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Cossit House in the North End of Sydney, Nova Scotia, is the city's oldest surviving residence and one of the oldest buildings on Cape Breton Island, Atlas Obscura reported. It was built in 1787 for Reverend Ranna Cossit, a Loyalist Anglican minister who served as garrison chaplain for the colony of Cape Breton Island. Local ghost stories say some of the house's earliest residents may never have left.