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Baddeck and became
Both Mabel and Alec became immersed in the Baddeck community and were accepted by the villagers as " their own ".

Baddeck and tourist
Until the early 2000s when its economy was tied to the steel industry, Sydney had been overlooked as a tourist destination, with the more centrally located scenic village of Baddeck being a preferred location for tourists transiting the Cabot Trail, however Sydney has recently witnessed a revival as a result of significant government investment in cruise ship facilities and a waterfront revitalization plan which has seen a boardwalk and marinas constructed, and the world's largest fiddle.

Baddeck and with
Baddeck would be the site of his experiments with hydrofoil technologies as well as the Aerial Experiment Association, financed by his wife, which saw the first powered flight in the British Empire when the AEA Silver Dart took off from the ice-covered waters of Bras d ' Or Lake.
On returning to Bell's large laboratory at his Beinn Bhreagh estate near Baddeck, Nova Scotia, they experimented with a number of designs, culminating in Bell's HD-4.
The Cabot Trail is now advertised with its start and end-point in Baddeck, bypassing the traditional western approach to the Cabot Trail through Judique, Port Hood, Inverness and Margaree Harbour, and thus decreasing tourism traffic on the Ceilidh Trail.
The aviation age came to Canada on 23 February 1909, when Alexander Graham Bell's Silver Dart took off from the ice of Bras d ' Or Lake at Baddeck, Nova Scotia with J. D.
According to some historians the name Baddeck is derived from the Mi ' kmaq term " Abadak " which has been translated as " place with an island near " ( in reference to Kidston Island, immediately offshore ).
Tourism grew even more following the construction of the Cabot Trail in 1932, with Baddeck being situated at the start and end of the loop.
Baddeck had a strong relationship with its most famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell.
Today, Bell's work is commemorated with the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, which houses a museum showcasing his work.

Baddeck and 1874
* Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing ( 1874 ), travels in Nova Scotia and elsewhere

Baddeck and by
Whale-watching cruises are operated by numerous vendors from Baddeck to Cheticamp.
The forward two foil assemblies of what is believed to be the latter hydrofoil were salvaged in the mid-1960s from a derelict hulk in Baddeck, Nova Scotia by Colin MacGregor Stevens.
Baddeck was home to Alexander Graham Bell and was witness to the first flight in the commonwealth by Bell's Silver Dart in 1909.
The Old Baddeck Post Office, designed by Thomas Fuller ( architect ) | Thomas Fuller
On February 23, 1909, Bell's AEA Silver Dart was the first airplane to take flight in the commonwealth, taking off from the frozen Baddeck Bay piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
Their fourth flying machine, the Silver Dart, constructed in 1908, made the first controlled powered flight in Canada on 23 February 1909 when it was flown off the ice of Bras d ' Or Lake near Baddeck by McCurdy, who had been one of its designers.
After demonstrating their airplanes using tricycle landing wheels and other innovations, Bell's laboratory on Beinn Bhreagh designed and built a hydrofoil boat-the HD4-which set a water speed record of 71 MPH ( 63 knots ) in 1919., an experimental 1960s-era Canadian Forces hydrofoil, reportedly the world's fastest warship ever built, was named Bras d ' Or in honor of the hydrofoils tested long before on Baddeck Bay in the Bras d ' Or Lake by Bell.
This 40-foot ( 12. 2 m ) long, 200 pound ( 91 kilogram ) kite was towed by a steamer offshore near Baddeck, Nova Scotia on 6 December 1907 and carried a man 168 feet ( 51. 2 metres ) above the water.

Baddeck and .
Following his successful invention of the telephone and being relatively wealthy, Bell acquired land near Baddeck in 1885, largely due to surroundings reminiscent of his early years in Scotland.
A full-scale replica of Bell's HD-4 is viewable at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site museum in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
The Canadian Armed Forces built and tested a number of hydrofoils ( e. g. Baddeck and two vessels named Bras d ' Or ), which culminated in the high-speed anti-submarine hydrofoil HMCS Bras d ' Or in the late 1960s.
Sydney's accommodation sector is centrally located to attractions in Louisbourg ( home of the Fortress of Louisbourg ), Glace Bay ( home of the Glace Bay Miners Museum ), Baddeck ( home of the Alexander Graham Bell Museum ), as well as popular touring destinations such as the Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, and Bras d ' Or Lake.
Leonowens appears as a character in Paul Marlowe's novel Knights of the Sea, in which she travels from Halifax to Baddeck in 1887 to take part in a campaign to promote women's suffrage during a by-election.
The shire town and largest municipality is the village of Baddeck.
There are several distinctive geographic regions in Victoria county: north of Smokey Mountain, south of Smokey Mountain, St. Ann's Bay, Boularderie Island, Baddeck, Middle River and the Washabuck Peninsula.
A second aircraft, the Baddeck No. 1, was flown a few days later, but was severely damaged on its second landing.
Baddeck (; 2011 population: 769 ) is a Canadian village in Victoria County, Nova Scotia.
Today, Baddeck functions as a service centre for the sparsely populated county and hosts a well-equipped volunteer fire department, a consolidated school serving grades Primary-12, as well as a public library, provincial government offices, a hospital, a branch of the Royal Canadian Legion and a nursing home.

became and tourist
The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.
At the end of the century, the administration of the city hall and the city underwent diverse structural changes with the opening of several avenues, hospitals, cultural spaces and it became one of the main tourist destinations in the Northeast and in Brazil.
Soon many gas wells were drilled in the area, and the gas-lit streets of Fredonia became a tourist attraction.
The castle became a tourist destination from the 18th century onwards, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth in 1826.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Balaton became a major tourist destination for ordinary working Hungarians and especially for subsidised holiday excursions for union members.
* The Republic of Kugelmugel, founded by an Austrian artist and based in a ball-shaped house in Vienna, which quickly became a tourist attraction.
It became a popular tourist attraction, and Emil Zátopek was among those who visited the store trying to meet Nurmi.
Though their project, like others in the state, had to contend with the Great Depression and World War II, work continued as Colonial Williamsburg became a major tourist attraction.
During the Roman conquest, Spartans continued their way of life, and the city became a tourist attraction for the Roman elite who came to observe exotic Spartan customs.
It was subsequently abandoned, and by Roman times its ruins became a tourist attraction.
In Québec, Val-Jalbert is a well-known tourist ghost town ; founded in 1901 around a mechanical pulp mill which became obsolete when paper mills began to break down wood fibre by chemical means, it was abandoned when the mill closed in 1927 and re-opened as a park in 1960.
Monmouth later became a tourist centre at the heart of the Wye Valley, as well as a market town.
It became a stop on tourist routes of the area in the 19th century.
At this time, her coffin lid was accidentally raised, revealing her corpse, which for generations became a tourist attraction.
In the 19th century, the tourist industry became a major commercial outlet, with the grand hotels of Montreux attracting the rich and cultured from Europe and America.
It turned out, however, that the resulting Lake Tisza became one of the most popular tourist destinations in Hungary, since it had similar features to Lake Balaton at drastically cheaper prices and it was not crowded.
With steam locomotives providing fast and affordable travel, the seaside became a popular tourist destination, and generated its own souvenir-industry: the picture postcard was, and is, an essential staple of this industry.
During the 1970s Crete became a major tourist destination for Greek and international tourists, something that gave a significant boost to the city's economy and affected the everyday life and the overall culture of the locals.
Opened in the late 18th century, the underground cemetery became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1874.
On September 18, 2006, an Iranian American named Anousheh Ansari became the fourth space tourist ( Soyuz TMA-9 ).
Simonyi became the first repeat space tourist, paying again to fly on Soyuz TMA-14 in March – April 2009.
Canadian Guy Laliberté became the next space tourist in September, 2009 aboard Soyuz TMA-16.
The Preservation Society of Newport County began opening Newport's historic mansions to the public, and the tourist industry became Newport's primary commercial enterprise over the subsequent years.
India became the top source market for Israel from Asia in 2010 with 41, 000 tourist arrivals in that year.
In the last half of the 19th century, Bruges became one of the world's first tourist destinations attracting wealthy British and French tourists.

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