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CA BI MG 6.76 · Fonds · 1987-1994

Fonds consists of essays from an annual essay competition at the University College of Cape Breton, advancing research in traditional history, songs, narrative traditions of Gaelic culture. Essays are arranged by year of competition.

  1. 1987/88:
    a. Marilyn Dwyer, "Presenting, The Ancient Tradition of Gaelic Psalm Singing in the Presbyterian Church". Essay includes three tapes with an index. T-3193 (a-b-c)
    b. Kate Dunlay, "Cape Bretoners in Boston: Maintaining Identity".
    c. Donald J. MacNeil, "Cape Breton Folksong Tradition".

  2. 1988/89:
    a. Marilyn Dwyer, "An nì nach cluinn mi an diugh chan aithris mi 'maireach, Eòin MacGilliosa MacFhionghuin (Jonathan Gillies MacKinnon)".
    b. Marilyn MacDonald, "Milling Frolics on the North Shore a Look at the Past, Present, and Future". One video tape is included. FT 41
    c. Winnifred J. MacDonald, "Sang abune a' sang" (Collections, Composers, and Fiddlers). One audio tape is included. T-3194

  3. 1990: Kathleen Dunlay, "The Playing of Traditional Scottish Music: Old and New - World Styles and Practices".

  4. 1991: Jacqueline Ann Dunn,"Tha Blas na Gàidhlig Air A h- Uile Fidhleir". (The Sound of Gaelic is in the Fiddler's Music)

  5. 1992: Jeff MacDonald,"Bràighe na H-Aibhne Iarmad mo Shluaigh" (Life and Times of the Scottish Settlers at St. Mary's Parish, River Denys Area.)

  6. 1993-1994: Margaret Bennett "Gaelic Song in Eastern Canada: Twentieth Century Reflections"

  7. 1994: K. Diane Grant "A Study of the Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and Nova Scotia"

  8. 1994: Rannie Gillis "Celtic Education". Family history and an account of how one would be enculturated and socially educated in the Gaelic culture of Cape Breton.

  9. 1994: Paula Rice "Mary with the Ewe". Agricultural practices in Scotland and pioneer Cape Breton.

DJ MacDermaid: Fonn is Furan
MG 21.8-T-3027 · Item · 1987
Part of D.J. MacDermaid Songs & Stories Collection

Item is a sound recording of Fonn is Furan. All songs sung by Donald John MacDermaid of Framboise and Massachusetts.

Cassette notes it as tape #109.

Track List: Side A
Track A1 - A'Chuthag. 03:18
Track A2 - Eilidh. 03:25
Track A3 - Gad Chuimhneachadh. 04:03
Track A4 - Laithean Sona m-Òige. Composed by Dan Alex MacDonald of Framboise. 04:55
Track A5 - Càite Bheil i ann am Muile. 03:17
Track A6 - Moladh an Lanndaidh. 04:01
Track A7 - Oran Maraiche (Mo Chridhe Trom 's cha Charaich e) 08:47
Track A8 - Gura Truagh nach robh Mise an Eilean an Fhraoich.

Side B
Track B1 - Daolagan Cholarada. 05:13
Track B2 - An Gille Donn. 04:38
Track B3 - Nigheanan Ruairidh. Composed by Dan MacDonald (Mac Dhòmhnaill 'ic Alasdair 'ic Ruairidh). of Gabarus In: Beyond the Hebrides p. 164. 02:25
Track B4 - Iain a Luaidh Nach Pòs Thu. 07:27
Track B5 - Clachan Ghlinn Da-Ruadhail. 03:26
Track B6 - Mairi Bhain Dhail-an-Eas. 05:45
Track B7 - Turus gu Glaschu. Composed by Neil MacLeod, Scotland. 05:45

Brown Brothers of Washabuck
CA BI FT-213 · Item · Dec. 1987
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is a videocassette recording of The Brown Brothers of Washabuck, Cape Breton, produced in December 1987 and edited by Lisa Morrison, Audio/Visual Department, UCCB. Directed by Maxie MacNeil, Hector MacKenzie, and Michael Anthony MacLean.

Introduction
Family History (2:20)
Caledonia Song
Hoodlum Song (3:41)
Grandmother Story (7:32)
Song from the Old Homestead (9:19)
Vince MacLean’s Story (14:41)
Bordon Song (16:55)
Bear Dance (18:17)
Imitations (21:25)
Michael and the Fiddle (22:13)
New Year’s Story (Tody)
Flora’s Story
Home Movie – Michael humming “Duddledum”
No Sir No
Cod Liver Oil
Yon Munroe
Michael Anthony’s Story
Wedding Song
Sister’s Story
Kay MacLean’s Story
Michael Imitating Bagpipes
Dr. and the Bear
Gaelic Song
Hector’s Story
Malcolm MacDonald
Cemetery
Ending Collage

Narrator: Hector MacKenzie

Photographs and home movies in order of appearance:

Dan Brown, Michael Brown, Dan Rory (Murdock) MacNeil

Rory D. MacNeil, Joan MacNeil, Dan Angus MacNeil

Hughie MacLeod, Angus MacDonald

Jackie (Fownes) MacDonald, Michael Brown

Maxie MacNeil, Vince MacLean, Michael A. MacLean, Hector MacKenzie, Flora Canning

Upper Washabuck School located near Angus Ranald MacDonald. (“Big” Liza Campbell – Teacher. Two Browns on extreme right of picture – Michael and Dan.)

Store at Washabuck Bridge with potential local customers and teamsters.

Maxie MacNeil, Hector MacKenzie, Kay MacLean, Annie (Sister) MacLean, Flora Canning, Gordon MacLean (Guitar), Sniffer (dog), Simon MacKenzie

John Dan MacKenzie – store owner at Washabuck Bridge and Eddie MacLean (on right)

Kathleen MacLean, Rita MacDougall

Johnnie Brown, Michael Brown

Square set people:

Leonard MacKenzie, Jeanette MacKenzie, Lawrence MacDougall – Fiddler, Cassie MacKenzie, Florence MacKenzie, Aggie and Neil F. MacLennan, Eugene MacIsaac, Joe (Red Rory) MacLean – Prompter, Michael A. MacLean, Malcolm MacDonald, Michael Brown, Jean MacKenzie, Lexina Fraser

Mary C. MacDonald, Michael Brown, Dan Brown, Lexina Fraser

Dan Brown, Michael Brown, Alex Murphy

Cheryl MacDonald, Wanda MacDonald, Mary Ann MacKenzie, Dan Brown

Michael Brown, Jackie MacDonald, Rosemary MacKinnon, Dan Brown, Mary C. MacKinnon, Andy MacDonald

Wedding party at Highland Hill: Maxie and Joan MacNeil – Bride and groom, Michael (S.R.) MacNeil – Fiddler, Kammie (S.R.) MacNeil – Guitar, Annie Jane MacNeil – Dancer, Patricia MacNeil, Diane MacNeil, Capt. Angus MacNeil, John Rory MacNeil, Lex MacNeil, Dan Malcolm MacKinnon, Peggy (Dan Joe) MacNeil, Unknown female, Dan Brown, Unknown female

Michael Brown, Rose MacKenzie, Lex Fraser, Jean MacKenzie, Kathleen MacDonald, Michael A. MacLean, Duncan MacDonald, Mary C. MacDonald, Front: Michael MacDonald, Michael Brown, Dan Brown

Greg MacNeil (Bear), Arnold MacNeil (Doctor)

Dan Brown, Jean MacKenzie, Michael Brown

Wedding at Upper Washabuck: Dan Alex and Martha MacKinnon, with neighbours and friends

In horse and wagon – Big Neil MacKinnon, Kitty (Charlie Dan Angus) MacNeil

Framboise Gaelic Songs #107
MG 21.8-T-3025 · Item · 1952-1987
Part of D.J. MacDermaid Songs & Stories Collection

Item is a sound recording of Gaelic songs.

Cassette notes it as tape #107.

Track List: Side A
Track A1 - Òran a'Chàr. Somposed by Dan Alex MacDonald of Framboise. Singer: Alex MacLeod, Framboise. In: Songs from Framboise p.31. 02:34
Track A2 - Song with piano accompaniment. Unintelligible. (North Shore Ladies) 01:55
Track A3 - Och mar tha mi 's mi nam Aonair. An Gille Donn. Poor audio quality. SInger: unknown. 13:20
Track A4 - Càit' an Caidil Nionag aNochd. Singer: Unknown 06:53
Track A5 - 'S e Ceap Breatainn Tìr mo Ghràidh. Composed by Dan Alex MacDonald of Framboise. Singer: unknown. 02:58
Track A6 - Tha Mo Run air a'Ghille. SInger: Unknown 03:51

Side B
Track B1 - Canada Thìr an Àigh. Composed by Catherine (MacLeod) MacInes of Framboise. Singer: D.J. MacDonald. In: Beyond the Hebrides p.131. 03:34
Track B2 - Òran Gàidheal air Fògradh. Composed by James R. Morrison of Framboise. Signer: D.W. Strachan, Stirling. 02:42
Track B3 - Am Bràighe. Composed by Malcom H. Gillis, Southwest Margaree. SInger: Angus MacDonald. 03:50
Track B4 - Mo Shùil 'ad Dhéidh. Singer: D.W. Strachan,Stirling. 06:04
Track B5 - Daolagan Cholarado. Singer: D.J. MacDermaid of Framboise and Massachusetts. 04:15
Track B6 - The Party Telephone (English) (D.J. MacDermaid) 05:13
Track B7 - Gaol nan Cruinneag. Singer: Unknown.
Track B8 - Eilean mo Chridhe. Singer: Angus MacDonald.
Track B10 -Air a' Cheud Là do'n t-Sàmhradh. Composed by Sam Patterson of Stirling. Singer: D.J. MacDermaid of Framboise and Massachusetts. In: Beyond the Hebrides p. 197.

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-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-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-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-15 · Item · 14 Jul. 1986
Part of Inverness County Dance Project

Item is a sound recording of an interview with Joe "Tack" MacDougal - continuation from tape LEB/SAY-Ac-14 - about his life, prompting experiences, fitting the calls to the music, box socials, hay frolics, the term "kitchen racket", barn raising frolic, weddings, wedding reel, floor surface for dancing. Interview with Greg Smith and his wife Sally about their life, dancing in the area, nights for square dancing, Scotch Four, milling frolic, house parties, pipes for dancing, jigging tunes, sets in an evening, square sets, Antigonish area, different set after Margaree, difference in fiddling styles, church picnics.

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-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
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