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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]
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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.
The Green Party sent a direct mail fundraising appeal in Mowat's name in June 2007, and that same year Mowat became a patron of the Nova Scotia Nature Trust by donating over 200 acres (0.81 km 2) of his land in Cape Breton Island to the Nature Trust. He was also an honorary director of the North American Native Plant Society. [44]
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 ...
Jerry Holland (February 23, 1955 – July 16, 2009) was a musician and fiddler [2] who lived on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.. He was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, United States to Canadian parents – his father was from New Brunswick and his mother was from Quebec.
While working as a management adviser at the United Nations in New York (1992–1995), he was offered a post as Associate Chair in the Management of Technological Change at the University College of Cape Breton. While on Cape Breton Island, he founded the Centre for Community and Enterprise Networking (C/CEN) as a community-based research ...
Davis Day is a commemoration of the death of a Cape Breton miner, and father of 10, William Davis. He was shot dead by the coal company security force at Waterford Lake during a mining strike on June 11, 1925.