Sable Island, Nova Scotia

Canada

Sable Island, Nova Scotia carries 94 connections with 2847 other places across 17 topics, weighted heavily toward nature, government, and history. Most of its ties overlap with Nova Scotia, Quebec, and New England, reflecting both its colonial past and ecological role. Its feral horse population likely descended from horses confiscated from Acadians during the Great Expulsion and later left on the island. The island was referenced in an appendix to the British North America Act at Confederation in 1867, and the Ipswich sparrow, a subspecies of the Savannah sparrow, breeds nowhere else.