History Of Cape Breton

Historical links

The Historic sites of Cape Breton Island
The Fortress Of Louisbourg
The Beaton Institute (geneology and other history)
Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the Telephone)
Marconi museum
Cape Breton Links

Cape Bretons Time Line

• 570 000 000bc --- The birth of Cape Breton
• 8000bc --- estimated arrival of the native people
• 1000ad --- first arrivals of viking people
• 1497 --- arrival of John Cabot/claiming of Cape Breton by England
• 1500 --- Breton Fishermen arrive from France
• 1501 --- Exploration by Gaspar Cortereal (Portuguese)
• 1520 --- Exploration by Portuguese explorer Joao Fagundes
• 1521 --- First permanent settlement (portuguese)
• 1536 --- partly mapped by Jaques Cartier
• 1578 --- Anthony Packhurst explores Cape Breton/first fight for possesion
• 1597 --- Captain Liegh lands at Sydney and explores Cape Breton
• 1604 --- settlement of niganis (ingonish)
• 1629 --- settlement of Baliene by Lord Ochiltree (English)
• 1630 --- Siege of Lord Ociltrees fort by the French (Captain Daniel)
• 1631 --- Building of the French fort and settlement at St. Annes
• 1636 --- establishment of the fur trade by Nicholas Denys
• 1713 --- Treaty of Utrect officially gives Cape Breton to France
• 1720 --- Fortress of Louisbourg is founded
• 1721 --- first coal mine in North America built near Louisbourg
• 1749 --- The first siege and capture of Louisbourg by the English
• 1752 --- Louisbourg returned to the French
• 1758 --- Louisbourg and St. Annes recaptured by the English
• 1785 --- Sydney founded by Fredrick DesBarres (English)
• 1820 --- Cape Breton becomes part of Nova Scotia
• 1885 --- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, came to Cape Breton
• 1902 --- First wireless telegraph ever sent from Glace Bay (Marconi)
• 1909 --- First flight in the British Empire (Alexander Graham Bell)

The past comes alive in Cape Breton