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Mabou (Scottish Gaelic: Màbu; An Drochaid; [1] [2]) is an unincorporated settlement in the Municipality of the County of Inverness on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The population in 2011 was 1,207 residents. [3] It is the site of The Red Shoe pub, Beinn Mhàbu, [4] the An Drochaid Museum, and Glenora Distillers. [5]
The construction of the Inverness and Richmond Railway in 1901, and the subsequent opening of coal mines at Port Hood, Mabou, and Inverness, created the "only home market" local farmers had ever had. [5] The boundaries of Inverness County had been previously defined when Cape Breton Island was divided by statute into three districts in 1823. In ...
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.
The Cape Breton Regional Municipality is a single municipality. This is a list of unincorporated areas within it, some of which are former municipalities, and some of which correspond to census areas. Estimated populations from the 2001 census are in parentheses. CBRM 2001 population was 109,330.
It is located on Cape Breton Island in Inverness County and connects Mabou at Trunk 19 with Whycocomagh at Highway 105. Communities
Port Hawkesbury (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Chlamhain) is a municipality in southern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. While within the historical county of Inverness, it is not part of the Municipality of Inverness County. Their slogan is "Opportunities Await".
Edwardsville is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island. It is named for King Edward VII . [ 1 ]
Beinn Bhreagh (/ ˌ b ɛ n ˈ v r iː ə / ben VREE-ə) is the name of the former estate of Alexander Graham Bell, in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It refers to a peninsula jutting into Cape Breton Island's scenic Bras d'Or Lake approximately three kilometres (two miles) southeast of the village of Baddeck, forming the southeastern ...