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Item is an audio recording of a ceilidh in Boisdale.

Recording summary:

Gaol an t-Seoladair - MacLean, Mrs. Rod - Love song

Chi mi bhuam, fada bhuam - MacLean, Mrs. Rod - Lament - Composed by Alasdair a' Ridge, After he moved to Antigonish from Mabou in his old age

an Loch Mhor - Nicholson, Rod - Rear Beaver Cove - breaking the Sabbath

Gille Calum - Campbell, Michael - Cantaireachd - Composed by Hugh MacKenzie

Oran an Telephone - Barra Glen - MacKenzie, Hugh - Humorous - C.B. - Composed by Hugh MacKenzie

Oran a' Bhocain - MacKenzie, Hugh - Humorous - C.B.

Oran na Mohacks - MacKenzie, Hugh - Humorous - C.B.

Stop your Tickling, Jock - Nicholson, Rod - Humorous - C.B. - Gaelic translation

Lament for his old home - Nicholson, Rod - Lament - C.B. - Composed by Archie Gillis after leaving his old home at Rear Beaver Cove

Song composed in Scotland - MacKenzie, Archie - Love song

O gur toigh leam, e gur toigh leam - MacDonald, Joseph L. - Song in praise of Gaelic - Composed by Malcolm MacNeil (Calum Iain a' Mhuillear)

Old MacDonald had a farm - MacKenzie, Hugh - Humorous - Gaelic translation by Hugh MacKenzie

Oran a' bhata - MacKenzie, Hugh - Humorous - Composed by Hugh MacKenzie when his father made a cane

Item is an audio recording of Gaelic songs performed by various informants the in the Boisdale / Christmas Island area.

MacLean, Mrs. Rod - Gaol an t-Seoladair

MacLean, Mrs. Rod - Chi mi bhuam, fada bhuam

Nicholson, Rod - an Loch Mhor

Campbell, Michael - Gille Calum

MacKenzie, Hugh - Oran an Telephone - Barra Glen

MacKenzie, Hugh - Oran a' Bhocain

MacKenzie, Hugh - Oran na Mohacks

Nicholson, Rod - Stop your Tickling, Jock

Nicholson, Rod - Lament for his old home

MacKenzie, Archie - Song composed in Scotland

MacDonald, Joseph L. - O gur toigh leam, e gur toigh leam

MacKenzie, Hugh - Old MacDonald had a farm

MacKenzie, Hugh - Oran a' bhata

Item is an audio recording of various singers performing Gaelic songs.

MacDonald, J. Lawrence Gaels came to Cape Breton (1800-1835)

MacDonald, J. Lawrence Fhleasgaich ur, leannain thu

MacDonald, J. Lawrence Ho ro i horo nan

MacDonald, J. Lawrence Faill ill oro faill o

MacDonald, J. Lawrence Ill il u ill robha o

MacDonald, J. Lawrence S toigh leam cruinneag donn nam bo

MacDonald, J. Lawrence Hug orann o robha ho

Campbell, Michael J. Cantaireachd

Campbell, Michael J. Gur mi tha gu bronach

Nicholson, R. Loch mor

Nicholson, R. Native song

Campbell, Mrs. An t-each odhar

Campbell, Mrs. Suileach monadh

Campbell, Dan Mhali bheag og

Beaton, Joe Fa mo mhulaid

Patterson, D Ged a'sheoil mi air m'aineol

Patterson, D I oho tha mi fo leon dubh

Item is an audio recording of Roddie F. Nicholson and Patrick Nicholson discussing the history of Rear Beaver Cove.

Nicholson, Patrick (Boston, Worcester)

    The beginnings of the settlement at the Backlands of Beaver Cove
The pioneers brought only two trunks - one for bedclothes, the other for tools
All was lost in a fire...

Nicholson, Rod Beaver Cove:

Settlers took large tracts of land because it was free
Beaver Cove Forty families lived in the Backlands at that time
People were very musical, good dancers

Nicholson, Patrick Boston:

Tracing genealogy
    Marriages were arranged well in the early days
    Food was plentiful
Mills, churns and grindstones...
The history of one particular family

Nicholson, Rod Beaver Cove:

Genealogy of some family
Genealogy of some families
Bagpipes, fiddle and loom in every house
Four children died in one night...
People had faith - walked six miles to church

Nicholson, Patrick Boston:

Parish lesson written on a shingle
The first settlers at Beaver Cove
Schools and teachers in yesteryear
    Church services were all in Gaelic
Archie Gillis got the priest to cure his wife

Nicholson, Rod Beaver Cove:

Priests confiscated violins
Strange stories of second sight
Jack the Lantern - Jack the River
His grandmother's death at the age of ninety four

Item is an audio recording of a conversation with Roddie F. Nicholson and John Nicholson.

Song concerning the building of the house

I can write a letter, I can read a letter, and I can send a letter anywhere!

What subjects were taught in school

Did they write well in the back woods?

Mental figuring

What about the cats whiskers?

Tell us all you know about local history

Diseases and cures of the times

Were people brought into build houses?

No one was lazy in those days. No very rich, no very poor.

Could they make a living off the land now as they did in your times?

Diseases such as appendicitus were certain death in those times?

Was there any heavy drinking in those times?

Story of the Jack O Lantern