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The Cape Breton Regional Municipality Act was implemented and the CBRM was created on August 1, 1995, whereas the amalgamation in Halifax County didn't take place until April 1, 1996, and Queens County several years later.
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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 and Regional
While the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is in transition from an industrial to a service-based economy, the rest of Cape Breton Island outside of the industrial area surrounding Sydney-Glace Bay has been more stable, with a mixture of fishing, forestry, small-scale agriculture, and tourism.
Highway 125 is an important arterial route around Sydney Harbour in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
* John W. Morgan, Mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality
* Cape Breton Regional Municipality
* Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, an airport ( IATA airport code: CGI ) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States
* Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ), a regional municipality in Nova Scotia
In addition Harwich is also the site of Cape Cod Regional Technical High School a 9 – 12 high school which serves most of Cape Cod.
* Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority
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Cape Breton University ( CBU ), formerly known as the " University College of Cape Breton " ( UCCB ), is a Canadian university in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Category: Education in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
There are no private schools in Wellfleet ; high school students may, however, choose to attend Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich free of charge.
It is situated on the east coast of Cape Breton Island and is administratively part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Category: Communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
There is no rail or air service in town ; the nearest regional air service is at the Chatham Regional Airport, though better and more regularly scheduled air service between the Cape and Boston can be found in Provincetown and Hyannis through Cape Air, and the nearest national and international air service can be found at Logan International Airport in Boston.
Cape and Municipality
* Buffalo City Local Municipality, Eastern Cape Province
The vegetation is generally sparse, with the only patch of forested land being found in Nanortalik Municipality in the extreme south near Cape Farewell.
* OR Tambo District Municipality, Eastern Cape province
* Bala ( South Africa ), a place in the Mbizana Local Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Effective July 1, 2004, the City of Cape May switched to a Council-Manager form of government under the Faulkner Act, after having used Plan A of the Faulkner Act Small Municipality form since 1995.
It is now a single-tier municipality called Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
* The Municipality of the County of Cape Breton
On August 1, 1995 all seven municipal units in the county were dissolved and replaced by a single tier municipality called the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ).
Cape Breton County continues to exist as a county in Nova Scotia, however all municipal government and service delivery is provided by either the Regional Municipality or the First Nations with no additional county level government or administration.
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Cape Verde also is eligible for trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ), and has signed an Open Skies agreement to facilitate air travel safety and expansion.
* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
The British extended the Cape Peace Preservation Act of 1878 to cover Basutoland and attempted to disarm the natives.
* 1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
The TRC was set up in terms of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No. 34 of 1995, and was based in Cape Town.
The university is enabled by the Cape Breton University Act passed by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
It was enabled by the University College of Cape Breton Act ( amended ) The University College of Cape Breton's Coat of Arms were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on May 27, 1995.
The name change became official through the University College of Cape Breton Act ( amended ) which received Royal Assent on May 19, 2005.
What is now Cape May was originally formed as the borough of Cape Island by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 8, 1848, from portions of Lower Township.
Cape May Point operates under the Walsh Act commission form of government, first created to rebuild the city of Galveston, Texas after the devastating Hurricane of 1900.
North Cape May had existed as an independent borough, formed by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 19, 1928, from portions of Lower Township.
West Cape May is a Walsh Act borough in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.
West Cape May was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 17, 1884, from portions of Lower Township, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier.
West Cape May was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 17, 1884, from portions of Lower Township, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier.
Additionally, laws governing the colonies of the British Empire ( including the 1766 amendment to the Sugar Act of 1764 ) used the latitude of Cape Finisterre as the latitude past which certain goods could not be shipped north directly between British colonies.
Under Apartheid, under the Population Registration Act as amended, the term Cape Coloured referred to a subset of Coloured South Africans, with subjective criteria having been used by the bureaucracy to determine whether a person was a Cape Coloured, or belonged to one of a number of other related subgroups such as the " Cape Malays ", or " Other Coloureds ".
The Native Lands Act of 1913 demarcated the reserves in the Union, and made it illegal to sell or lease these lands to Europeans ( except in the Cape Colony ).
All archaeological traces in the Northern Cape that are greater than 100 years old are automatically protected by the South African Heritage Resources Act, while some are formally protected by declaration as either Provincial Heritage Sites ( e. g. Wildebeest Kuil and Nooitgedacht ) or National Heritage Sites ( e. g. Wonderwerk Cave ).
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