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Another fascinating attraction further north at Glace Bay is the Marconi Museum, created in honour of another legendary inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, the first person to send a wireless Morse code signal.
Marconi’s feat, accomplished in 1895, was the first step in the development of modern radio. The museum contains exhibits, photos and artifacts, which give honour to Marconi’s incredible invention.
Glace Bay also features the Miner’s Museum, dedicated to hard-working Cape Bretoners who made their living in the Island’s dark and dusty underground coal mines.
Just west of Glace Bay lies Sydney Harbour, which leads to the City of Sydney, the industrial base of Cape Breton.
There several places to dock in this area, including the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Squadron and Dobson Yacht Club in Sydney and the Northern Yacht Club in North Sydney.
The scenic coastline of Cape Breton is a pictured here as a sailboat lies quietly in the harbour at Dingwall..
Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture & Heritage photo
Sydney, with a population of more than 26,000 people, was founded by Loyalists in 1785 and is known as Steel City, for its long tradition of steel production. The city features a number of attractions and historical buildings.
The Cape Breton Centre of Heritage and Science has both permanent and visiting exhibits, while Jost House retraces more than two centuries of Cape Breton house building and has a model ships display.
From Sydney Harbour, boaters can travel either west around to The Big Bras d’Or and back into the Bras d’Or Lakes, or head north to explore the eastern side of the Cabot Trail, which includes St Anne’s Bay, The Bird Islands, Wreck Cove, Cape Smokey, Ingonish, Neil’s Harbour, Aspy Bay and Dingwall.
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