#cape breton

[corvidist]

Raven couple - Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia

#photography #canada #nova scotia #cabot trail #Raven #corvid #corvids #ravens #birds #bird #birdblr #birding #birdwatching #coast #rocky coast #nature #ecology #cape breton #preening #cliffs #wholesome #love

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Cape Breton Highlands ~ By emgarf on Reddit

Source:  https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/15254ze/cape_breton_highlands_oc5264x7467/

#Cape Breton #Nova Scotia #forest #woods #fog #mist #nature #nature photography #photography #green #green gray #spruce trees

[allthecanadianpolitics]

For Cape Breton-based Rabbi Naj Siritsky, there's euphoria in becoming true to oneself, even in the face of discrimination.

Siritsky is transgender and non-binary and said the process of transitioning has been deeply spiritual.

"I didn't even know it was possible to feel the joy that I feel of becoming me … because it was denied to me by a lot of trauma of this world," they said.

Siritsky and Alberta-based queer advocate Pam Rocker have founded a new Queer Interfaith Coalition. The coalition aims to unite queer and transgender people across different religious backgrounds and regions to fight hate and misinformation targeting the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Its members believe that advocacy for the rights of 2SLGBTQ+ people is compatible with and linked to core parts of their faith. [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

#cdnpoli #Cape Breton #Nova Scotia #lgbt+ #religious lgbt+

[triflingthing]

Give me a spookier October hike (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia)

#october #spooky #autumn #fall colors #fall vibes #vsco #vscocam #iphonography #travelblr #wanderlust #Canada #nova scotia #cape breton #spooky vibes #fallblr #autumnal

[vox-anglosphere]

Our thoughts are with the Maritimes after this week's epic snowfall.

#Main Street #Sydney #Cape Breton #Nova Scotia #snowstorm #Prince Edward Island #New Brunswick #blizzard #5' of snow #Maritimes #downtown #abandoned cars #Canadian winter

[genderwrath]

summer 2021

#my art #35mm #cape breton #nova scotia #photography #finally going thru a huge backlog of old art to post my favs yayyyyy

[kung-fu-grandma]

One thing I want to point out to Scottish Gaelic speakers, especially those based in Scotland, as well as speakers of Irish, regarding the pronunciation of the word "Gaelic" when used to refer to Scottish Gaelic specifically:

In Nova Scotia, the word is pronounced "GAY-lick". It's not necessarily "wrong" to pronounce it that way.

It's rare that a person using the word is even aware that Gaelic is still spoken in Nova Scotia, and even more rare that they're using it in that context, Just something to keep in mind. I pronounce it GAY-lick because that's the dialect that I'm learning, and I've had people "correct" me on my pronunciation before.

#gaelic #scottish gaelic #gaidhlig #gàidhlig #nova scotia gaelic #cape breton #irish

[alexplantewpg]

Canadian East Coast tourism posters!

#eastern canada #maritimes #new brunswick #hopewell rocks #cape breton #nova scotia #cabot trail #newfoundland #pei #prince edward island #cavendish beach #vintage tourism poster #canada #god i forgot to post SO MUCH ART here prepare yourself for a BARRAGE

[zal-cryptid]

#nova scotia #prince edward island #canada #maritimes #map #cartography #cape breton

[0rph3u5]

another winter storm approaching; the last of the season, one hopes

#original photography #original photographers on tumblr #cape breton

[corvidist]

Breakwater Ravens - Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia

#photography #raven #common raven #corvid #nova scotia #nature #cape breton #cabot trail #storm #coast #birdblr #birding #bird photography #birdwatching #bird #canada #ravens #couple #rain

[theedfather]

#cape breton #photography #nova scotia #mine #nikon d300 #dslr photography #east coast #martimes

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Cape Breton University is partnering with a Glace Bay organization on a program to pair students looking for a safe and affordable place to live with seniors who have room to spare. 

The hope is that the program can benefit both students and seniors alike, says Patti McDonald, the executive director of Town House, a Glace Bay organization that aims to help marginalized people in the community. 

Many seniors, she said, live alone in large homes that can be difficult to heat and maintain. Students, meanwhile, can often struggle finding affordable housing near school. 

McDonald said the idea is that students and seniors will apply to be part of the program. Once matched, the student will pay an estimated $750 a month for the accommodations, but also be expected to help out around the house. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #Cape Breton University #housing crisis #neoliberalism #Cape Breton #Nova Scotia

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Celebrations of the second anniversary of the Provincial Workmen’s Association [PWA], held on 2 September 1882 and detailed in the Trades Journal, signalled a new public presence for the miners in Cape Breton County. Union loyalties that had been forced underground in earlier decades were now openly and widely vaunted, and they were powerfully shaped by Highland cultural forms and symbols. At Cow Bay, members of Eastern and Banner Lodges assembled and marched in procession to welcome lodges from Little Glace Bay (Keystone) and Big Glace Bay (Wilson). “So enrapturing was Scotland’s favorite melody to whose note they marched, that the countryman is excusable who mistook them for a rising clan who had substituted the uniform blue for the Tartan.” Joining with the Glace Bay lodges about a mile outside the village, the members of the four lodges proceeded together through the Gowrie Mines and the Block House Mines before assembling on the picnic ground

At Caledonia Mines, 100 members of Equity Lodge gathered and “formed into a procession and marched gaily from thence to the invigorating strains of [a] highland pibroch,” through the “manager’s beautiful park, then to Bridgeport.” Here, the procession was joined by members of Island Lodge as well as the Reserve Mines lodge (Unity). The enlarged procession of about 450, clothed in PWA regalia, carried on through the Lorway Mines before arriving at Reserve, where several platforms had been erected in an open field. On these, the men with their “wives, sweethearts, cousins and aunts … danced to the best music the Island of C.B. could furnish.” At 12:30, the group moved to a hall where “the tables groaned under a bountiful supply of the good things of this life”; later, the manager, D. J. Kennelly, paid a visit and was “well pleased with the deportment of ‘his boys.’” Members of Equity Lodge departed afterward in order to attend a “grand ball” at Little Glace Bay that lasted until 9 p.m.

Exactly three weeks later, Drummond Lodge celebrated its first anniversary at Sydney Mines and North Sydney. A procession of 250 members of Drummond Lodge, along with members of some of the other lodges, was gathered. A correspondent reported the scene:

the order of the march was two deep. First came four pioneers followed by the ‘drum and fife’ corps, next our country’s flag, the Union Jack, next officers of lodge, next a body of at least 100 Brothers, next and near to centre, our banner borne by four bros. with the words ‘Drummond Lodge No. 8 of P.W.A.[’] on one side, and Unity, Equity, and Progress, on the other side. Close by marched two of our native pipers, who well performed their part, followed by the remainder of procession in the midst of whom were two more of our native ‘sons of heather’ with their bag pipes.

The procession moved to Albert Corbett’s storefront, where “three deafening cheers” were given to the sympathetic merchant before the group continued on to North Sydney. Here, the streets were crowded with spectators. W. H. Moore & Co., supporters of the miners in the 1876 strike, had set up a line of flags for the occasion, one of which was stamped “success to the P.W.A.” Three cheers were made for this mercantile enterprise. !e group then returned to Sydney Mines to gather at the Temperance Hall, where three platforms were set up for dancers “young and old,” “treading time to the rich violin music of Messrs. T. Ling and J. Nicholson, and to the music of the pipers.”

The place of the fiddle, pipes, and step dancing at these gatherings revealed ways in which Highland cultural traditions became integrated into the common culture of the coal country. Support from local merchants and sympathetic mine managers, as well as associations with British loyalism, confirmed the sense of a stable and powerful PWA presence. And the processions through the coal villages carried considerable symbolic importance as a claim upon public space. !is was the environment that sustained the Lingan strike. The Glace Bay Mining Company had agreed to take on workmen from Lingan as Drummond operated, in effect, as adviser to the company; the Cape Breton PWA lodges contributed to a fund to support the strikers; and William McDonald accommodated the Glace Bay Mining Company and the prevailing feeling on the ground. The miners and the PWA commanded considerable local strength."

- Don Nerbas, “‘Lawless Coal Miners’ and the Lingan Strike of 1882–1883: Remaking Political Order on Cape Breton’s Sydney Coalfield,” Labour/Le Travail 92 (Fall 2023), 107-109.

#cape breton #glace bay nova scotia #coal mining #coal miners #mining company #resource extraction #resource capitalism #nineteenth century canada #working class struggle #union organizing #social history #canadian history #working class history #academic quote #reading 2024 #scottish immigration to canada

[my-name-is-dahlia]

Chimney Corner by Rob Romard Via Flickr: looking North towards Margaree Harbour

#Chimney Corner #beach #dunes #sand #ocean #cliffs #cottages #sunset #flickr #margaree harbour #cape breton #canada #nova scotia #av

[bethanyeliseart]

unama'ki (cape breton) & lotr sketchbook page ☀️

The left piece is gouache which I'm hoping to use more this year! The other two pieces are in pencil & colored pencil.

#cape breton #lord of the rings #éowyn #finished the lotr extended editions the other day so I'm now in a big lotr mood #I used to doodle éowyn a lot in high school so it was fun to finally draw her again!