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St. Ann's

Home of the Gaelic College — the only one of its kind in North America.

On the Cabot Trail

St. Ann's overlooks a long, narrow bay near where the Cabot Trail begins its eastern climb up Kelly's Mountain. It is the site of the Gaelic College (Colaisde na Gàidhlig), founded in 1938 to preserve Scottish-Gaelic language, music, and dance — the only institution of its kind in North America.

The college runs summer immersion programs, weekend fiddle camps, and the annual Ceilidh on the Cape concert series, and is a gathering point for the Gaelic-speaking diaspora that still threads through Cape Breton.

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