Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century : Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism

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