High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sydney is a Canadian community in Nova Scotia. Situated on Cape Breton Island's east coast, it belongs administratively to the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British Crown, and was incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolved on August 1, 1995, when it was amalgamated into the regional municipality. It served as the Cape Breton Island colony's capital, until 1820, when the colony merged with Nova Scotia and the capital moved to Halifax. Its rapid population expansion occurred just after the turn of the 20th century, where it was home to one of North America's main steel mills. During both World Wars One and Two, it was a major staging area for England-bound convoys. The post-war period witnessed a major decline in the amount of people employed at the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (DOSCO) steel mill, and the Nova Scotia and Canadian governments had to nationalize it in 1967 to save the region's...

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