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Glace Bay

Coal-mining town on the Atlantic — Cape Breton Miners' Museum and the Marconi National Historic Site.

On the Marconi Trail

Glace Bay is the historical heart of Cape Breton's coal industry, and the Cape Breton Miners' Museum here remains one of the best industrial-history museums in Atlantic Canada — a guided tour of the underground "Ocean Deeps" colliery is the highlight.

The town is also home to the Marconi National Historic Site, where Guglielmo Marconi sent the first official wireless message between North America and Europe in 1902. Savoy Theatre on Commercial Street still hosts year-round live music.

Other towns along the same trails

Louisbourg

Fortress of Louisbourg — the largest reconstructed 18th-century fortified town in North America.

North Sydney

Marine Atlantic ferry terminal to Newfoundland — many visitors' first or last sight of Cape Breton.

Sydney

The island's largest city — port, university town, and home of the world's largest fiddle.

Sydney Mines

Coal-mining heritage town across the harbour from North Sydney, on the Marconi Trail.

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