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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty miles from Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island and twice as far from Newfoundland, the islands have passed from the French to Newfoundland to Quebeo. They were one of the last outposts of feudalism in the western world: George III gave them to Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin for services to the Crown, and for a century they paid tribute to Coffin's heirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Out of the Mists | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...arena for this performance, an aged novel has been unearthed from the shelves of some bankrupt circulating library, its cover has been dusted, and its plot has been transmitted to celluloid. The utterly fantastic doings somehow involve the wife of a Breton fisherman (Garson), who takes up with a nasty friend of her supposedly dead husband. But of course, just as she is about to marry the friend, (after four reels of indecision), the husband shows up and the two men have the customary brawl on the customary cliff-top. You have but one guess who it is that falls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/7/1947 | See Source »

...party of fishermen had camped in the Red River country near Cape Breton Highlands National Park. When they moved out, they committed the worst crime in the woodsman's book: they failed to put out their fire. From its embers sprang a blaze that soon fired the summer-dry brush nearby. Volunteers came running and quickly had the burning brush under control-or so they thought until a rising wind undid their work. Soon a white mushroom of smoke hung over Cape Breton's heartland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: The Big Burn | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Last week Cape Breton's Scots gathered to celebrate their heritage. In a small clearing along the National Park's Cabot Trail, a reproduction of a shieling-a rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Highland Mod | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...tribal tartan, the MacLeod of MacLeods watched the clansmen in sword dances, Highland flings. With another kilted chieftain, Premier Angus L. Macdonald, she listened to speeches in Gaelic and stamped time to shrill renditions (including Mrs. MacLeod's March, written especially for the occasion) by the Cape Breton Highlander's Pipe Band. Said she: "It is wonderful to be in a place as Scottish as Cape Breton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Highland Mod | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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