economy; [ 3 ] in fact, construction of the world's largest fish hatchery , the ...
Aspy Bay (/ ˈ æ s p i /) [1] is a bay of the Atlantic Ocean near the northern tip of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Principal features along the bay's coast are the Wilkie Sugar Loaf hill and the Aspy Fault. Communities along the bay include Smelt Brook, White Point, South Harbour, and Dingwall.
Clarenville is a town on the east coast of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.Clarenville was incorporated in 1951. It is located in the Shoal Harbour valley, fronting an arm of the Atlantic Ocean called Random Sound.