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

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Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century

Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism

Edited by: Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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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.

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MacKinnon Lachlan :

Lachlan MacKinnon is the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Post-industrial Communities and an associate professor of History at Cape Breton University. He is an active member of the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time research partnership, and has published extensively on topics related to deindustrialization, labour history, and historical memory. His recent book, Closing Sysco: Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada’s Steel City, examined the structural decline of the steel industry in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.Parnaby Andrew :

Andrew Parnaby is an associate professor of History and dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Cape Breton University. He is the author of many articles and books, including Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from Fenians to Fortress America, with Reg Whitaker and Gregory S. Kealey, which received the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013.

Lachlan MacKinnon is the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Post-industrial Communities and an associate professor of History at Cape Breton University. He is an active member of the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time research partnership, and has published extensively on topics related to deindustrialization, labour history, and historical memory. His recent book, Closing Sysco: Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada’s Steel City, examined the structural decline of the steel industry in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Andrew Parnaby is an associate professor of History and dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Cape Breton University. He is the author of many articles and books, including Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from Fenians to Fortress America, with Reg Whitaker and Gregory S. Kealey, which received the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013.

Contributions by: Don Nerbas, John G. Reid, Claudine Bonner, Ronald Labelle, Martha Walls, David Frank, Ken Donovan, Heather Sparling, Will Langford, Anne-Louise Semple and Del Muise, and Alvin Finkel

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part 1 Formations
1 Empire, Colonial Enterprise, and Speculation Cape Breton’s Coal Boom of the 1860s Don Nerbas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
2 “The Grand Old Game” The Complex History of Cricket in Cape Breton, 1863 to 1914 John G. Reid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
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 Claudine Bonner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
4 An Invisible Minority: Acadians in Industrial Cape Breton Ronald Labelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
5 The Disposition of the Ladies Mi’kmaw Women and the Removal of Kun’tewiktuk / King’s Road Reserve, Sydney, Nova Scotia Martha Walls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Part 2 Legacies
6 C. B. Wade, Research Director and Labour Historian, 1944–50 David Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
7 “Everybody Was Crying” Ella Barron, Dutch War Bride in Amsterdam and Ingonish, Cape Breton, 1923–2023 Ken Donovan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
8 Twenty-First-Century Uses for Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Collections: From Language Preservation to Revitalization and the Articulation of Cultural Values Heather Sparling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
9 Industrial Crisis and the Cape Breton Coal Miners at the End of the Long Twentieth Century, 1981–86 Lachlan MacKinnon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
10 The Great Spawn: Aquaculture and Development on the Bras d’Or Lake Will Langford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
11 From Artifact to Living Cultures Cape Breton’s Tourism History and the Emergence of the Celtic Colours International Festival Anne-Louise Semple and Del Muise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
Afterword Cape Breton as Microcosm of Capitalist Modernity Alvin Finkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361

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372

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10

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