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Cape Breton Island

noun

  1. an island off SE Canada, in NE Nova Scotia, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Canso: its easternmost point is Cape Breton . Pop: 132 298 (2006). Area: 10 280 sq km (3970 sq miles)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The view never ends from the weathered porch of Joan Jonas’s summer home on a hill in Cape Breton Island, on the tip of Nova Scotia.

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Cabot Point will be the centerpiece of Cabot St. Lucia, the newest golf and resort venture from the group behind Cabot Links on Cape Breton Island in Canada.

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Mr. Frank, a Manhattan resident, had long had a summer home in Mabou, on Cape Breton Island.

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He’d found a site on Cape Breton Island’s western shore that he felt had the potential to be his nation’s Bandon.

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Havia Lewis, 11, visiting last month from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, likes that Anne is “very intelligent. She uses big words.”

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