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SYDNEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 280 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SYDNEY  , the

chief
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town of Cape Breton county, Nova Scotia, on a good harbour, the eastern
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terminus of the Intercolonial railway . Pop . (1891), 2427, (1901), 9900 . Formerly a quiet country town, it became between 1891 and 19o1 the chief
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shipping
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port of the Dominion
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Coal
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Company, and the site of the large
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works of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company . On the opposite side of the harbour are the flourishing towns of North Sydney and of Sydney Mines . It is the starting point for the
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line of steamers to the
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Bras d'Or lakes, and a favourite summer resort .

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