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.

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

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.

* Cape Breton Oilers, a former American Hockey League team

After, his retirement, he was head coach of the Toledo Goaldiggers, IHL Colorado Rangers ( co-coach ), Denver Rangers, CHL Fort Worth Fire and the AHL Cape Breton Oilers.

He went on to record 2 goals and 11 points over 48 games as a rookie, while also spending time in the American Hockey League ( AHL ) with the Oilers ' minor league affiliate, the Cape Breton Oilers.

The Hamilton Bulldogs Hockey Club was established in 1996 after re-locating from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where the team played several years as the Cape Breton Oilers.

From 1988 to 1996, the arena was home to professional ice hockey, the American Hockey League's Cape Breton Oilers, until the parent Edmonton Oilers elected to relocate the team to Hamilton, Ontario.

They made subsequent appearances in the second round, losing 4 – 0 in 1993 to the eventual Calder Cup champion Cape Breton Oilers, and lost the second round in their remaining appearances, all of which were won by the conference champions for the season, losing 4 – 2 to the Moncton Hawks in 1994, 4 – 3 to the Hamilton Bulldogs in 1997, and 4 – 0 to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in 2002.

Prior to the Eagles ' arrival, Sydney played host to the AHL's Cape Breton Oilers from 1988 to 1996.

In 1994 – 95, Šatan played a season in the minor leagues, split between four teams including the Oilers ' farm club in Cape Breton and the IHL's Detroit Vipers.

Many players graduated in 1992 for professional careers, and Coach Burnett was promoted to the Cape Breton Oilers of the AHL.

Výborný came over to North America for the 1994 – 95 season and played for the Cape Breton Oilers of the American Hockey League ( AHL ).

De Vries was signed from junior team Niagara Falls Thunder of the Ontario Hockey League and made his professional debut at the end of the 1993 – 94 season with Oilers affiliate, the Cape Breton Oilers of the American Hockey League ( AHL ).

In 1993 the Indians made the conference finals before being devastated by eventual champion Cape Breton Oilers.

He also played 49 games in the American Hockey League ( AHL ) between his time with the Binghamton Rangers and Cape Breton Oilers.

In 1993 – 94, his first pro season, he played games with the Rangers, their AHL affiliate in Binghamton, and the Oilers and their own affiliate in Cape Breton.

Category: Cape Breton Oilers

Category: Cape Breton Oilers players

After spending most of seven seasons in the minor leagues ( with the Cape Breton Oilers, Hamilton Bulldogs and Cincinnati Mighty Ducks ), with only three NHL games ( with Edmonton and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim ), Ferguson landed a regular job with the Oilers as a sixth / seventh defenceman, where he would play the following three seasons.

* 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.

Cape May Stage, an Equity theater founded in 1988, performs at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse on the corner of Bank and Lafayette Streets.

The Cape May Fisherman's Memorial was erected over the harbor in 1988 and dedicated to fishermen lost at sea.

In 1988 Cape Town based record label, Mountain Records, recorded a studio album of Mwenda's music and issued it in 1994.

* MNZ MM002092, collected Cape Kidnappers, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, 14 October 1988.

Cape May received a brand-new terminal to replace the existing structure, built in 1988.

Between 1983 and 1990, she finished the novels The Hustler ’ s Grotto of Christopher Street ( 1983 ), The Burning of St Mark ’ s Church ( 1985 ), Between Heaven and Earth ( 1988 ), Woodstock Phallus Cutter ( 1988 ), Aching Chandelier ( 1989 ), Double Suicide at Sakuragazuka ( 1989 ), and Angels in Cape Cod ( 1990 ), alongside several issues of the magazine S & M Sniper in collaboration with photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

It was published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape in London, with illustrations by Quentin Blake.

* Touching the Void ( Jonathan Cape ) 1988

In 1988 the Cape Florida base marker was recovered from under water and installed near the Cape Florida lighthouse.

Hurricane Gilbert was an extremely powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season and brought widespread destruction to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

Other promoters have run pylon racing events across the USA and Canada, including races in Las Vegas, NV in 1965, Lancaster, CA in 1965 and 1966, Mojave, California in 1970-71, and 1973-79 ; at Cape May, NJ in 1971, San Diego, CA in 1971, Miami, FL in 1973 and 1979, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1984 ; Hamilton Field, California, in 1988 ; at Dallas, TX in 1990, in Denver, CO in 1990 and 1992, in Kansas City in 1993, in Phoenix, Arizona in 1994 and 1995 ; and in Tunica, Mississippi in 2005.

In the summers of 1988 and 1989, he pitched for the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

On 20 May 1988, the bulk carrier Korean Star ran aground in bad weather near Cape Cuvier, within the port limits of Carnarvon.

Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1988 ; ISBN 0-86486-102-8

In June 1988, Mufamadi headed a planning committee to organise an anti-apartheid conference in Cape Town, which aimed to include delegates from a broad spectrum of anti-apartheid organisations.

In September 1988, the government prohibited the conference and restricted the organisers of the conference from entering Cape Town for a ten-day period.

Keshia Chanté was born in Ottawa, Ontario on June 16, 1988 to a father of Trinidadian descent and a mother of Cape Verdean descent.

He married, 1st, in 1940 Mavis Lynette Gordon Murray ( d. 1988 ), daughter of Edwin Edward Murray, of Hermanus, Cape Province, South Africa.