Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Island has been rated in the top 3 Islands in the World.
Travel & Leisure Magazine – World's Best!
Known as Nova Scotia's masterpiece and is being discovered by visitors from around the globe.
Discovered by visitors from around the world Cape Breton Island is well known as Nova Scotia's masterpiece.
While global media recognition of its beauty may be relatively recent, the island has always held tremendous charm for insiders. Alexander Graham Bell spent 37 summers in Cape Breton, and the majority of his retirement years, at his family estate outside Baddeck, also on the Bras d'Or Lake. He was quoted as saying "I have seen the Canadi- an and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps, and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all."
Brief History
Cape Breton Island was perhaps the first land sighted on the coast of North America by John Cabot, in 1497. At the time, the island was inhabited by people of the Mi'kmaq First Nation. No permanent European settlement was made until the French founded the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1713.