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• Echoes From Labor's War: Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (introduction and poems), by Dawn Fraser (HTML with commentary at socialisthistory.ca)

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• Lettres et mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle, civile et politique du Cap Breton, depuis son établissement jusq'à la reprise de cette isle par les Anglois en 1758. (P. Gosse; [etc., etc.], 1760), by Thomas Pichon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers relative to the re-annexation of the Island of Cape Breton to the Government of Nova Scotia ([London, 1823), by Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston merchant of 1745 (Redding and Company, 1847), by James Gibson and Lorenzo D. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a passage from the island of Cape Breton across the Atlantic Ocean with other interesting occurrences, in a letter to a friend (Printed by Charles Squire ... for James Forsyth ... :, 1812), by John Luce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cape Breton, Canada, at the beginning of the twentieth century a treatise of natural resources and development (National Pub. Co., 1903), by C. W. Vernon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cape Breton, Canada (Nation publishing co., 1903), by Charles William Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Importance of Cape Breton (Printed for John and Paul Knapton at the Crown in Ludgate Street, 1746), by William Bollan and William Pepperrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Importance of Cape Breton consider'd in a letter to a member of Parliament (Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, and sold by M. Cooper, in Pater-noster-Row, 1746), by active 1746 Massachusettensis, Mary Cooper, Robert Dodsley, and Robert Auckmuty (page images at HathiTrust)

• Away to cape Breton (Dodd, Mead & company, 1936), by Gordon Brinley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down north and up along (Dodd, Mead and company, 1900), by Margaret Warner Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The island of Cape Breton, the "long-wharf" of the Dominion (s.n., 1882), by John George Bourinot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a ramble through Cape Breton (s.n., 1868), by John George Bourinot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The island of Cape Breton its history, scenery and resources ([s.n.], 1870), by John George Bourinot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide book to Cape Breton royal province of Nova Scotia or New Scotland, Dominion of Canada : with an original map, and a plan of Louisburg. (G.E. Morton, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great importance of Cape Breton, demonstrated and exemplified, by extracts from the best writers, French and English, who have treated of that colony the whole containing, besides the most accurate descriptions of the place, a series of the arguments that induced the French Court to settle and fortify it: the plan laid down for making the establishment, and the great progress made in execution of that plan : with the reasons that induced the people of New-England to subdue this formidable and dangerous rival, and that should determine the British nation never to part with it again, on any consideration whatever : in this pamphlet is included all that Father Charlevoix says of this island in his celebrated History of New-France, lately published, in three volumes in quart. (Printed for John Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ... and sold by C. Corbett ..., M. Cooper ..., and by the booksellers and pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, 1746), by Jacques Savary des Bruslons and Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cape Breton a field for enterprise; a lecture recently delivered (Casket, 1898), by John L. MacDougall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography and history of Nova Scotia with a general outline of geography and a sketch of the British possession in North America (A. & W. MacKinlay, 1859), by John B. Calkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• De importantie en voordeeligheid van Kaap-Breton aangetoont in eene nauwkeurige beschryving van dat beruchte eiland, het welk volgens het verhaal van zekeren vermaarden Franschen schryver meer wardig is dan de goudmynen van Peru : door aanmerkingen en twee naauwkeurige kaarten opgeheldert (By Reinier Boitet, 1746), by William Bollan and Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (page images at HathiTrust)
• The importance and advantage of Cape Breton truly stated and impartially considered. (Printed for John and Paul Knapton ..., 1746), by William Bollan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of the island of Cape Breton, in North America including a brief and accurate account of its constitution, laws & government : also the encouragement held out by government to emigrants : to which is added, the forms necessary to be complied with by applicants for Crown grants ; also the expence of improving the wilderness lands, with the advantages thereof ; and other important information (Published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones ..., Gosling and Redshaw ..., Bain ..., W. Taylor ..., and by T. Taylor ... :, 1818), by who has resided many years in the British colonies Gentleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography and history of Nova Scotia with a general outline of geography, and a sketch of the British possessions in North America (A. W. Mackinlay, 1864), by John B. Calkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres et memoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle, civile et politique du Cap Breton depuis son établissement jusqu'à la reprise de cette isle par les Anglois en 1758. (Chez Pierre Gosse, et se trouve a Londres, chez Jean Nourse, 1760), by Thomas Pichon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cape Breton Island, the Switzerland of America scenery unsurpassed anywhere in the world; Sydney, Cape Breton is fast becoming the most popular summer watering place for tourists from the United States and Canada. (s.n., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genuine letters and memoirs relating to the natural, civil, and commercial history of the islands of Cape Breton and Saint John from the first settlement there, to the taking of Louisbourg by the English in 1758, in which among many interesting particulars, the causes and previous events of the present war are explained (Printed for J. Nourse ..., 1760), by Thomas Pichon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Wichtigkeit und Vortheil des Kap=Breton in einer richtigen Beschreibung dieser berufenen Insel, welche nach der Erzählung eines gewissen berühmten französischen Scribentens mehr werth ist, als die Goldbergwerke in Peru, vorgestellt, und durch Anmerkungen und zwo richtige Landcharten erläutert (Bey Peter Schenken ..., 1747), by William Bollan (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Accurate description of Cape Breton with respect to its situation, soil, climate, ports, harbours, forces, and productions, both natural and artificial : the political reasons that induced the French ministry to settle and fortify it ... with a circumstantial account of the taking and surrendering of the city and garrison by the New-England forces, &c., commanded by General Pepperell in 1745 ... most humbly inscribed to the Hon. Edward Boscawen, Esq. (Printed for M. Cooper ... Mr. James ... H. Slater ... G. Woodfall ... and J. Lacy ..., 1758) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Importance of Cape Breton consider'd in a letter to a member of Parliament (Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, and sold by M. Cooper, in Pater-noster-Row, 1746), by active 1746 Massachusettensis, Mary Cooper, Robert Dodsley, and Robert Auckmuty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encouragements. For such as shall have intention to bee vnder-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway in America, by mee Lochinvar· (Edinburgh : Printed by Iohn Wreittoun, Anno Dom. 1625), by Robert Gordon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• British American union considered in relation to the interests of Cape Breton (s.n.], 1868), by John George Bourinot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cape Breton Tales, by Harry James Smith, contrib. by Edith Smith, illust. by Oliver M. Wiard (Gutenberg ebook)

• Guide book to Cape Breton royal province of Nova Scotia or New Scotland, Dominion of Canada : with an original map, and a plan of Louisburg. (G.E. Morton, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical and descriptive account of the island of Cape Breton, and of its memorials of the French régime: (W.F. Brown & co., 1892), by John George Bourinot (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the island of Cape Breton with some account of the discovery and settlement of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland (S. Low, son, and Marston, 1869), by Richard Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cape Breton illustrated : historic, picturesque and descriptive (W. Briggs, 1893), by John M. Gow and James A. Stubbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and descriptive account of the Island of Cape Breton and of its memorials of the French regime : with bibliographical, historical and critical notes (W. Foster Brown, 1892), by John George Bourinot (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the island of Cape Breton with some account of the discovery and settlement of Canada, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland (Sampson, Low, Son and Marston, 1869), by Richard Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cape Breton illustrated historic, picturesque and descriptive (W. Briggs, 1893), by John M. Gow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The island of Cape Breton its history, scenery and resources ([s.n.], 1870), by John George Bourinot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide book to Cape Breton royal province of Nova Scotia or New Scotland, Dominion of Canada : with an original map, and a plan of Louisburg. (G.E. Morton, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great importance of Cape Breton, demonstrated and exemplified, by extracts from the best writers, French and English, who have treated of that colony the whole containing, besides the most accurate descriptions of the place, a series of the arguments that induced the French Court to settle and fortify it: the plan laid down for making the establishment, and the great progress made in execution of that plan : with the reasons that induced the people of New-England to subdue this formidable and dangerous rival, and that should determine the British nation never to part with it again, on any consideration whatever : in this pamphlet is included all that Father Charlevoix says of this island in his celebrated History of New-France, lately published, in three volumes in quart. (Printed for John Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ... and sold by C. Corbett ..., M. Cooper ..., and by the booksellers and pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, 1746), by Jacques Savary des Bruslons and Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cape Breton (s.n., 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encouragements for such as shall have intention to bee under-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway, in America (s.n., 1867), by Lochinvar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The importance and advantage of Cape Breton truly stated and impartially considered. (Printed for John and Paul Knapton ..., 1746), by William Bollan (page images at HathiTrust)
• National prejudice, opposed to the national interest candidly considered in the detention or yielding up Gilbraltar and Cape-Briton by the ensuing treaty of peace : with some observations on the natural jealousy of the Spanish nation, and how far it may operate to the prejudice of the British commerce if not removed at this crisis : in a letter to Sir John Barnard, Knight. (Printed for W. Owen ... and J. Swan ..., 1748) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and descriptive account of the Island of Cape Breton and of its memorials of the French regime : with bibliographical, historical and critical notes (Copp, Clark, 1895), by John George Bourinot and Royal Society of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Boston merchant of 1745, or, Incidents in the life of James Gibson, a gentleman volunteer at the expedition to Louisburg with a journal of that siege, never before published in this country (Redding, 1847), by James Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encouragements for such as shall have intention to bee under-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway, in America (s.n.,], 1877), by Lochinvar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Wichtigkeit und Vortheil des Kap=Breton in einer richtigen Beschreibung dieser berufenen Insel, welche nach der Erzählung eines gewissen berühmten französischen Scribentens mehr werth ist, als die Goldbergwerke in Peru, vorgestellt, und durch Anmerkungen und zwo richtige Landcharten erläutert (Bey Peter Schenken ..., 1747), by William Bollan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great election (T.C. Allen, in the 1890s), by Jas. D. Gillis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encouragements for such as shall have intention to bee under-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway, in America (Printed by John Wreittoun, 1625), by Lochinvar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of Cape Breton, 1745. (Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1895), by Charles Samuel Ward and Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut (page images at HathiTrust)
• A caveat against emigration to America : with the state of the Island of Cape Breton, from the year 1784 to the present year : and suggestions for the benefit of the British settlements in North America. (Printed by Betham and Warde ..., for E. Lloyd ..., 1803), by William Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Inverness County, Nova Scotia ([n.p., 1922), by J. L. MacDougall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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