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Charlotte Lindgren RCA (1 February 1931 – 19 April 2023) [1] was a Canadian sculptor-weaver, installation artist, photographer and curator. Lindgren gained worldwide fame for innovative weaving due to the response to her distinctive installation Aedicule in the 1967 International Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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]
The Cape Breton Post is the only daily newspaper published on Cape Breton Island. Founded in Sydney, Nova Scotia , in 1901, [ 3 ] it specializes in local coverage of news, events, and sports from communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and the counties of Inverness , Richmond and Victoria .
(Cape Breton North and Victoria) April 7, 1953 73 Complications from a medical operation [23] Gordon Graydon Progressive Conservative Ontario : September 19, 1953 56 Joseph-Célestin Nadon Liberal Quebec : December 17, 1953 56 Charles Delmer Coyle Progressive Conservative Ontario : January 19, 1954 66 Agar Rodney Adamson
On November 18, 1938, [1] Silver was born in Glace Bay, Cape Breton, [2] Nova Scotia, Canada. [3] She was encouraged by her parents in the art of singing, having remembered her parents taking her to air force and army bases when she was aged three or four. [4]
Alistair MacLeod, OC FRSC (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and ...
The Mother Canada monument, officially the Never Forgotten National Memorial, was a war memorial planned to be built in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. A memorial to Canadian Armed Forces overseas casualties, especially those of World War I , it was intended as a transatlantic complement to the Canadian ...
1938 Sept., Oct. A Visit to Cape Breton. [Describes the visit of JLC and his wife to Cape Breton in search of traditional Gaelic songs. The first such visit from Scotland] 1944 Sept., Obituary of Roderick MacKinnon, traditional Barra singer. 1952 Oct., Obituary of Seonaidh Caimbeul, Uist Gaelic bard. 1953 Oct., Highland Links with Nova Scotia.