Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
Part 1: Formations
1. Empire, Colonial Enterprise, and Speculation: Cape Breton’s Coal Boom of the 1860s
Don Nerbas
2. “The Grand Old Game”: The Complex History of Cricket in Cape Breton to 1863-1914
John G. Reid
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
4. An Invisible Minority: Acadians in Industrial Cape Breton
Ronald Labelle
5. The Disposition of the Ladies: Mi’kmaw Women and the Removal of Kun’tewiktuk / I King’s Road Reserve, Sydney, Nova Scotia
Martha Walls
Part 2: Legacies
6. C. B. Wade, Research Director and Labour Historian, 1944–50
David Frank
7. “Everybody Was Crying”: Ella Barron, Dutch War Bride in Amsterdam and Ingonish, Cape Breton, 1923–2020
Ken Donovan
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
9. Industrial Crisis and the Cape Breton Coal Miners at the End of the Long Twentieth Century, 1981–86
Lachlan MacKinnon
10. The Great Spawn: Aquaculture and Development on the Bras d’Or Lake
Will Langford
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
Afterword: Cape Breton as Microcosm of Capitalist Modernity
Alvin Finkel
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