Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century

Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
Author: Lachlan MacKinnon
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2024-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1771994053

The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the “long twentieth century” offers a particularly captivating window on the lasting and varied effects of deindustrialization. Now, at the tail end of the industrial moment in North American history, the story of Cape Breton Island presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Covering the period between 1860 and the early 2000s, this volume looks at trade unionism, state and cultural responses to deindustrialization, including the more recent pivot towards the tourist industry, and the lived experiences of Indigenous and Black people. Rather than focusing on the separate or distinct nature of Cape Breton, contributors place the island within broad transnational networks such as the financial world of the Anglo-Atlantic, the Celtic music revival, the Black diaspora, Canadian development programs, and more. In capturing the vital elements of a region on the rural resource frontier that was battered by deindustrialization, the histories included here show how the interplay of the state, cultures, and transnational connections shaped how people navigated these heavy pressures, both individually and collectively.

In the Province of History

In the Province of History
Author: Ian McKay
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0773537031

How a region sells - and misrepresents - its past

Dictionary of Cape Breton English

Dictionary of Cape Breton English
Author: William John Davey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442669500

Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island, where a puck is a forceful blow and a Cape Breton pork pie is filled with dates, not pork. The first regional dictionary devoted to the island’s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of the island’s rich vocabulary. Dictionary entries include supporting quotations culled from the editors’ extensive interviews with Cape Bretoners and considerable study of regional variation, as well as definitions, selected pronunciations, parts of speech, variant forms, related words, sources, and notes, giving the reader in-depth information on every aspect of Cape Breton culture. A substantial and long-awaited work of linguistic research that captures Cape Breton’s social, economic, and cultural life through the island’s language, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English can be read with interest by Backlanders, Bay byes, and those from away alike.

The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928

The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928
Author: William C. Wicken
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442611553

In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members to explain how they understood a treaty their people had signed with the British in 1752. Using this testimony as a starting point, William Wicken traces Mi'kmaw memories of the treaty, arguing that as colonization altered Mi'kmaw society, community interpretations of the treaty changed as well. The Sylliboy case was part of a broader debate within Canada about Aboriginal peoples' legal status within Confederation. In using the 1752 treaty to try and establish a legal identity separate from that of other Nova Scotians, Mi'kmaw leaders contested federal and provincial attempts to force their assimilation into Anglo-Canadian society. Integrating matters of governance and legality with an exploration of historical memory, The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History offers a nuanced understanding of how and why individuals and communities recall the past.

My Famous Evening

My Famous Evening
Author: Howard A. Norman
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

The two-time National Book Award finalist shares a unique look at Nova Scotia, the place that shaped his fiction--a raw landscape brimming with eccentric characters and bizarre situations.

An Environmental History of Canada

An Environmental History of Canada
Author: Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774821035

Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness – with abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada’s contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images – deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and thematic approach, Laurel MacDowell examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from first peoples to the Kyoto Protocol. This richly illustrated exploration of the past from an environmental perspective will change the way Canadians and others around the world think about – and look at – Canada.

The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925

The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925
Author: Craig Heron
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780802080820

A clear, concise portrait of one of the most dramatic moments in the history of working-class life and class relations generally in Canada - the upsurge of working-class protest at the end of the First World War.