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Nova Scotia Tourism Region : Cape Breton Island
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- There is also a Gabarus Lake. For the origin of one of Nova Scotia's more interesting place names, take your pick. Historian William Ganong suggests the name may be 'a gallicized version of Cabot's Cross,' perhaps another landing site for Cabot.
- It may be a corruption by the English of the French Chapeau Rouge, which appears on a 1601 map, or Cap Rouge. That it may have been named after a French officer of Bayonne named François Gabarus is the most generally accepted origin.
- On a 1752 map the bay is shown as Gabarus. The Mi'kmaq called it Gabalosk. The peninsulas NW of the cape are called Desgoutins and The Governors. On some early maps Cape Gabarus is shown as Cape Portland. Settlement began here before 1768.
- Gull Cove: In the early 1800s this was a thriving fishing village. It was deserted in the mid-1900s.
- With permission from 'Nova Scotia Place Names' David E. Scott 2015
Address of this page: http://ns.ruralroutes.com/Gabarus