Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century

Lachlan MacKinnon is the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Post-industrial Communities and an associate professor of History at Cape Breton University. He is an active member of the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time research partnership, and has published extensively on topics related to deindustrialization, labour history, and historical memory. His recent book, Closing Sysco: Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada's Steel City, examined the structural decline of the steel industry in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Andrew Parnaby is an associate professor of History and dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Cape Breton University. He is the author of many articles and books, including Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from Fenians to Fortress America, with Reg Whitaker and Gregory S. Kealey, which received the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth CenturyPart 1: Formations1. Empire, Colonial Enterprise, and Speculation: Cape Breton's Coal Boom of the 1860sDon Nerbas2. "The Grand Old Game": The Complex History of Cricket in Cape Breton to 1863-1914John G. Reid3. Bridging Religion and Black Nationalism: The Founding of St. Philips African Orthodox Church and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Hall in Whitney Pier, 1900–1930Claudine Bonner4. An Invisible Minority: Acadians in Industrial Cape BretonRonald Labelle5. The Disposition of the Ladies: Mi'kmaw Women and the Removal of Kun'tewiktuk / I King's Road Reserve, Sydney, Nova ScotiaMartha WallsPart 2: Legacies6. C. B. Wade, Research Director and Labour Historian, 1944–50David Frank7. "Everybody Was Crying": Ella Barron, Dutch War Bride in Amsterdam and Ingonish, Cape Breton, 1923–2020Ken Donovan8. Twenty-First-Century Uses for Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Collections: From Language Preservation to Revitalization and the Articulation of Cultural ValuesHeather Sparling9. Industrial Crisis and the Cape Breton Coal Miners at the End of the Long Twentieth Century, 1981–86Lachlan MacKinnon10. The Great Spawn: Aquaculture and Development on the Bras d'Or LakeWill Langford11. From Artifact to Living Cultures: Cape Breton's Tourism History and the Emergence of the Celtic Colours International FestivalAnne-Louise Semple and Del MuiseAfterword: Cape Breton as Microcosm of Capitalist ModernityAlvin FinkelList of Contributors