Cape Breton, a small island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, has seen more interest since a radio DJ touted it as a refuge from Donald Trump.

The island’s unemployment rate was 15.5 percent. The population was down to 130,000, and that left Cape Breton with hundreds of abandoned homes awaiting demolition and several hundred more for sale.

Cape Breton has long been one of Canada ’s best-kept secrets, an island about twice the size of Delaware, connected to the mainland of Nova Scotia by the 1.4-kilometer Canso Causeway.

The island’s unemployment rate was 15.5 percent. The population was down to 130,000, and that left Cape Breton with hundreds of abandoned homes awaiting demolition and several hundred more for sale.

The Canso Causeway connects mainland Nova Scotia to the island of Cape Breton. As we motor-homed across the span on a crisp autumn day, the ebb tide was pulling westward, hard through the Canso ...

Tourism operators in Cape Breton are looking for new songs to attract people to the island. Born and raised in Cape Breton, Jordan Musycsyn is a singer-songwriter. He says, from an artist's point ...

But, Macneill argues, Cape Breton Island’s “colonial constitution was never rescinded.” Macneill adds that in 1867, Charles Tupper – Nova Scotia premier from 1864 to 1867 and, later, the sixth Prime ...

While the beauty of Atlantic Canada isn't exactly a secret, there are few places where that beauty is as pronounced as along the raw and rugged coastline of Cape Breton Island.