"Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. ... Although the island is physically separated from the Nova Scotia peninsula by the Strait of Canso, the 1,385 m (4,544 ft) long rock-fill Canso Causeway connects it to mainland Nova Scotia. The island is east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; its western coast also forms the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait. The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic Ocean; its eastern coast also forms the western limits of the Cabot Strait. Its landmass slopes upward from south to north, culminating in the highlands of its northern cape. ... Approximately 75% of the island's population is in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area, which was Nova Scotia's industrial heartland throughout the 20th century. ..." W - Cape Breton Island
"Alistair MacLeod, OC FRSC
(July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story
writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the
beauty of Cape Breton Island's
rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its
inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by
ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and the
present. MacLeod has been praised for his verbal precision, his lyric
intensity and his use of simple, direct language that seems rooted in an
oral tradition. ... In 2000, MacLeod's two books of short stories, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (1986), were re-published in the volume Island: The Collected Stories. MacLeod compared his fiction writing to playing an accordion. ..."
W - Alistair MacLeod
A LESSON IN THE ART OF STORYTELLING: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALISTAIR MacLEOD
amazon: Alistair MacLeod
NY Times: "Out With the Tide" (Audio)
NY Times - "No Great Mischief" (Audio)
Guardian: The isle is full of noises
Wikipedia
The Cape Breton Musical Heritage Series
The Amazing Music of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
YouTube: Angus Chisholm - Cape Breton Fiddle, Angus Chisholm - Rodeo, A.A Gillis Johnnie Cope - Cape Breton, Donald MacLellan - Strathspey & Reel Cape Breton, W.H (Bill) Lamey - Scottish Reels, Alick Gillis - Go To The De'il And Shake Yourself, Margaree's Fancy, Villeneuve & Bouchard - Set du Lac St-Jean, Willie Kennedy traditional Cape Breton Fiddle (Live), Fiddler Robbie Fraser at the Red Shoe in Mabou N.S. (Live), Cape Breton Fiddle | John MacDougall (Live)
Cape Breton Island - Protest Song (2012), Songs of Steel, Coal and Protest (2012)
"On Cape Breton Island, where coal mining and steel making were once an
essential part of the region’s culture and economy, protest song and
verse are found in abundance. ..."
Protest Songs, Protest Songs – Volume 1 (Audio), Songs of Steel, Coal and Protest – Volume 2 (Audio)
Industrial heritage remembered
YouTube: Albert Lionais - He Walked Right In
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