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Historical Markers and War Memorials on Cape Breton Island Region

 
By Cosmos Mariner, July 21, 2019
Marconi Wireless Station Marker
(wide view • Old Glace Bay Town Hall in background)
1 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Glace Bay — Marconi Wireless Station / La Station de Communication Sans Fil de Marconi —
2 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Glace Bay — Transatlantic Wireless / T.S.F. Transatlantique / Radiotelegrafico Transatlantico —
3 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — 19th-Century Lighthouse — Le phare construit au XIXᵉ siècle —
4 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — Canada’s First Observatory — Le premier observatoire au Canada —
5 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — First Lighthouse — Le premier phare —
6 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — First Lighthouse Tower —
7 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — Fizel House — Maison Fizel —
8 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — Fortress of Louisbourg — La forteresse de Louisbourg —
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9 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — French Garrison at Louisbourg —
10 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — French Naval Guns —
11 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — Kennelly Point —
12 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — Lighthouse Point — La pointe du phare —
13 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — Louisbourg Harbour — Le port de Louisbourg —
14 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — Marie Marguerite Rose — (1717-1757) —
15 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — Slavery / Freedom — Esclavage / Liberté —
16 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — 9 — Sydney and Louisbourg Railway Museum —
17 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — The Lobster Fishery — Le pêche du homard —
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18 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — The Siege Landing — Débarquement des assiégeants —
19 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Louisbourg — Wolfe’s Landing — Le débarquement de Wolfe —
20 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, New Victoria — New Victoria Veterans Who Died Overseas — 1939-1945 —
21 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, New Waterford — Anderton Shearer Loader —
22 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, New Waterford — Armoured Face Conveyor —
23 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, New Waterford — Earl Leadbeater — Memorial — Colliery Lands Park —
24 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, New Waterford — Joy — Hydraulically Powered Longwall Roof Support —
25 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, New Waterford — Miner's Monument —
26 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, New Waterford — New Waterford World War Monument — Our Heroic Dead —
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27 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, New Waterford — Standing The Gaff — William Davis — 1888-1925 —
28 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, New Waterford — William Davis — Memorial — Colliery Lands Park —
29 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — First Boy Scout Troop in North America —
30 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — Flint Island Light Station —
31 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — Gowrie and North Atlantic Collieries —
32 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — L'industrie du Charbon au Canada / Canada's Coal Industry —
33 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — Morien Bay —
34 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — Morien Businesses of the Past —
35 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — Morien Institutions —
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36 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — Morien's Legacy —
37 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — The First Coal Workings in North America —
38 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Port Morien — The Fishery in Port Morien —
39 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — "Northern Friends" —
40 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — Canadian Merchant Navy — World War II —
41 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — Cossit House — Province of Nova Scotia Historic Site —
42 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — J.F.W. DesBarres — 1722 - 1824 —
43 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres — 1722-1824 —
44 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — Royal Bank Lion —
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45 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — Sir John George Bourinot — 1837-1902 —
46 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — Sir Peter D. Macdonald —
47 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — St. George's Church —
48 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — Sydney Harbour in the Second World War —
49 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — Sydney's Heritage Conservation District —
50 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — The Big Fiddle —
51 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Sydney — The Development of Whitney Pier / L'essor De Whitney Pier —
52 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Victoria Mines — Atlantic Bulwark / Le Rempart de L'Atlantique —
53 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Belle Côte — Belle Côte War Memorial — Our Heroic Dead —
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54 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — 1790 - 1990 — La Société Saint-Pierre / Église Saint-Pierre —
55 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — Chéticamp War Memorial — Dieu et Patrie — For God and Country —
56 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — Dés l'année suivante, en 1927 / The following year, in 1927 —
57 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — Jeanne Dugas —
58 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — La Bouée du havre / The Harbour Bouy —
59 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — La fin d'un rêve / The End of a Dream —
60 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — M. Joseph Macfarland / Mr. Joseph MacFarland — 1923-1947 —
61 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — The Cabot Trail — St. Pierre’s Church and Father Fiset/L'église Saint-Pierre et le Pere Fiset —
62 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — The Gypsum Mine / La Mine De Plâtre —
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63 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — Tunnel et Quai de la mine / Tunnel and Mine Wharf —
64 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Chéticamp — Voie ferrée et « Lu vieille Louise » / The railroad and "The Old Louise" — 1910-1914 —
65 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Margaree Forks — Dr. Moses Coady and Father Jimmy Tompkins — Père Moses Coady, Ph.D., et Père Jimmy Tompkins —
66 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Margaree Forks — Margaree River — Rivière Margaree —
67 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Margaree Forks — The Margaree-Lake Ainslie River System — Le Réseau Fluvial Margaree-Lac Ainslie — The Canadian Heritage Rivers System / Le Réseau de rivières du patrimoine canadien —
68 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Petit Etang — Canada War Memorial —
69 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Pleasant Bay — The Lone Shieling —
70 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Port Hastings — Canso Causeway — "Air Lorg Nan Eilean," The Road to the Isles —
71 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Port Hastings — Construction of the Canso Canal / Construction du Canal de Canso —
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72 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Port Hastings — History of the Canso Canal / Historique du Canal de Canso —
73 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Port Hastings — Operation of the Canso Canal / Exploitation du Canal —
74 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Port Hastings — The Building of the Canso Causeway / La Construction de la Levée de Canso —
75 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, Saint Joseph du Moine — Founders of the Parish of St-Joseph du Moine — Fondateurs de la Paroisse de St-Joseph du Moine —
76 ► Nova Scotia, Inverness County, St. Joseph du Moine — St. Joseph du Moine War Memorial —
77 ► Nova Scotia, Richmond County, St. Peter's — Lest We Forget —
78 ► Nova Scotia, Richmond County, St. Peter's — One Place, Four Names — Quatre noms pour un même endroit —
79 ► Nova Scotia, Richmond County, St. Peter's — St, Peter’s and Its Canal — St. Peter’s et son canal —
80 ► Nova Scotia, Richmond County, St. Peter's — St. Peter’s Canal / Le Canal Saint-Pierre — St. Peters / Saint-Pierre —
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81 ► Nova Scotia, Richmond County, St. Peter's — The French Settlement of Saint-Pierre — L’établissement français de Saint-Pierre —
82 ► Nova Scotia, Richmond County, St. Peter's — Wallace R. MacAskill — A man of the sea, and more / Un homme de mer et encore plus —
83 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — Alexander Graham Bell —
84 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Park — Parc historique national Alexander Graham Bell —
85 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — Canada's Hundred Days and Armistice 1918 — Les cent jours du Canada et l'armistice de 1918 — The Road to Peace / Vers la paix —
86 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — First Aeroplane Flight — In the British Empire. —
87 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — First Flight by a British Subject in the British Empire — Le premier vol effectué dans l'Empire britannique par un sujet britannique — 1909-1959 —
88 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — History of Baddeck —
89 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — Home and School Movement —
90 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — The First Airplane Flight in Canada — Le premier vol d'avion au Canada —
91 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — William Kidston —
92 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Baddeck — Women, the War Effort and Winning the Right to Vote — Les femmes, l'effort de guerre et l'obtention du droit de vote —
93 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Englishtown — Bird Islands —
94 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Englishtown — Sainte-Anné —
95 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Ingonish — Ingonish War Memorial —
96 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Neil's Harbour — Neil's Harbour — The Cabot Trail —
97 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, Saint Ann's — Reverend Norman McLeod — 1780 - 1866 —
98 ► Nova Scotia, Victoria County, South Harbour — South Harbour War Memorial —
 
 
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