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Cabot and Trail
This discovery is commemorated by Cape Breton's Cabot Trail, and by Cabot's Landing Historic Site & Provincial Park, located near the village of Dingwall.
The Cabot Trail scenic highway also encircles the coastal perimeter of the plateau.
Tourism in particular has grown throughout the post-Second World War era, especially the growth in vehicle-based touring, which was furthered by the creation of the Cabot Trail scenic drive.
The Cabot Trail is a scenic road circuit around and over the Cape Breton Highlands with spectacular coastal vistas ; over 400, 000 visitors drive the Cabot Trail each summer and fall.
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.
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.
In the early years of the 20th century the term auto trail was used for a marked highway route, and trail is now also used to designate routes, including highway routes, designated for tourist interest ( e. g. National Historic Trails, the Cabot Trail and Quilt Trail ).
Cabot Trail Relay Race-185 mile relay race in 17 stages around the Cabot Trail in Baddeck, Nova Scotia
One-third of the Cabot Trail passes through the park featuring spectacular ocean and mountain views.
File: cabot trail 2009k. JPG | The Cabot Trail viewed from the Skyline Hiking Trail
Construction of Highway 105 ( the Trans-Canada Highway ) between North Sydney and the Canso Causeway in the 1960s resulted in the re-routing of most Cabot Trail tourism traffic.
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.

Cabot and Cape
However, historians are unclear as to whether Cabot first visited Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island.
The colony of Cape Breton Island had its capital at Sydney on its namesake harbour fronting on Spanish Bay and the Cabot Strait.
* The Cabot Strait between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island ( 104 km wide and 480 m at its deepest ).
The Cabot Strait lies north of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Cabot Strait (;, ) is a strait in eastern Canada approximately 110 kilometres wide between Cape Ray, Newfoundland and Cape North, Cape Breton Island.
That same year Bishop John T. Mullock, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland, proposed a telegraph line through the forest from St. John's to Cape Ray, and cables across the mouth of the St. Lawrence River from Cape Ray to Nova Scotia across the Cabot Strait.
The Cabot Trail viewed from the Skyline Trail ( Cape Breton Highlands National Park ) | Skyline Trail
It is named after the explorer John Cabot who landed in Atlantic Canada in 1497, although most historians agree his landfall likely took place in Newfoundland and not Cape Breton Island.
The northern section of the Cabot Trail passes through Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
* Cape North, the northernmost point of the Cabot Trail and home of the North Highlands Community Museum.
This coastal route along the Gulf of St. Lawrence is located on the west coast of Cape Breton Island in Inverness County and runs from the Canso Causeway in Port Hastings to Margaree Harbor where it intersects with the Cabot Trail.
When Cabot first saw land he ’ s reputed to have said " O Buon Vista " (“ Oh, Happy Sight !”) giving rise to the name of the town and nearby Cape Bonavista.
The explorer John Cabot is believed to have visited present-day Cape Breton in 1497, although this claim is also contested by Newfoundland.
The Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts ( also known informally as the Gaelic College ) is a Canadian educational institution located in the community of St. Ann's on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island along the Cabot Trail.
Chéticamp () is a fishing community on the Cabot Trail on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia at the western entrance to Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
* John Cabot memorial at Aspy Bay Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Cabot and Breton
Eastern parts had previously been visited by the Norse, as well as Basque, Galician and Breton fishermen, and perhaps the Corte-Real brothers and John Cabot ( in addition of course to the Natives who first inhabited the territory ).
St. Paul Island ( AST ) is a small uninhabited island located approximately northeast of Cape North on Cape Breton Island and southwest of Cape Ray on Newfoundland ; it is along the boundary between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Cabot Strait.
Boularderie Island ( pronounced " bull-la-dree ") is an island separating the Cabot Strait from Bras d ' Or Lake on the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The East Coast episode was filmed on location in Nova Scotia, including Peggy's Cove and the highlands of Cape Breton, along the Cabot Trail.

Cabot and Highlands
The Highlands are surrounded by water with the Atlantic Ocean on the east, the Cabot Strait to the north and east, the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the north and west, and Bras d ' Or Lake to the south.

Cabot and Trunk
The Trunk 30 road named the " Cabot Trail " loops from Exit 7 on Nova Scotia Highway 105 at Buckwheat Corner to Exit 11 on Highway 105 at South Haven.
The scenic travelway known as the " Cabot Trail " includes all of Trunk 30, as well as the portion of Highway 105 between exits 7 and 11.

Cabot and 19
John Stevens Cabot Abbott ( September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877 ), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.
# Cabot, Arkansas – $ 19, 020
Francis Higginson Cabot, ( August 6, 1925 – November 19, 2011 ) was an American gardener and horticulturist.
Cabot died at his summer home in La Malbaie on November 19, 2011.

Cabot and along
Southward view of the Cabot Mini-Mall along First Street in downtown Cabot in December 2006
Highway 89, which follows the same path as West Main Street in Cabot, was redirected around City Plaza along one block of Second Street, to continue its path along Pine Street just south of the Cabot High School campus.
View of the commercial and residential establishments that exist at Pleasant Bay, Nova Scotia | Pleasant Bay, along the Cabot Trail's northern-most segment
Of the 600 Canadian Important Bird Areas only seven report the Red-headed Woodpecker in their area: Cabot Head, Ontario on the Georgian Bay side of the tip of Bruce Peninsula ; Carden Plain, Ontario east of Lake Simcoe ; Long Point Peninsula and Marshes, Ontario along Lake Erie near London, Ontario ; Point Abino, Ontario on Lake Erie near Niagara Falls ; Port Franks Forested Dunes, Ontario northeast of Sarnia on Lake Huron ; Kinosota / Leifur, Manitoba at the northwest side of Lake Manitoba south of the Narrows and east of Riding Mountain National Park ; and along South Saskatchewan River from Empress, Alberta to Lancer Ferry in Saskatchewan.
John Cabot, sailing from Bristol, took the small ship Matthew along the coasts of a " New Found Land ".
The primary difficulty with this location for Cabot Cove is that a person traveling south or southwest towards Portland, along U. S. Route 1 and making a right hand turn off the highway would be turning west or northwest, away from the Atlantic Ocean, not east towards the ocean where one would expect to find a place called Cabot Cove.
Chéticamp extends itself for four kilometres along the Cabot Trail.
The American historian James L. Cabot has gone so far as to claim descent from the Aesti, partly on the basis of his family's origin in East Prussia, and partly the fact that his surname is part of a European pattern of names denoting " Coaster " (' One who trades along the coast ')— e. g., English Cabot, East Prussian Kabat, Italian Caboto, and Crimean Kbat.
He supported the annexation of the Philippines and along with Republican leader Henry Cabot Lodge he campaigned for the construction of a new navy.
A year earlier, Hartman starred in Miracle on 34th Street, a remake of the holiday classic, along with Jane Alexander and Sebastian Cabot.
Beginning at the point of intersection with the Meridian of 57 degrees West Longitude and the shoreline of the southwest coast, located east of the community of Grey River ; Thence running due north along the Meridian of 57 degrees West Longitude to its intersection with the Parallel of 48 degrees 30 minutes North Latitude ; Thence running west along the Parallel of 48 degrees 30 minutes North Latitude to its intersection with the Meridian of 58 degrees West Longitude ; Thence running in a southwesterly direction to the point of land known as Red Rocks, located on the eastern shoreline of Cabot Strait, north of Cape Ray ; Thence running in a general easterly direction along the sinuosities of the southwest coast to the point of beginning, together with Burgeo Island, Ramea Island and all other islands adjacent thereto.
The Cabot Trail, which is usually used to describe a different road, is signed along a portion of Highway 105 so that the signed route forms a loop.

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