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List of communities in Inverness County, Nova Scotia These are all unincorporated areas within the jurisdiction of the Municipality of the County of Inverness except the incorporated town of Port Hawkesbury .
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.
Gloria Faye Brennan (12 September 1948 – 2 November 1985) was an Aboriginal community leader and public servant from Western Australia, of Pindiini (Nyanganyatjara) descent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Brennan advocated on a number of issues, including: Aboriginal land rights, welfare for women and children, Aboriginal education and health, the need for ...
1950s: Telephone lines first proposed as a medium for the delivery of interpreting services. [1] 1973: Australia introduces telephone interpretation as a fee-free service to respond to its growing immigrant communities. [2] 1981: The first Over-the-Phone Interpretation (OPI) service is offered in the United States. [3] [self-published source?]
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 ...
Directly delivered services include services such fire, public works, roads, as well as the municipally owned and operated electrical and water utilities. The municipality participates in shared services, such as library services and policing. The town's municipal operating budget was $7.8 million in the 2018/19 fiscal year.
Inverness (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Inbhir Nis) is a Canadian rural community in Inverness County, Nova Scotia. It is about an hour's drive north from the Canso Causeway and about an hour south from Cape Breton Highlands National Park. In 2021, its population was 1,228, down 1.6% from 2016. [1]
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]