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CMH 86-46 · Collection · 1986

Collection consists of seventeen, ¾” tape (U-matic) videocassette reproductions and textual records created for the Inverness County Dance Project by Barbara LeBlanc and Laura Sadowsky for the Canadian Museum of Civilization, now the Canadian Museum of History, Musée canadien de l’histoire.

While working on their M.A. (History) at Laval University (QC), LeBlanc and Sadowsky completed the Inverness County Dance Project. For years they pursued independent research in the Acadian areas of Inverness County and Waltham, Mass. During June to August 1986, in collaboration with the Beaton Institute and the Canadian Museum of History (formerly the Museum of Man), LeBlanc and Sadowsky researched dance traditions of Acadian, Irish, Mi'kmaq, and Scottish groups in Inverness County. These collected sound recordings, textual transcripts, and moving images were recorded across Cape Breton Island.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-40 · Item · 05 Aug. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Lee Cremo - 2nd part (continuation from tape LEB/SAY-Ac-39) - talk about wedding dance, speaks about developing music in children, chanting or singing during wedding dance, special wedding song, birthdays, praying, singing for dancing, he sings the song for the dance, celebration dance, Nescaouette dance, learning to dance, dances in home, respect for elders, his wife explains about dancing and dance at Chapel Island, dance died out on Chapel Island, Mi'kmaq life, learning dancing, understanding Mi'kmaw dance movement, step for dances, respect in dancing.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-20 · Item · 17 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Buddy MacMaster about his life, teaching the fiddle, occasion for playing, type of dancing, relationship between dancers and fiddler, loss of caller, loss of four couples to a set, figures and the music, the difference between a hornpipe and a reel, which tunes he chooses, parts of tunes Irish influence, square dancing, step-dancing, qualities of a good dancer, qualities of a good fiddler, music running in families, his family, ownership of Music Repertoire, Scotch Four, Gaelic song-dances.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-18 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Ronnie Haché about his life, started to step-dance, occasion to dance in Grand-Etang, step-dancing teaching experience, qualities of a good dancer, fiddlers he liked the best, why he likes dancing, occasion to dance, square-dancing, step-dance repertoire, clothes, shoes, lessons in Waltham and the Beg Step, number of figures in Cheticamp, lessons in Cape Breton area, teaches in Pleasant Bay. Interview with Denise Olson at Margaree Harbour about pipe playing and Highland dancing, learning Highland Dancing, learned the pipes, opportunities for dancing, house party, jig tunes, halls, box socials, the sets, fiddling for dancing, people who dance, younger people dancing, how to keep this type of dancing alive among the younger people, dance prohibition.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-26 · Item · 15 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Minnie and Natalie MacMaster about their life, step-dancing, number of steps, frequency of dances, number of figures, concerts, picnics, stages at weddings, Scotch Four, Nathalie and the fiddle, playing for dances, winter playing, names of tunes, sheets of dance repertoire which Mary Janet MacDonald compiled, young people's interest in this music and dance, Glencoe Mills. July 15, 1986. Interview with Arsène LeBlanc calls figure he remembers, August 10, 1986, the music is a tape of Buddy MacMaster and Dougie MacPhee from Glencoe Mills, three figures (reels), where he learned them.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-31 · Item · 29 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Father Eugene Morris - continuation from tape LEB/SAY-Ac-30 - about dance competitions, French and Scottish style of dance, fiddlers, Irish, Scottish and French style of playing, influences on dancing, Cape North Figures, church picnic, wedding. Interview with Margaret Gillis about her life, first danced in public, her father as dancer, house party, public dances, figures, description of Scotch Four, school-house dances, Gaelic songs and dances, the flowers of Edinburg, Shwin Truss, relatives who dance, lessons where they immigrated, interest for dance today, qualities of a good step-dancer, qualities of a good fiddler, teaching dance, dancing running in families, accordion, piano, pictures of dance events. July 29, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-35 · Item · 08 Aug. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Blaise and Fern MacInnis about their life, Glencoe Mills square set, number of couples in a set at Glencoe, eight handed reel, dances in schoolhouses, dance prohibition, house parties. July 12, 1986. Interview with Mary Jane MacIsaac and Margaret Mac Dougall about their life, old-time sets, wedding reel, wedding dances, kitchen rackets, box party, house parties on Sundays, song-dances, dance occasions, box party. August 8, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-9 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Malcolm MacDonald about his life, dances when he was growing up, dances at homes and schools, frolics, waltz, music for the Scotch Four, seasons for dancing, collecting of the fiddles, making a living, fishing, weddings in Mabou, church picnics, dancing stages, electricity, stories about dances, changes in dancing, qualities of a good dancer, wedding reel, Gaelic song-dances, dancing on bridges, origin of the dance, mines in Cobalt (Ontario), floor surface for dancing, dress at a house party, food at house parties, transportation, distances traveled to attend a dance, differences in the sets, occasions for dances, Boston.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-10 · Item · 04 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Danny Wright and Jackie Ryan from Mabou Ridge about their life, church picnics, stages, differences between old-fashioned and the new sets, dances in halls, origin of the square dances, Scotch Four, dances in the country schoolhouses, dance prohibition, song-dances, jigging tunes, introduction of pianos. Second part of the interview with anonymous woman born in 1917 about dances in the past, occasions for dance, frolics, number of sets in a night, occasions for dance, weddings, Scotch Four, Gaelic sound-dances, jigging tunes, dance prohibition, step-dancing, seasons for dance, house parties, making a living, origins of the people, clothing.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-38 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Beverly Jeddore about her life, teaching dance, welcoming dance, celebration dance and clothing, beadwork, the game dance, the feather dance, the snake dance, the blanket dance, the wedding dance, the welcoming dance song, the celebration dance song, learning dances, the waltes game, with the community, learning the songs and dances, dances on the footwear, prayer and song, kind of footwear for dancing, older woman in Eskasoni who knows a lot.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-22 · Item · 31 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview and filming with Willie Fraser about his life, Gaelic songs and prayers, mouth music and Maureen dancing, history of his family, step-dancing, steps belonging to people, Willie's steps, number of steps in their repertoire, fiddle music in areas where Cape Bretoners live and travail, danced in Antigonish in 1948, figures in a set, number of couples in a set, double set. July 31, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-25 · Item · 26 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Mary Janet and Tammy MacDonald and Music from filming. They talk about their life, influences, teaching in Scotland, different styles, ethnic styles, body posture, and qualities of a good Cape Breton dancer, solo dancing at Glencoe, step-dance experience, dance occasions and school. Interview with Alexander MacDonald (fiddle) and Gerry MacNeil (guitar) play for the filming of Tammy step-dancing. They talk about Gordie MacDonald step-dancing, Mary Janet MacDonald step-dancing, Mary Janet's teaching of the steps without music.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-28 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Entrevue avec Luce Antoinette Bourgeois au sujet de sa vie, figures des sets, la boulangère, les moutons, l'escaouette, l'avoine, les picnics, origines des danses, les huit, la musique, turlutage, la boiteuse ermite, chanson à faire danser, vêtements, les prêtres et la danse. Interview with Loretta Chiasson about her life, teaching dance lessons, the Hully Gully, how she began to teach, villages where they have taught, shyness, teaching the waltz.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-30 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Father Eugene Morris about his life, Glencoe Mills, Public Halls, house parties, step-dancing during sets, number of figures in a set, exclusivity in the dance evenings, role of school in teaching traditional dance, transmission of traditional dance, dance teachers, teaching dancing, influences of other dancers on him, lessons, his method of teaching, repertoire, quality of good step-dancer, dancing and music running in families, qualities of a fiddler who plays for dancing, description of Cape North Set, description of the Sydney Set, Mabou dancers in other areas, Broad Cove Concert, difference between concerts and picnics, priest's role in maintaining dance and music heritage, difference between French and Scottish priest in regards to dance.

Canadian Museum of History
Mederic Teaching Square Set
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-32 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Mederic Teaching Square Set - Place de naissance, introduction au film, les figures un à quatre, noms des danseurs, number of figures in a set and the swing.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-2 · Item · 01 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Margaret Ann Beaton about her life, employment, step-dancing in family, weddings, fiddlers, song-dances, etc., and interview with Joe Rankin about his life, step-dancing, number of steps in repertoire, qualities of a step-dancer, Glencoe Mills, structure of set at Glencoe, number of figures, fiddler following the set, parties, weddings, seasons for dance, etc., July 1, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-5 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Owen Dan Gillis about his life, qualities of a good step-dancer, publicity for dances, travel to dances, the calls, dance prohibition, etc. Interview with Donald Hughie MacDougall about his life, dancing with pipes, house parties, weddings, Canadian Legion dances, Jigging tunes, Gaelic song-dances or games.

Canadian Museum of History
Scottish Step Dancing
CMH 86-46-BEG-Vc-85-2 · Item · 1 Aug. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a videocassette recording of various events and scenes filmed for the Inverness County Dance Project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCGpYxo4lNE

Recording notes:

Location: Glencoe Mills Hall, Glencoe Mills, Cape Breton, July 31, 1986
Musicians: Buddy MacMaster and Dougie MacPhee
Prompter: Robert Gillis
Square set: Dancers - AJ and Jeannette Beaton, Harvey Beaton, Paula Cameron, Mary and Danny Graham, Sheldon and Marlene MacInnis
Step Dances: Coralee and Debra MacDonald, Rodney MacDonald, Pellerine Brothers, Joe Rankin

Location: Rankins Bed and Breakfast, Mabou Harbour, Cape Breton, August 1, 1986
a) Step dance: Coralee and Debra MacDonald (Music with a tape of Buddy MacMaster)

Location: Minnie MacMaster's House, Creignish, Cape Breton, August 1, 1986
Step dances
Musicians and step dancers:
Stan Chapman, fiddle
Ashley MacIsaac, fiddle, step-dance
Jackie Dunn, fiddle, piano, step-dance
Dougie MacDonald, fiddle
Natalie MacMaster, fiddle, step-dance
Maybelle Chisholm MacQueen, piano
Wendy MacIsaac, fiddle, step-dance
Minnie MacMaster, step-dance
Kate Dunlay, fiddle, step-dance

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-8 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Archie Neil Chisholm - continuation from tape LEB/SAY-Ac-7 - about origins of square dancing, sources for the calls, dance prohibition, why were Church authorities against dances situations, the bagpipes, wedding, introduction of organ and piano and guitar, tunes, music and dance in families, local composers, song-dances, round dances or play-party songs.

Canadian Museum of History
Entrevue avec Sam Cormier
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-13 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Entrevue avec Sam Cormier au sujet de sa vie, l'interdiction de la danse, les occasion de danse, les veillées, l'été, les touristes et la danse, maisons connues pour les soirées de danse, les noces, comment faire la bière, les noces, l'accordéon, les pique-niques, valse, fox-trot, rapport danseur et musicien, qualités d'un beau danseur, style Irlande dans le compté, qualités des fiddlers, le style du Cap-Breton.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-14 · Item · 13 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Peter MacKay (1986-07-13) about his life, occasions for dancing, calls for the Saratoga Lancers, books, prompting at house parties, changes in the sets, church parties, box socials, slipper dance, the swing, Scotch Four, wedding reel and more figures, lancers. Interview with Joe "Tack" MacDougal (1986-07-14) about his life, prompting experience, Glencoe Mills, step dancing in the past, round-dancing, dances five nights of the week 1954-1959, after the war, jigging tunes.

Canadian Museum of History
Interview with James Cormier
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-19 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with James Cormier about his life, learning to step-dance, house parties, food at house parties, dancing lessons, qualities of a good step-dancer, other step-dancing lessons, teaching step-dancing, difference in style, occasions for dancing, callers, differences in sets, music for square dancing, dance surface, clothing, drinking, competition at concerts, concerts, church picnics, les vieilles danses, step-dance repertoire, young people and traditional dances, tunes for stepping, weddings, interaction between the communities his girlfriend dances.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-21 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Maureen MacKenzie about her life, type of dancing, learning process, figures, numbering of couples, teaching figures, change in set, dancing running in families, church picnics, weddings and the stages for dancing, the wedding reel, jigging tunes, song or game dances, learning of dance in school, qualities of traditional dancing, dance context. Interview with Rodney MacDonald about his life, dancing in public, learning a square set, step-dancing, learning fiddling, occasions for dancing, qualities of a good step-dancer, floor surface for dancing, shoes, clothing for a concert and hall, past dancers.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-37 · Item · 23 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Donald MacLellan about his life, where he dances when he was young, dances in schoolhouses, going away to work in the States, dance content, Scotch Four, jigging tunes, house parties, lunch, piano, special houses for house parties, church picnics, selling lambs, stages at picnics, Flora Jessie MacDonald MacLellan, song-dances, wedding reel, funny story, dance prohibition, funny story. July 22, 1986. Interview with Mrs. MacInnis about her life, Dick's Call book, Dance Hall in the States, Dances in Cape Breton, picnics, figures in the set, prompters in the set, Scotch Four, schoolhouses, house parties. July 23, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-3 · Item · 02 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Mary and Donald Roddy Rankin about their life, dance evenings, situations for dances, lumber camps, fishing industry, cooperatives, coop stores and banks, the role of the Church, song-dances, priest, Church picnic, etc., Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, July 2, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-11 · Item · 04 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Angus Central Beaton about their life, dance evening when he was growing up, jigging tunes, Scotch Four, Church discouraged socializing, qualities of a good step-dancer, fiddlers better for dancing, dress for a dance, changes in dance, song-dances, wedding reel, wedding celebrations, picnic platforms, emigration, influence on t.v. and radio, music dance in school as a child, dancing masters, origin of people in this area, learning process, practising, where do they dance, role of the school, how many steps and figures in repertoire, clothing for dance, dance floor surface, sounds of the feet.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-12 · Item · 05 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with John Morris Rankin about his life, beginning to play the fiddle and piano, types of tunes on fiddle for dancing, relationship between fiddler and dancers, number of rounds per tune per figure, qualities of a good fiddler.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-39 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Lee Cremo - 1st part - about his life, father and the fiddle, learning, Easter Open (speaks about that contest), his first record, Tennessee Championship, his bowing and style of playing, playing for dances, differences in styles of dancing, step-dancing and tap-dancing, his music band, Mi'kmaw music on fiddle and God and music, verbal music, First Nation Meeting in Saskatchewan, dance at Christmas Island, fiddle music considered evil, fiddlers in Mi'kmaw community, occasions for dancing, performance dances, wedding dance, chief of dancing, wedding dance.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-17 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Entrevue avec André AuCoin et Joseph AuCoin au sujet de leur vie, qualités d'un bon danseur, les meilleurs violoneux pour danser ici, types de danse, les sets, aimer danser, house party, calleur Wilfred Boudreau, origine des sets, chandeleur, noces, vêtements, les figures.

Canadian Museum of History
Interview with Jerry Holland
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-23 · Item · 21 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Jerry Holland about his life, fiddle experiences, learning new tunes, styles, Irish style, the Cape Breton style, ornamentation, Scottish style, Buddy MacMaster, qualities of a good fiddler, step-dancing, places where he stepped and danced, playing for dances, influences in his musical life, dances in Boston, qualities of a good step-dancer, where he plays, playing at Glencoe, changes in the Cheticamp area. July 21, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-24 · Item · 13 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Duncan A. MacDonald about his life, dancing, box parties, church picnics, weddings, jigging tunes, story about a box party. Interview with Hugh MacDonald about his life, plain sets, Saratoga Lancers, Scotch Four, qualities of a dancer, house parties, names of fiddlers, double sets, origin of dances, quarter dances, Hall dances, clothing, going to dances in the country, wedding reel, jigging tunes, song-dances. July 13, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-29 · Item · 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Listen to this recording here: http://beaton.cbu.ca/atom/audio/86-46_29.mp3

Interview with Sandy and Lucy MacIntyre about their life, Cape Breton Club in Toronto, figures at the French Club in Toronto, the French set, teaches step-dancing, hockey, parties, alcohol at dances, house party, growing up in Cape Breton, coming home to Cape Breton in the summer, bars at dances, dance and priest, dances in the fifties, phenomenon of returning to Cape Breton, consider a move back to Cape Breton, strength of dance in Cape Breton, schoolhouse dances, work in Toronto, weddings. Interview with Alex Murphy about his life, Irish dancing to-day in Inverness County, figures, callbook, figures, second figure, step-dance in the first and second figure, number of sets on floor, swing, dance prohibition, calling.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-34 · Item · 11 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Aland MacDonald about his life, dancing in the Judique Hall, more couples in the set, describe calls, music for the figures, swing, dance occasions, picnics, step-dancing, stages, weddings, dance prohibition, the Scotch Four, Jigging tunes, song-dances, music in his family, house parties, frolics. Interview with Robert Gillis about his life, house parties, number of figures and descriptions, round-racing and swing positions, waltzing and round-dancing by itself, first, second and third figure, grand chain, origin of square dance, church picnics, pay for prompters, caller on the stage. July 11, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-36 · Item · 24 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Interview with Hughie Livingstone about his life, the figures and their calls, calling cards, prompting experiences, number of couples to a set, dances in Massachusetts, dances in the summer, picnics, the stage, length of picnic. July 23, 1986. Interview with Dan Hughie MacKinnon about his life, dances different from place to place, prompting experience, electricity, recreation, house parties, milling frolics, the scotch four. July 24, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History
Interview with Doug MacPhee
CMH 86-46-86-46 LEB/SAY-Ac-1 · Item · 25 Jun. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Doug MacPhee about his life, music, dance, step-dancing, context for dance, fishing and farming, qualities of a good accompanist, etc., June 25, 1986.

Canadian Museum of History