THE CHARM OF CAPE BRETON ISLAND 



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Cape St Lawrenoe^gay^gg^h 



STATUTE MILES 



Drawn bjr A. H. Bumstead 



A MAP OF CAPS BRETON ISLAND 



Of all the ports on the Atlantic seaboard, Cape Breton's are the nearest to the shipping 

 centers of Europe and Africa. Owing to the island's easterly projection, its ports are also 

 nearer those of South America than others on the North Atlantic coast (note small inset map). 



of a great commercial future as in the 

 heritage of an historic past. 



cape breton's history is war history 



Two centuries ago her commanding 

 position with reference to the trade of 

 the St. Lawrence and the West Indies 

 made Cape Breton an issue in world poli- 

 tics, an issue sometimes disturbing the 



peace of Europe and upsetting the treaties 

 of the Powers — "the few acres of snow'' 

 for which, according to Voltaire, France 

 and England made piratical war. 



The fortunes of the little island, now 

 under the red cross of St. George, now 

 under the golden lilies of France, are a 

 part of the continent's history — the 

 greater part of it a war history. 



