ground floor. The hospital does not perform any major surgery. Although it does have an emergency room, this has scheduled closures, during which residents must go to the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney. The Harbourview Veterans Hospital located in nearby Sydney Mines is a continuing-care rehabilitation facility. It has a ward for physio and hearing and speech, but no outpatients or emergency wards. Schools There is one elementary school: Ferrisview Elementary. There was a complex of Saint Joseph's Elementary and Saint Mary's Elementary, but this complex was demolished in March 2008 to make way for a new multimillion-dollar school, Ferrisview Elementary. Seton Elementary was shut down in 2019 and given to the local food bank. Thompson Middle School was the only middle school in North Sydney before its demolition in 2018, after the school's closing, students started attending Sydney Mines Middle School. There is no high school in North Sydney and as a result, all students attend Memorial Composite High School, in the neighbouring town of Sydney Mines, which is the only high school for the entire Northside area. Cape Breton County Farmers North Sydney is home to the Cape Breton County Farmer's Exhibition. Held every August by the Cape Breton Federation of Agriculture, it is possibly the largest tourist attraction in the town. People from all over Industrial Cape Breton attend the event, and exhibitors come from all over the Atlantic Provinces. The main attraction is the agricultural and cultural displays. The Exhibition also includes a circus midway and horse riding presentations such as barrel racing, skills competitions, and draft horse competitions as well as two competitions that have made a comeback after many years of not being featured, the oxen pull revived in 2012 and the cattle (beef and dairy) being revived in 2011. Started in 1916, the exhibition was originally based in Sydney and a few years later relocated to its present location at the top of Regent Street. Notable people Paul Andrea, retired NHL hockey player Flash Hollett, retired NHL hockey player Flora MacDonald, former federal cabinet minister Arthur B. McDonald, Nobel laureate in the field of physics Cat Power (aka Haley Rogers), professional wrestler Harold Russell, Academy Award–winning actor Bobby Smith, retired NHL hockey player Clifford Shaw Thompson, 15th Canadian Surgeon General Notable connections Academy Award winning actors and siblings Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine were born to drama teacher Kathlyn Corinne who was