Cape Breton
Americannoun
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The fossil was found on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, a location known for difficult and sometimes dangerous fieldwork.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
“Queens of the Qing Dynasty,” a new film by Ashley McKenzie, a director from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is an NYT Critic’s Pick.
From New York Times • May 6, 2023
Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, a hard-hit area in Nova Scotia, told CTV Atlantic that “power lines and power poles are everywhere.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2022
“Still holding strong. But it’s getting very scary,” Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, told The Associated Press in the first hours after it hit.
From Washington Times • Sep. 24, 2022
It was the Navy which, by making us masters of Cape Breton in the last war, had secured the restoration of Flanders and the Barrier Fortresses.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
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