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  2. Canso Causeway - Wikipedia

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    The Canso Causeway (Scottish Gaelic: Cabhsair Chanso is a 1,385 m (4,544 ft) rock-fill causeway crossing the Strait of Canso, provides access by road to the Atlantic Ocean, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence or Cape Breton Island to the Nova Scotia peninsula

  3. Cape Breton Island - Wikipedia

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    The island is joined to the mainland by the Canso Causeway. Cape Breton Island is composed of rocky shores, rolling farmland, glacial valleys, barren headlands ...

  4. Cape Breton—Canso - Wikipedia

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    Cape BretonCanso is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. Its population in 2011 was 75,247. It is the successor to Bras d'Or (later known as Bras d'Or—Cape Breton), which was represented in the House of Commons from 1997 to 2004.

  5. Strait of Canso - Wikipedia

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    The Strait of Canso (also Gut of Canso or Canso Strait, also called Straits of Canceau or Canseaux until the early 20th century) separates mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, in eastern Canada.

  6. Canso Canal - Wikipedia

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    The Canso Canal is in the Strait of Canso, on the eastern side of the Canso Causeway, a rock-fill causeway which opened in 1955 to carry a 2-lane highway and a single rail track from Cape Breton Island to mainland Nova Scotia. The canal was built through Balache Point in Inverness County.

  7. Allan J. MacEachen Port Hawkesbury Airport - Wikipedia

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    In December 2017 the Port Hawkesbury town council voted unanimously to rename the airport after Allan J. MacEachen, [8] the former Deputy Prime Minister and MP for Inverness—Richmond and later Cape Breton Highlands—Canso. In May 2018 Airshow Cape Breton was held at the airport, and featured the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds. [9]

  8. Point Tupper, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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    The Intercolonial Railway line continued east from Point Tupper to Sydney, making Point Tupper an extremely important port for the economy of Cape Breton Island. In 1955, the Canso Causeway opened, closing the railcar ferry service and resulting in a decline in Point Tupper's economy as railway facilities were removed or abandoned.

  9. Canso - Wikipedia

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    Canso Islands, a small group of islands off the coast of Canso and a national historic site; Cape Canso, a cape near the abovementioned community in Nova Scotia, Canada; Strait of Canso, between Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia, Canada; Canso Rocks, Graham Land, Antarctica; Canso (crater), a crater on Mars, named after the Nova ...

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