Christmas Island, Nova Scotia
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Christmas Island, Nova Scotia is a community of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Canada. It has a post office, a firehall and a very small population. The post office of Christmas Island gets postcards from around the world during Christmas time so they can get the Christmas Island post stamp. It also has a beautiful beach with access to the Bras d'Or lakes. Christmas Island got its name because of a native that lived there whose surname was Christmas. He died on Ghost Island, adjacent to the beach.
[edit] Gaelic
The Christmas Island firehall holds the Feis An Eilein every , summer, a gaelic festival featuring gaelic music, dancing and culture. It is held in August and incldes uscethings as a milling frolic, square dance, bonfire, bag piping, stepdance, fiddle and piano lessons. As well there is instruction in Gaelic language, folklore and music.
Gaelic is still spoken by a few elderly residents, as many Highland Scots emigrated to Christmas Island during the Highland Clearances.
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