Cape Breton Tourist Attractions

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Cape Breton's Best Tourist Attractions

Gaelic Life and Culture

For a true Celtic cultural experience visit the Highland Village in Iona. Celebrate the Gaelic history of Cape Breton in a living history museum and cultural center that over looks the Bras d'Or Lakes.

The Gaelic culture in Cape Breton links directly to ancient Celtic culture. While this culture slowly disappeared in much of Western Europe a pocket of that culture developed and flourished from the Gael's of Scotland over 200 years ago. It's language is still spoken, in regions of Cape Breton, today. For more on the history, culture, music, and story telling traditions of Gaelic life, view these short virtual museum films.

The Fortress of Louisbourg

Visit the Fortress of Louisbourg and step back 250 years. A Canadian National Heritage site - the largest reconstructed 18th-century French fortified town in North America. The Fortress protected France's key economic and military center in the New World. It was one of the busiest harbours in North America during the 18th century.

Stroll the streets and see how people of a past age lived and worked. Walk the stone ramparts and gaze over the cannons that protected the shoreline. This extensively reconstructed fortress and town are a very popular tourist destination.

Explore the long and rich history of coal mining on Cape Breton Island. The Cape Breton Miner's Museum is located along the picturesque coast  on a 15-acre site filled with wild roses and grasses.

Tour the Ocean Deeps Colliery, a coal mine located beneath the Museum. View the geological development of Cape Breton's coal field. See displays of coal mining equipment and  various coal mining techniques.

The museum is staffed with real coal miners to guide you. Listen to their stories and learn how coal mining influenced their lives, their families and  communities, and built a nation.

Be sure to see a performance by The Men of the Deeps. The famous choir of miners who sing about mining life.

More Great Cape Breton Attractions

Alexander Graham Bell Museum Discover the fascinating life of a prolific inventor. Bell, the inventor of the telephone, held a vacation property in Baddeck and carried out much of his scientific and humanitarian works there.

Marconi tower where On December 15, 1902, Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first official wireless message across the Atlantic. Enjoy breath taking views of the Ocean at the remains of the historic tower that beamed the radio waves across the sea.

Cossit House was built  in 1787 and is believed to be the oldest in Sydney. View this historic property recreated with an 1815 Inventory of the Cossit family estate illustrating live in the late 1700's

Celtic Colours International Festival a unique Cape Breton Island-wide celebration of Celtic culture - one of the most impressive traditional music events in North America. A great reason to visit Cape Breton .

Rita's Tea Room Visit the former one-room school house turned Tea Room and Gift Shop of the world famous singer, Rita McNeal, in Big Pond, Cape Breton.

Golf Cape Breton Four  scenic golf courses - Highlands Links, Bell Bay, Le Portage, and Dundee - provide diverse and challenging courses.

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