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Loudoun's plan for the 1757 campaign was submitted to the government in London in September 1756, focused on a single expedition aimed at the heart of New France in the city of Quebec. It called for a purely defensive posture along the frontier with New France, including the contested corridor of the Hudson River and Lake Champlain between ...
The total population at the 2016 census numbered 132,010 Cape Bretoners, which is approximately 15% of the provincial population. [4] Cape Breton Island has experienced a decline in population of approximately 2.9% since the 2011 census.
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.
Sydney Harbour [1] (Mi'kmawi'simk: L'sipuktuk) is the 10-mile long Y-shaped inlet of the Atlantic, oriented southwest-northeast on the northeast shore of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. At its upper reaches, the harbour forks to form two arms: the Northwest Arm and the South Arm. The South Arm is fed upstream by the Sydney River.
Howie MacDonald, Cape Breton fiddler, [4] Conservative candidate for the Sydney—Victoria district, during the 2004 [5] and 2006 federal elections [6] Peter Mancini, politician, lawyer, MP for Sydney—Victoria (1997–2000) [7] David Mathews, British Loyalist who was active during the American Revolution, Mayor of New York City (1776–1783) [8]
Fort Ste. Anne is a former French military fort located at present-day Englishtown, Nova Scotia, on the Island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The fort was built by Captain Charles Daniel (1629) after he raided Baleine. [1] The fort was occupied from 1639 to 1641. Fort Saint Anne is a National Historic Site. [2] [3] Fort Dauphin, 1755
It consisted of two islands, Île Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) and Île Saint-Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island). It was ceded to the British Empire after the Seven Years' War, and is today part of Canada.
The Canso Causeway was built at a narrow location on the Strait of Canso, about 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) northwest of Port Hawkesbury and Mulgrave, [6] crossing from Cape Porcupine near Auld's Cove on the Nova Scotia side to Port Hastings on the Cape Breton side. About 10,092,000 t (9,933,000 long tons) of rock for building the causeway was ...