Cape Breton University Press: 45 books
by Liz Doherty, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music – in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty’s exposure to, and research of, the island’s music traditions was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton fiddle: its history, its people, the tunes,...
The Failure of Global Capitalism
From Cape Breton to Colombia andBeyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing...
Italian Lives, Cape Breton Memories
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is most often associated with a version of Scottish culture that has evolved in its own unique ways. Though worthy of celebration, that perception tends to overwhelm the realities of everyday life experiences by people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. A strong and vibrant...
Old Trout Funnies
The Comic Origins of the Cape Breton Liberation Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Now iconic to Canadian, if not global culture, Cape Breton Island underwent a metamorphosis of sorts during the 1970s and 1980s. Long marginalized by geography, economics and predominant mainland political culture, a countercultural sea change brought the island’s deeply rooted creative side—music,...
Cape Breton Railways
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
CAPE BRETON’S RAIL LINES are perhaps best known for their substantial roles in the coal and steel industries. Shaped by factors such as physical geography, the availability of both capital and customers, and the distribution of population and industries, railways have played many important roles...
One with the Music
Cape Breton Step Dance Tradition and Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1986, now revised and with new chapters added, Brian Tennyson’s Impressions of Cape Breton gathers together descriptive impressions of Cape Breton Island, dating from 1634 to 1941, as selected by historian Brian Douglas Tennyson. Some of the impressions are overwhelmingly positive...
The Men of the Deeps
A Journey With North America'sOnly Coal Miners' Chorus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Men of the Deeps has been engaging with audiences around the world since 1966. Formed with a goal of representing Cape Breton and Nova Scotia at the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal (Expo ’67), the Men of the Deeps has lived on as North America’s only coal miners chorus. They have performed...
Distinction Earned
Cape Breton's Boxing Legends 1946-1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Distinction Earned highlights the accomplishments of significant Cape Breton fighters like George “Rockabye” Ross (about who MacDougall has also penned a play), Tyrone Gardiner, Blair Richardson and Francis “Rocky” MacDougall and trainers like Johnny Nemis. Between 1965 and 1967 five national...
Tinker and Blue
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Frank Macdonald’s reputation for colourful characters, subtle satire and social conscience is omnipresent in the hilarious adventures of Cape Breton pals Tinker and Blue in late-’60s San Francisco. At age 19 and 20, respectively, Tinker Dempsey and his oldest friend Blue figured it was time they...
Cibou: A Novel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Sensitive and enlightening, Cibou is set in 17th-century Mi’kma’ki, territory of the Mi’kmaq of Maritime Canada. The story is that of a young Mi’kmaw woman and her relationship with Jesuit missionary Antoine Daniel – a historical figure who was stationed in Cape Breton – and his brother,...
A Forest for Calum: A Novel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
A coming of age story about Roddie Gillies and his guardian and grandfather Calum, who is one of the last remaining Gaelic speakers in the once-proud mining town of Shean. A quiet and stoic man, Calum Gillies and his aging friends illuminate for us the changing world around them: the loss of the coal...
Seanchaidh na Coille / Memory-Keeper of the Forest
Anthology of Scottish-Gaelic Literature of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
From Vancouver to Cape Breton, Scottish Gaelic-speaking communities could be found all over Canada from the late-18th to the mid-20th century. This is the first anthology of prose and poetry – mostly literary, some historical in tone – to give voice to the experience of Gaelic Canadians. It covers...
These Were My People
Washabuck: An Anecdotal History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A unique and satisfying account of the colourful community of Washabuck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and its people by way of the stories they told and the stories told about them. Most of the people, places and events that Vince MacLean brings to life in these pages are not there anymore – the Washabuck...