[Smevo]

This is a website I stumbled upon a while back run by an elderly man from Sydney. Most of the pictures are submitted to him by visitors. Lots of lost history in the pictures, including the old tramway lines through the towns. Anyway, here's a taste, there's a tonne more on his website, unfortunately you have to sift past a lot of genealogy stuff too.

Cape Breton History (http://lemac2.tripod.com/)

Sydney
http://members.tripod.com/~lemac2/Castle4.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/~lemac2/RoyalBank.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/~lemac2/1905CharlotteSt.jpg


Glace Bay
http://members.tripod.com/~lemac2/Senators1908.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/~lemac2/GB7.JPG

Lost Hotels including the Broughton Arms (from the ghost town of Broughton) which was the site of the first revolving doors in North America.
http://members.tripod.com/lemac2/hotels.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/lemac2/hotels2.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/lemac2/hotels6.jpg

[mmmatt]

wow, thats amazing! Im loving the castle...do you know if its still standing? I would imagine it is.

[Smevo]

Unfortunately no. The castle was lost to a mysterious fire, there's a Days Inn and the Cabot House tower on the site now. Most of the buildings you'll see on his site are no longer standing, only some of the streetscapes are still similar.

[mmmatt]

Unfortunately no. The castle was lost to a mysterious fire, there's a Days Inn and the Cabot House tower on the site now. Most of the buildings you'll see on his site are no longer standing, only some of the streetscapes are still similar.

aww that sucks I love castles...I kinda dont see how a castle burns down haha seems strange...oh well

[Smevo]

It burned from the inside. The suspicious circumstances were that Holiday Inn wanted the property, and there was a lot of opposition to them because, for obvious reasons, people wanted the castle saved. While I highly doubt the company was behind it, it could have been an arsonist wanting to see Holiday Inn get the property. The old guardhouse and part of the property wall are still standing in front of Cabot House.