DOMINION

town, Cape Breton county, northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada, immediately northwest of Glace Bay and a few miles northeast of Sydney, on the northeast coast of Cape Breton Island. The town originally was named Dominion No. 1 and was developed in the 1890s around a colliery (now defunct) of the Dominion Coal Company. The name of the coal town was changed to Dominion in 1906. The first of the coal mines in the area was closed in 1926; in 1955 a second mine was closed. A Miners' Memorial Museum is located in nearby Glace Bay. Inc. 1906. Pop. (1991) 2,517.