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2. Cape Breton Highlands National Park - Wikipedia

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   Panorama from the Freshwater Lake Lookoff. Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a Canadian national park on northern Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. [2] The park was the first national park in the Atlantic provinces of Canada [3] and covers an area of 948 square kilometres (366 sq mi). [4] It is one of 42 in Canada's system of national parks.

3. Cape Breton Highlands - Wikipedia

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   Precambrian. Mountain type. Fault-block mountains. Climbing. Access. road/hike. The Cape Breton Highlands ( French: Plateau du Cap-Breton, Scottish Gaelic: Àrd-thalamh Cheap Bhreatainn ), commonly called the Highlands, refer to a highland or mountainous plateau across the northern part of Cape Breton Island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

4. Cape Breton Island - Wikipedia

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   Cape Breton Island. /  46.29500°N 60.67000°W  / 46.29500; -60.67000. Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Miꞌkmaq: Unamaꞌki) [5] is a rugged and irregularly shaped island [6] on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of ...

5. Regional tartans of Canada - Wikipedia

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   Regional tartans of Canada are represented by all Canada's provinces and territories having a regional tartan, as do many other regional divisions in Canada. Tartans were first brought to Canada by Scottish settlers ; the first province to adopt one officially was Nova Scotia in 1956 (when registered at the Court of the Lord Lyon; adopted by ...

6. Ingonish - Wikipedia

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   Ingonish is a popular tourist destination in Victoria County, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The regional economy is tied to fishing and tourism. Tourist facilities include Cape Breton Highlands National Park, the Keltic Lodge, a downhill skiing centre, and a public golf course, the Highlands Links .

7. Canadian Gaelic - Wikipedia

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   Canadian Gaelic or Cape Breton Gaelic ( Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Chanada, A' Ghàidhlig Chanadach or Gàidhlig Cheap Bhreatainn ), often known in Canadian English simply as Gaelic, is a collective term for the dialects of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Atlantic Canada . Scottish Gaels were settled in Nova Scotia from 1773, with the arrival of the ...

8. Marconi and Marconi Wireless Station National Historic Sites

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   Marconi National Historic Site, located at Table Head in Glace Bay, is the site of Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station, callsign VAS, and the first wireless message sent from North America to Europe on December 15, 1902. [1] The site features the remnants of Marconi's transmission towers, a modern amateur radio station ...

9. Provinces and territories of Canada - Wikipedia

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   Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...