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.

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Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.

The French population numbered about 75, 000 and was heavily concentrated along the St. Lawrence River valley, with some also in Acadia ( present-day New Brunswick and parts of Nova Scotia ), Île Royale ( present-day Cape Breton Island ).

The most significant incident was the capture of the French Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island ( Île Royale ) by an expedition ( 29 April – 16 June 1745 ) of colonial militia organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, commanded by William Pepperrell of Maine ( then part of Massachusetts ), and assisted by a Royal Navy fleet.

The Treaty of Utrecht resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay and Newfoundland colonies, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) as the successor to Acadia.

Present-day Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton were conceded by Britain to France and renamed Île Saint-Jean and Île Royale.

Present-day New Brunswick and most of Maine remained contested territory, while New England conceded present-day Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island, which France quickly renamed Île St Jean and Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) respectively.

In the meantime, the French signalled their preparedness for future hostilities by beginning the construction of Fortress Louisbourg on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island.

The Treaty of Utrecht resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay and Newfoundland, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) as the successor to Acadia.

Although the treaty turned Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and part of Acadia ( peninsular Nova Scotia ) over to Great Britain, France remained in control of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) ( which also administered Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ).

The British defeated France in Acadia in the Battle of Fort Beausejour ( 1755 ) and then Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) ( which also administered Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) with the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ).

France retained its other pre-war North American possessions, including Île-Saint-Jean ( now Prince Edward Island ) as well as Île Royale ( now Cape Breton Island ), on which it erected the Fortress of Louisbourg.

Louisbourg, on Cape Breton Island. French settlement on Île Royale ( now Cape Breton Island ) can be traced to the early 17th century following settlements in Acadia that were concentrated on Baie Française ( now the Bay of Fundy ) such as at Port-Royal and other locations in present-day peninsular Nova Scotia.

They were Acadia, Canada, Newfoundland, Louisiana, Île-Royale ( present-day Cape Breton Island ), and Île Saint Jean ( present-day Prince Edward Island ).

In her honor, a small island, off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, which at that time was known as " L ' Île Royale ", was attributed to her ; this island was named Isle Madame ( first noted as l ' Isle de la Marquise ).

From 1749 – 55, there was massive Acadian migration out of British-occupied mainland Nova Scotia and into French-occupied Ile Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ), Ile Royale ( Cape Breton ) and present-day New Brunswick.

Thousands of Acadians were deported from Ile Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) and Ile Royale ( Cape Breton ).

* Construction of Fortress Louisbourg by the French begins on Ile Royale ( Cape Breton Island ).

* Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Ile Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) and Ile Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) to French.

By proclamation of October 17, 1763, after termination of the Seven Years ' War, Île Royale was renamed Cape Breton Island and was formally annexed to Nova Scotia.

The French Population moved to Ile Royale ( Cape Breton ).

Upon taking control of Ile Royale, Britain renamed it to Cape Breton Island and merged the territory into the Colony of Nova Scotia.

* In 1994, Guy Delage was the first man to allegedly swim across the Atlantic Ocean ( with the help of a kick board, from Cape Verde to Barbados ).

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

Rogers ' A cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope was published in 1712 and included an account of Selkirk's ordeal.

Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).

Ajax Cape Town was set up with the help of Rob Moore.

As a result scurvy broke out, and in October 1788 Phillip had to send Sirius to Cape Town for supplies, and strict rationing was introduced, with thefts of food punished by hanging.

She was returning to her California home following a holiday on Cape Cod.

By then they had probably developed a taste for Madeira wine, and on 29 September near Cape Charles all they took from the Betty of Virginia was her cargo of Madeira, before they scuttled her with the remaining cargo.

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

Schooner Carroll A. Deering, as seen from the Cape Lookout ( North Carolina ) | Cape Lookout lightvessel on January 29, 1921, two days before she was found deserted in North Carolina.

A five-masted schooner built in 1919, the Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on January 31, 1921.

The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

In 1901, he was caught planning to sabotage strategic British installations in Cape Town and sentenced to life in prison ; however, he escaped and was re-captured several times again throughout his life.

At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.

The Cape Verde archipelago was uninhabited when the Portuguese discovered it in 1456.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

This was compounded by transportation problems-the coffee-growing areas were mainly on the Central Valley and only had access to the port in Puntarenas on the Pacific Coast, and before the Panama Canal was opened, ships from Europe had to sail around Cape Horn in order to get to the Pacific Coast.

This set of British triumphs which left Cape Sable as the only major French holding in North America was not destined to last.