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HYANNIS — On Dec. 21, the longest night of the year, Cape Cod residents gathered to remember the people who died in 2023 who were experiencing homelessness or had at some point in their lives. ...
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.
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.
South Harbour is an unincorporated area in the Municipality of the County of Victoria, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is on the Cabot Trail, and borders the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. The earliest European-descended settlers were English and Irish families who arrived around 1830.
Among these was a Mr. Cuyler, the former Mayor of Albany, NY, who had forfeited his holdings due to his loyalty to the British Crown and who was eager to settle in the Cape Breton colony. Cape Breton had been separated from the mainland and was declared a colony unto itself in 1784. Jones’ land grant bears the date 19 October 1790.
Port Hood Island is a small island [1] and community of the same name located in the northeastern part of St. George's Bay, a sub-basin in the eastern part of the Northumberland Strait, adjacent to the west coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is named after the community of Port Hood immediately to the east on Cape Breton ...
Located on northeastern Cape Breton Island in the Aspy Bay, Dingwall has traditionally been a fishing community, which remains the town's primary industry, along with tourism. St. St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church was opened in 1901 and rebuilt in the mid-1980s after being destroyed by arson.