The story of Cape Breton presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Contributors capture the vital elements of a region on the rural resource frontier and place the island within broad transnational networks such as the Celtic music revival, the Black diaspora, and more.
Authors
- DOI
- 1
- Pages
- 372
- Published in
- Athabasca, CA
- Rights
- Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Half Title 2
- Series Page 3
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 12
- Part 1 Formations 30
- 1 Empire, Colonial Enterprise, and Speculation: Cape Breton’s Coal Boom of the 1860s 32
- 2 “The Grand Old Game”: The Complex History of Cricket in Cape Breton, 1863 to 1914 64
- 3 Bridging Religion and Black Nationalism: The Founding of St. Philips African Orthodox Church and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Hall in Whitney Pier, 1900–1930 84
- 4 An Invisible Minority: Acadians in Industrial Cape Breton 108
- 5 The Disposition of the Ladies: Mi’kmaw Women and the Removal of Kun’tewiktuk / King’s Road Reserve, Sydney, Nova Scotia 136
- Part 2 Legacies 168
- 6 C. B. Wade, Research Director and Labour Historian, 1944–50 170
- 7 “Everybody Was Crying”: Ella Barron, Dutch War Bride in Amsterdam and Ingonish, Cape Breton, 1923–2023 198
- 8 Twenty-First-Century Uses for Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Collections: From Language Preservation to Revitalization and the Articulation of Cultural Values 224
- 9 Industrial Crisis and the Cape Breton Coal Miners at the End of the Long Twentieth Century, 1981–86 256
- 10 The Great Spawn: Aquaculture and Development on the Bras d’Or Lake 278
- 11 From Artifact to Living Cultures: Cape Breton’s Tourism History and the Emergence of the Celtic Colours International Festival 310
- Afterword: Cape Breton as Microcosm of Capitalist Modernity 342
- Contributors 370
