Down North and Up Along 
In 1754 the English came around in one of 
their war-ships, a part of Commodore War- 
ren's fleet then blockading Louisburg, and 
destroyed all the French settlements on St. 
Anne's Bay. 
Toward the end of the eighteenth century 
there was a remarkable influx of Scotch High- 
landers to Cape Breton and at the beginning of 
the nineteenth century ship-load after ship-load 
was landed on that island. It is estimated that 
between 1802 and 1828 some 25,000 of these 
people poured into Cape Breton. They were 
turned out of their homes in Scotland to make 
way for sheep-raising, that having been found 
more profitable than the rents of the miserable 
tenantry. The refugees sought the new high- 
lands of a more friendly world, where landlords 
were not, and thus St. Anne and the whole of 
Cape North came to have its present indus- 
trious and temperate population. 
On the end of the narrow spit of land that 
closes the harbour to the storms and allows only 
one ship at a time to pass, a light-house now 
stands, and another shines over the sea from 
one of the Ciboux Islands. 
Englishtown, too, is the proud birthplace of 
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