Breton Books
Acadian Lives
The Cape Breton Acadian comes alive in this new collection of conversations with remarkable people in an extraordinary place-Acadians of Cape Breton Island. In their own words, this book is a marvelous introduction to their humour, passion, work life and heritage. >From fishing life to the cooperative movement, from daily life to >sorcery and celeb …
Acadian Tales from Cape Breton
An esteemed Canadian folklorist, Father Anselme Chiasson's award-winning books include songs, tales and history of the Acadians of Cape Breton and the Magdalen Islands.
Archie Neil
Born in 1943 in Plattsburg, New York, Mary Anne Ducharme came to Cape Breton in 1979, with her husband Richard and their children, Richard and Kathryn. For the past twelve years she has edited Participaper, produced through the Inverness County Department of Recreation. Mary Anne has a Master's Degree in English, and has been a schoolteacher and a …
As True As I'm Sittin Here
The wit and good humour-ghost tales-comebacks and outrageous happenings-over 200 Cape Breton stories by 34 storytellers, collected by Archie Neil Chilsholm.
Blast
A monument to courage and achievement, BLAST! tells the stories of all eighteen major disasters in Cape Breton's coal mining history. Best-selling author of In the Pit,and That Bloody Cape Breton Coal, Rennie MacKenzie now brings his coal miner's eyes and heart to these painful, often staggering, stories of mishaps that resulted in three or more de …