Editing Cape Breton County (section)

== Municipal government ==
Cape Breton County had several incorporated municipalities within its boundaries:

* City of Sydney (1904–1995)
* Town of Glace Bay (1901–1995)
* Town of New Waterford (1913–1995)
* Town of North Sydney (1885–1995)
* Town of Sydney Mines (1889–1995)
* Town of Louisbourg (1901–1995)
* Town of Dominion (1906–1995)
* Municipality of the County of Cape Breton (1879–1995)

In the early 1990s the provincial government began to examine duplication of municipal services in Nova Scotia.  One of the recommendations arising from this study was that all of Cape Breton County be amalgamated.  On August 1, 1995, all seven municipal units in the county were dissolved and replaced by a single tier municipality called the [[Cape Breton Regional Municipality]] (CBRM).

The new regional municipality's boundary included all of Cape Breton County except for the [[Eskasoni First Nation|Eskasoni]] and [[Membertou First Nation|Membertou]] [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]].

Cape Breton County continues to exist as a county in Nova Scotia, but all municipal government and service delivery is provided by either the Cape Breton Regional Municipality or the First Nations, with no additional county level government or administration or any lower-level town or city-level government or administration.