Where is Cape Breton?
Cape Breton Island is located off the eastern end of the peninsula of mainland Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. The island is about 100 miles north-south and 70 miles wide east-west. The geography of the island is complicated dramatically by the Bras D’Or Lakes, a 1,100 km, an inland extension of the North Atlantic that fills much of the center of the island creating a wealth of small peninsulas and bays separated from either other by large bodies of water. The southern part of the island is relatively flat, This has no doubt added to the isolation of many communities until quite recently. Most of the population lives on the eastern seaboard, the site of many, recently closed under-sea coal mines and steel mills. Music is strong all over the island, but particularly in Inverness County along the western end of the island.
