Internationally known fiddlers Ashley MacIsaac and Natalie MacMaster hail from Cape Breton and perform there every year.

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After months of research, in 1986 they visited Cape Breton, an island connected by a causeway to the Nova Scotia mainland.

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Cape Breton has endless miles of good woodcock and grouse cover.

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Cape Breton today is where Nova Scotia was a decade ago.

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They spend part of their summer and fall in Cape Breton, and will be there even more when Allen retires at the end of the year.

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But perhaps the most famous early settler was Alexander Graham Bell, who fell in love with Cape Breton because it reminded him of his home country of Scotland.

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Bart's, and Suzi, a bird-dog trainer, found their Walden: a cozy three-room cabin on the banks of Cape Breton's Margaree River, some of the finest Atlantic salmon water in North America.

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The Moores got in early on Cape Breton, the long-overlooked, easternmost part of the peninsular province of Nova Scotia, whose mainland has been a hot real estate ticket since the early 1990s.

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He spent most of his final 37 years on Cape Breton, working on projects as varied as the vacuum jacket (a forerunner of the iron lung), man-carrying tetrahedral kites and, most famously, the hydrofoil.

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The Cabot Trail, named for John Cabot, the Italian explorer who discovered the island in 1497, winds around the dramatic coast and offers access to Cape Breton Highlands National Park, a more remote version of Maine's Acadia.

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