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The Cape Breton Symphony
CA BI 84-493-14593 · Item · ca. 1975

Item is a photograph of the four fiddlers of the Cape Breton Symphony: Winston 'Scotty' Fitzgerald, Wilfred Gillis, Jerry Holland, and John Donald Cameron. The Cape Breton Symphony was a well known musical group that began on John Allan Cameron’s weekly TV shows in the 1970s.

Stephen D.R. MacNeil
CA BI 77-474-608 · Item · ca. 1890

Item is a photograph of Stephen D.R. MacNeil, a bard from Benacadie.

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

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Scottish Step Dancing
CMH 86-46-86-46 BEG-Vc-81-1 · Item · 26 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a videocassette recording of various events and scenes filmed for the Inverness County Dance Project. The footage consists of stepdancing demonstrations by Tammy MacDonald, Gordon MacDonald, and Mary Janet MacDonald filmed on location at Mary Janet's house in Port Hood, square sets at an outdoor stage in Judique, a square dance in Valley Mills at the Marble Mountain Firehall, and a square dance at the hall in Orangedale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLg4HsEIOCY

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Scottish Concert, Boisdale
CA BI 89-623-18818 · Item · 6 July 1969

Item is a photograph of a Scottish concert at Boisdale with St. Andrew's Church and glebe house in the background.

Doucette, Raymond
Saint Andrew's Day Banquet
CA BI 78-109-1859 · Item · 1977

Item is a photograph of the 1977 St. Andrew's Day Banquet. Gaelic speaker, educator and radio host Mary Catherine 'Kay' MacDonald is featured in the photograph. Also featured is retired politician Allan J. MacEachen.

Reverend Stanley MacDonald
CA BI 76-67 · Item · 1966

Item is a photograph of Piper Danny MacIntyre piping Father Stanley to the reception in honor of his retirement in Big Pond, Cape Breton.

Milling Frolic, North Shore
CA BI 84-426-14526 · Item · ca. 1980

Item is a photograph of a milling frolic on the North Shore area of St. Ann's Bay. Featured in this iconic image from left to right: John Alex ( John X. ) MacDonald, Neil R. MacDonald, Gwennie Pottie, Jessie Mary MacLeod, Alex Kerr, Dan Murdock Morrison, and Bessie MacInnis in the background.

Fitzgerald, Owen
CA BI 91-1076-23037 · Item · 1991

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of musician Mike MacDougall n St. Peter's Cemetery in Ingonish.

Prendergast, Paul
CA BI 91-1092-23053 · Item · 1991

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of musician Michael "Little Joe" MacNeil. Mr. MacNeil is buried in West Arichat.

Prendergast, Paul
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.

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