Cape Breton Island Sights

We’ve compiled the best of the best in Cape Breton Island - browse our top choices for the top things to see during your stay.

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Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site

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This site pays homage to Bell's many inventions and humanitarian work. Inside the main building, films, photos, artifacts, and models...

Cabots Landing Provincial Park

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This long, sandy beach remains untouched by modern development, other than the picnic tables on the adjoining grassland. It's a great...

Cape Breton Highlands National Park

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A 950-square-km (366-square-mile) wilderness of wooded valleys, barren plateaus, and steep cliffs, Cape Breton Highlands National Park...

Cape Breton Miners' Museum

  • Museum/Gallery

Here you can learn about the difficult lives of the local men whose job it was to extract coal from undersea collieries. After perusing...

Celtic Music Interpretive Centre

  • Museum/Gallery

Packed with exhibits detailing the fine points of fiddling, the center also has an archive with classic recordings and oral history interviews...

Cossit House

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Built in 1787, this unpretentious wooden building was originally home to Reverend Ranna Cossit—Cape Breton's first protestant minister—his...

Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site

  • Military Site

This may be Cape Breton's most remarkable attraction. After the French were forced out of mainland Nova Scotia in 1713, they established...

Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts

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Being home to direct descendants of the Gaelic pioneers, St. Ann's Bay is a logical site for this college, established in 1938 with a...

Gampo Abbey

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Nova Scotia is a center of Shambhala Buddhism, and though Shambala International is headquartered in Halifax, this abbey is its monastic...

Highland Village Museum

  • Museum Village

The 40-acre "village" is set high on a mountainside with a spectacular view of Bras d'Or Lake and narrow Barra Strait. Its 11 historical...

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