Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island

First published in 1999, and long since out of print, Italian Lives, Cape Breton Memories is now re-released for a new generation, Italian Lives, Cape Breton Me

Italians came to Canada to seek a better life. From the 1870s to the 1920s they arrived in large numbers and found work mainly in mining, railway building, fore

A major new work of history, told through the stories of a teeming cast of characters. The history of coal is the story of the last two centuries of the industr