Baddeck
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Baddeck is a village on Cape Breton Island in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated in the centre of Cape Breton, approximately 6 km east of where the Baddeck River empties into Bras d'Or L
The Kidston Island Lighthouse which also appears on the village seal.
Women workers at Bell's shipyard
Victoria County Court House
Telegraph House
Beinn Bhreagh
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Beinn Bhreagh is the name of the former estate of Alexander Graham Bell, in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It refers to a peninsula jutting into Cape Breton Island's scenic Bras d'Or Lake appro
Baddeck
…of Thing. In 1885 the Alexander Graham Bell family had a vacation in Baddeck. He then built a complex of buildings, including a new laboratory, named Beinn Bhreagh (Gaelic: beautiful mountain) after Bell's ancestral Scottish highlands. Initially a summer residence, Bell spent an increasing part of the year there…
The second and larger home, Beinn Bhreagh Hall (known locally as "The Point") was built in 1893 on the Beinn Bhreagh estate of Alexander Graham & Mabel Bell at Baddeck.
Beinn Bhreagh Hall taken by William Notman & Son in 1915.
Porch of Beinn Bhreagh Hall taken by William Notman & Son in 1915.
Beinn Bhreagh's little harbor offered the Bells opportunities for recreation, and later a shelter area for experiments in aviation and hydrofoils.