In Canada the provinces of Atlantic Canada are known for being a home of Celtic music, most notably on the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island.

Further, some older forms of Celtic music that are rare in Scotland and Ireland today, such as practice of accompanying a fiddle with a piano, or the Gaelic spinning songs of Cape Breton remain common in the Maritimes.

* Celtic Colours ( Cape Breton, Nova Scotia )

NASA landsat photo of Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island (-formerly Île Royale, Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn, Míkmaq: Únamakika, simply: Cape Breton ) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America.

Cape Breton Island is part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

The island is divided into four of Nova Scotia's eighteen counties: Cape Breton, Inverness, Richmond, and Victoria.

Cape Breton Island has experienced a decline in population of approximately 4. 4 % since the previous census in 2006.

Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.

Cape Breton Island's first residents were likely Maritime Archaic natives, ancestors of the Mi ' kmaq, the latter of whom inhabited the island at the time of European discovery.

However, historians are unclear as to whether Cabot first visited Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

In addition to Cape Breton Island, the French colony of Île Royale also included Île St .- Jean ( today called Prince Edward Island ).

The first permanently settled Scottish community on Cape Breton Island was Judique, settled in 1775 by Michael Mor MacDonald.

In 1993 and 1994, the Cape Breton Breakers of the NBL also played at Centre 200.

The NBL's first game was played on May 1, 1993 when the Cape Breton Breakers visited the Halifax Windjammers.

In 1993 and 1994, the arena was home to the Cape Breton Breakers of the NBL.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

The former Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Solomon Passy proposed, Cape Verde may enter the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the NATO.

While more recent Muslim immigrants hold Friday prayers at Cape Breton University and the former Holy Redeemer Hall in Whitney Pier.

The Men of the Deeps are a male choral group of current and former miners from the industrial Cape Breton area.

* Cape Breton Crush, former team of the defunct Canadian Elite Hockey League

* Cape Breton Oilers, former team of the American Hockey League

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

In 1961, a volcanic eruption forced the evacuation of the entire population via Cape Town to wooden huts in the disused Pendell Army Camp in Merstham, Surrey, England, before moving to a more permanent site at a former Royal Air Force station in Calshot near Southampton, England, living mainly in a road called Tristan Close.

* USTS Kennedy ( T-AK-5059 ), former USTS Enterprise ( 2003 – 2008 ), SS Cape Bon ( 1985 – 2003 ), and SS Velma Lykes ( 1967 – 1985 ).

* Northern Cape province, South Africa, in line with reference to the former Cape Province as simply The Province, particularly in rugby union.

Monte Circeo or Cape Circeo (, ) is a mountain remaining as a promontory that marks the southwestern limit of the former Pontine Marshes.

Statistics Canada classifies Sydney as a medium population centre which for census purposes includes the neighbouring communities of Westmount, a significant portion of Sydney River, and a other portions of the former Cape Breton County.

In the former Dutch colony which is present day Cape Town, slaves were named after the months in which they were purchased.

The club's former logo briefly appears in the video for Get Cape.

Inspired by blackface minstrels who visited Cape Town, South Africa in 1848, former Javanese and Malaysian slaves took up the minstrel tradition, holding emancipation celebrations which consisted of music, dancing and parades.

Notable current and former residents of Cape May include:

Notable current and former residents of Cape May Court House include:

Notable current and former residents of Cape May Point include:

In 1713, to help establish the northern colony's claim along the eastern bank, Thomas Smith, son of former Carolina governor Thomas Smith, Sr. was issued a land grant to what we now call Smith Island ( called " Cape Island " at the time ).

Cape Charles still serves as a terminal for railway barges that carry rail cars from the former Eastern Shore Railroad which is now Bay Coast Railroad across the mouth of the Bay to Norfolk.

In 1168, the Danish king, Valdemar I, and his army commander and advisor, Bishop Absalon of Roskilde destroyed the Svetovid temple in the hillfort at Cape Arkona, ending both the territorial and religious autonomy of the Rani, their former monarchs became Danish princes of Rügen.

The region bears the former name of what is now Hawke Bay, a large semi-circular bay which extends for 100 kilometres from northeast to southwest from Mahia Peninsula to Cape Kidnappers.

In the former Portuguese Africa ( now known as Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde ) racial mixing between white Portuguese and black Africans was fairly common, especially in Cape Verde where the majority of the population is of mixed descent.

* Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, current team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

* 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human ( 53-year-old Louis Washkansky ).

In the Second Test at Cape Town, Benaud took 4 / 95 and then 5 / 49 in the second innings to secure an innings victory after the home team were forced to follow on.

From 1988 to 1996, Sydney was home to the Cape Breton Oilers of the AHL, the primary farm team of the NHL's Edmonton Oilers.

On 28 January 1954, Dr. Wernher von Braun and his team launched Redstone missile No. 2 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

* Franco, Jean, Makalu: 8470 metres ( 27, 790 feet ): the highest peak yet conquered by an entire team, J. Cape, 1957.

Attenborough visits the hut at Cape Evans where Scott and his team spent the winter of 1911.

In the same year, 1958, D F Smith, District Assistant and a team of 11 Africans ( 2 of whom claimed to know where Cape Akalunga was ) visited Mporokoso area to

* Cape Breton Oilers, a former American Hockey League team

CBRM is home to several performance centres, including the Centre 200 sports arena in Sydney ( home to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles QMJHL team ) and the historic Savoy Theatre, in Glace Bay.

* Cape Fear Crocs, a former minor league baseball team

* South Georgia Wildcats, an indoor football team in Arena Football 2 previously known as the Cape Fear Wildcats

* December 3-Dr Christiaan Barnard and a team including his brother Marius perform the first successful human heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, on Louis Washkansky, who survives for eighteen days.

He was granted dual Zimbabwean-British citizenship in 1992, having gained a British passport earlier by virtue of having an ancestor born in Cape Town Castle at the time of the Boer War, to play for the Zimbabwe national football team.

The Stormers, for sponsorship reasons referred to as DHL Stormers, is a South African rugby union team based in Cape Town competing in the Super Rugby competition ( formerly Super 14 ).

With the support of John Arlott, and the members and supporters of St Augustine's Cricket Club in Cape Town, he emigrated to England in 1960, where the journalist John Kay found him a place in his Central Lancashire League team of Middleton.

Amesbury High School competes in the Cape Ann League and their team name is the Amesbury Indians ( sometimes referred to as the Fighting Indians ).

AFC Ajax have for instance a connection with the South African team Ajax Cape Town, Manchester United have a connection with the Australian team Wollongong Wolves and the Belgian team Royal Antwerp, and Lithuanian side FBK Kaunas have loaned many of their younger players out to their Scottish parent team Heart of Midlothian in the hope of securing them a deal at a bigger club in the future.

During the 1994 season there were rumours that the Cape Breton team was going to move to Saint John in mid-season, which never happened before the league folded on July 9, 1994.