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Cape Breton

Proper noun

Meaning

A cape in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ellipsis of Cape Breton Island.

Ellipsis of Cape Breton Regional Municipality. A regional municipality of Cape Breton island, Nova Scotia, Canada

(historical) A former colony of Cape Breton, British North America

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Examples

I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often. Farley Mowat

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. Richard Serra

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island. Natalie MacMaster

19th century In 1820, the Colony of Cape Breton Island was merged back into the Colony of Nova Scotia for the second time by the British government. Source: Internet

Afterward, under the supervision of the last French governor, the French population of Plaisance moved to Île Royale (now Cape Breton Island ), part of Acadia which remained then under French control. Source: Internet

Despard, John; The Companion to British History, Routledge An order forbidding the granting of land in Cape Breton, issued in 1763, was removed in 1784. Source: Internet

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