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Leon Isaiah Dubinsky (5 July 1941 – 17 January 2023) [1] was a Canadian actor, theatre director and composer from Sydney, Nova Scotia.His career was mostly spent in Atlantic Canada, with film, theatre and music projects generally produced on Cape Breton Island.
The Cape Breton Post is the only daily newspaper published on Cape Breton Island.Founded in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1901, [3] it specializes in local coverage of news, events, and sports from communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and the counties of Inverness, Richmond and Victoria.
Corbett ran for the NDP nomination in the riding of Cape Breton Centre [6] and was first elected in the 1998 provincial election. [7] Corbett was subsequently re-elected in the 1999, 2003, [8] 2006, 2009 [9] and 2013 provincial elections.
William Davis (June 3, 1887 – June 11, 1925) was a coal miner from Cape Breton Island.He was born in Gloucestershire, England and died in New Waterford, Nova Scotia. [1] His name is well-remembered in Nova Scotia due to the annual observance of William Davis Miners' Memorial Day in recognition of Davis and also of all miners killed in the province's coal mines.
The Mother Canada monument, officially the Never Forgotten National Memorial, was a war memorial planned to be built in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. A memorial to Canadian Armed Forces overseas casualties, especially those of World War I , it was intended as a transatlantic complement to the Canadian ...
John W. Morgan, (born May 7, 1964), is a Canadian lawyer, politician, and businessman.He was the mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CRBM) in Nova Scotia from 2000 to 2012.
Alistair MacLeod, OC FRSC (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and ...
[8] [9] The riding of Cape Breton Nova was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundaries review. Gosse was re-elected in the new riding of Sydney-Whitney Pier in the 2013 provincial election with 49.37% and a margin of 550 votes over his closest challenger.