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Sydney is the home of the University College of Cape Breton (UCCB), which is the only university on the island. With the disappearance of the steel industry and coal mining in Cape Breton, Sydney has been undergoing economic decline for several decades. The local government is attempting to shift the city's failing industrial economy to one based on a diversified mixture of initiatives including, but not limited to, tourism. Some of the other initiatives include Information Technology, light manufacturing and development of Sydney's harbour facilities. Future offshore petroleum and natural gas exploration in the Laurentian Basin, southeast of Sydney, has been touted as a potential economic catalyst for the industrial Cape Breton area.
People born in Sydney include:
Sydney was founded by Col. Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarresJoseph F. DesBarres ( November 22, 1721 October 27, 1824) was a Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman, who served as aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe in Quebec. DesBarres made many maps of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans and also mappe in 1785Events January 1st The first issue of the Daily Universal Register later known as The Times is published in London. January 7 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, and named in honour of Lord Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (also the Home Secretary in the British cabinet at the time). Lord Townshend appointed Col. DesBarres to be the governor of the new colony on Cape Breton Island. Col. DesBarres landed a group that consisted primarily of poor English citizens and disbanded soldiers. A group of LoyalistsThis article concerns Loyalists in the American Revolution. For other uses of the word "loyalist", see the disambiguation page. Loyalists (capitalized L were British North American colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the Amer from the state of New YorkNew York is a state in the northeastern United States whose U. postal abbreviation is NY . It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City. History See: History of New York New York was one of the thirteen col, fleeing the aftermath of the American RevolutionThe American Revolution refers to the series of events, ideas, and changes that resulted in the political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America. The American Revolutionary, were added to the immigrants upon their arrival in Nova Scotia.
The site DesBarres chose for the new settlement was known as Spanish Bay , an important harbour on Cape Breton Island.
This is about Sydney in Nova Scotia. See also SydneyThis is about the city of Sydney in Australia. For other meanings, see Sydney (disambiguation), or Sidney. Sydney Opera House Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australia's largest and oldest city, founded in 1788., AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring count.
Cities in Nova Scotia