Local Arts & Culture

A number of artists maintain open studios at the Top of the Island. These artists welcome the public, and a studio visit offers a wonderful opportunity to meet the creators of unique functional and decorative pieces in media that includes wood, clay, fiber, watercolor and canvas.<

Arts North

Arts North

Gift-shop Studio

Artisans & Craft

Arts North, located near the northern tip of Cape Breton’s Cabot Trail, is an artisan’s consignment gallery retailing only high quality arts and crafts produced exclusively on Cape Breton Island.Designed, constructed and managed by professional artisans, Arts North has, since its founding in 1978, adhered to its “Cape Breton only” philosophy, maintaining only two overriding criteria for inclusion in its retail display.  Work exhibited and retailed through Arts North must:•    Be produced on Cape Breton…

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Cape North Farmers' Market

Cape North Farmers’ Market

Community-market Culinary-event Fine-crafts Local-food

Artisans & Craft Culinary

Our region – the northeast Highlands of Cape Breton Island – is a mountainous, rocky one, with harsh weather and many, if small, pockets of arable land. One of the primary goals of the Cape North Farmers Market is to bring about a resurgence in growing, selling and eating local food. The fresh produce, fish, maple syrup, honey, preserves and baked goods at the market may be limited in quantity but they are unsurpassed in…

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