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  2. Cape Breton County - Wikipedia

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    Cape Breton County is one of eighteen counties in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located on Cape Breton Island . From 1879 to 1995, the area of the county excluded from towns and cities was incorporated as the Municipality of the County of Cape Breton to provide local government services.

  3. Municipality of the County of Inverness - Wikipedia

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    The Municipality of the County of Inverness is a county municipality on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.It provides local government to about 17,000 residents of the historical county of the same name, except for the incorporated town of Port Hawkesbury and the Whycocomagh 2 Miꞌkmaq reserve, both of which are enclaves.

  4. Energy policy of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Federal involvement in Cape Breton, continued with the Cape Breton Development Corporation, or Devco which was in reality a large subsidy. The completion of the trans-Canada pipeline, nuclear reactors and the Hibernia oil fields have finished [further explanation needed] coal in Nova Scotia.

  5. Cumberland Railway and Coal Company - Wikipedia

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    The same investors also created the Pugwash and Spring Hill Railway Company, which received a charter to build a line north to the Northumberland Strait port of Pugwash from which coal could be shipped to northern Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, eastern New Brunswick and Quebec. Both railway lines were promised a subsidy that year by the ...

  6. List of counties of Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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    Counties of Nova Scotia (1862) with township subdivisions. The Canadian province of Nova Scotia has a historical system of 18 counties that originally had appointed court systems for local administration before the establishment of elected local governments in 1879.

  7. Cape Breton Island - Wikipedia

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    Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Mi'kmaq: Unama'ki) [5] is a rugged and irregularly shaped island [6] on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

  8. Inverness County, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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    Inverness County is an historical county and census division of Nova Scotia, Canada located on Cape Breton Island. Local government is provided by the Municipality of the County of Inverness , the town of Port Hawkesbury and the Whycocomagh 2 Waycobah First Nation reserve.

  9. Municipality of the County of Richmond - Wikipedia

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    The Municipality of the County of Richmond is a county municipality on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It provides local government to the eponymous historical county, except for the Chapel Island 5 reserve. The municipality also contains the village of St. Peter's. Municipal office are at Arichat.