Location: Canada
Nearest Airport:
Sydney at 150
Miles
Nearest Ferry:
Yarmouth from Portland or Bar Harbor MN at 230
Miles
Nearest Motorway:
Cabot Trail, Route 19 at 1
Miles
Nearest Barpub:
Many in town of Cheticamp at 3
Miles
Nearest Golf:
Town of Cheticamp, Inverness at 3
Miles
Nearest Restaurant:
Town of Cheticamp at 3
Miles
Car: necessary
Cape Breton Island is the setting for Longfellow's compelling story, EVANGELINE, about the Deportation of the French Acadians in the Eighteenth century. The story continued for the people of Cheticamp when they bartered with their prison guards in the Channel Islands to be returned to their land for fifty years of indentured servitude. You live history here, not only of the Acadians and MicMac First Nation People, but also the French, Scotts and Irish, whose ships found the land and whose people stayed. Enjoy history, fishing, fine acadian food, dance, the best fiddling, golf, tennis, museums, and elegant Canadian Pacific Hotels, nature, hiking and scenery.