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Wind Whales and Whisky: A Cape Breton Voyage recounts Cameron's adventures as he, his wife Lulu and 12-year-old son Mark Patrick sail around Cape Breton Island on their 27-foot cutter Silversark during the summer of 1990. Cameron himself says the book is a family adventure, a portrait of Cape Breton and "an essay on values, what is it that ...
David Nelson Muise (September 22, 1949 – November 2, 2017) was a Canadian politician. He was mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia from 1997 to 2000.
He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1993 to 1997. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party. [1] He played a role in the professionalization of emergency medicine in the latter half of the 20th century, being named a "Hero of Emergency Medicine" in 2008. [2]
Leon Issiah Dubinsky was born on 5 July 1941, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, to the Jewish merchant family of Newman and Esther (née Goldman) Dubinsky. [1] They owned Sydney Ship Supply, a ship chandlery business in Sydney's Whitney Pier neighbourhood, that operated from the beginning of World War II until they sold it and retired. [2]
The dispute finally ended in August 2017 when the union voted to ratify a new eight-year deal. The agreement included an increase in the work week from 35 to 37.5 hours, the dismissal of 26 union staff (with 25 returning to the newspaper and one moving to Cape Breton), and wage cuts. [37]
Bruce Guthro ONS (August 31, 1961 – September 5, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.Guthro recorded as a solo artist, and was lead vocalist for the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig from 1998, [1] until the group retired in 2018. [2]
Goldbloom was born and raised as Ruth Miriam Schwartz, in New Waterford, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. [1] [2] Her grandparents and parents immigrated to Canada from the Pale of Settlement, Russian Empire, with their immigrant experience influencing her throughout her life. [3] She attended both Mount Allison University and McGill University. [3]
He was born on 30 December 1938 in Barra Head, Richmond County, Cape Breton Island. [1] His family moved to Eskasoni, Cape Breton when he was four.Cremo learned fiddling from his father, Simon Peter Cremo, and Wilfred Prosper, and noted Prosper and Buddy MacMaster as an influences. [2]