DOCSLIB.ORG

Cape Breton Teacher Wins 2014 Lieutenant Governor's Teaching

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

Mailed under Canada Post Publications Agreement Number 40063555. ISSN 0382-408X Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: 3106 Joseph Howe Drive Halifax, Nova Scotia. CANADA B3L 4L7 NOVA SCOTIA TEACHERS UNION VOLUME 52, NUMBER 8 JUNE 2014 Cape Breton teacher wins 2014 Lieutenant Governor’s Teaching Award drugs Group (LEAD) and is a liaison for Free2BU program that works with at risk youth to promote self-esteem and good decision making skills. “Teachers can and do make a difference,” said O’Leary. “We identify situations where we can help and provide guidance and support. We make students feel like they belong, that they are worthy, that they are important, and that they have great potential. Simple acts of kindness go a long way. Saying hello in the hallway, calling the student by name, showing an interest, or taking a moment with a student after class makes a difference. To paraphrase the late Maya Angelou, ‘A person may forget what you taught them but they will never forget Margot O’Leary, a school guidance how you made them feel.’” Shown (l-r): NSTU president Shelley Morse, Lt-Gov J.J. Grant, Margot O’Leary, and counsellor at Glace Bay High School, O’Leary’s passion is creating a safe, former Lieutenant Governor Myra A. Freeman. is the 2014 recipient of the Lieutenant supportive and welcoming environment Governor’s Teaching Award. In a ceremony for all students to learn and grow. In her held at Government House, Lt.-Gov. J.J. role as one of Glace Bay High’s guidance Changes to Teachers' Pension Plan Announced Grant presented O’Leary with her award, counsellors, she has developed programs a specially designed Nova Scotian Crystal and networks that promote mental health. Government and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union have agreed to changes to the sculpture and a framed certificate to Through support from the Cape Breton Teachers’ Pension Plan. recognize this achievement. District Health Authority she has helped The contribution rate will increase by three percentage points and the disability “Teachers have a profound influence to create a youth advisory committee that pension provisions will be moved from the pension plan to the teachers' long-term on the lives of young people and the wider identifies needs in the school community disability insurance plan. community,” said Lt.-Gov. Grant. “It is and a mental health awareness group that “We expect the long-term health of the plan to gradually improve with these changes,” my privilege to recognize Ms. O’Leary’s hosted a day-long event promoting better said Diana Whalen, Minister of Finance and Treasury Board. “The plan partners will extraordinary commitment to the youth understanding of mental health issues. closely monitor the ongoing health of the plan.” of our province and to the teaching O’Leary has also worked on developing “These changes, made in partnership with the province, will help to ensure the long-term profession as a whole.” anti-violence and anti-bullying programs viability of the plan which currently reflects our best option for active members who are O’Leary has been a guidance for the school and one of her student leaders, paying into the plan,” said Shelley Morse, president of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. counsellor at Glace Bay High School was recently honoured with a Lieutenant The contribution rate increase will be spread over three years, with a one percentage since 2009, where she has provided Governor’s Respectful Citizenship Award. point increase beginning Aug. 1. leadership for the school’s Gay Straight “I am so pleased to be presenting this The province and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union are joint trustees of the pension Alliance (GSA) and education against continued on page 3 plan, which has 31,262 members. The plan covers public school teachers and members at the Nova Scotia Community College. It is 75 per cent funded. Regional information sessions for NSTU members took place the week of June 16 around the province to explain details of the changes for NSTU members. NSTU Summer Hours More information can be found at www.novascotiapension.ca/teachersplan/news. NSTU Summer Hours will be Monday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Fridays 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. These hours will be in effect from Wednesday, July 2 through to and including Friday, August 29. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, September 2. The NSTU office summer shutdown will be July 21 to August 4 inclusive. NSTU executive director Joan Ling leads a session on pension plan changes for NSTU members on June 16 at the NSTU building. https://www.facebook.com/nsteachersunion http://twitter.com/NSTeachersUnion http://www.youtube.com/nstuwebcast Community College members prepare for negotiations The Community College Economic Welfare Committee (CCEWC) held its inaugural meeting for the next round of negotiations and to begin working on the next asking package on May 5 and 6. A subsequent two-day meeting took place on May 22 and 23 (photo below). The committee was appointed at the February 20, 2014 meeting of the provincial executive. Requests for submissions from Community College members on the negotiations process closed on February 27. APSEA teacher wins national award Meetings for the 2014-15 school year are yet to be scheduled. The Community Karen Keats, a classroom teacher at APSEA College contract (both faculty and professional support) expires on August 31, 2014. Resource Centre in Halifax and the VP of The Nova Scotia Teachers Union represents close to 1,000 members in the Community Professional Development with the APSEA College system in both faculty and professional support bargaining units. Local was awarded with The Excellence in Teaching Award at Seeing Beyond the Horizon: the 2014 Canadian Conference for Educators, Parents and Professionals of Children and Youth who are Blind and Partially Sighted, held May 4-7 in Halifax. Besides being a super teacher, Keats also had a book published this year. Secret Letter to Santa, is about a child who is blind, who writes a letter to Santa and discovers that Santa reads Braille. She has also spent hours of her own time researching, raising thousands of dollars and organizing the purchase and installation of new playground equipment for all children—hearing and/ Seated (l-r): CCEWC chair and Community College provincial executive representative Louis or visually impaired or not—who visit the Keats is shown above with APSEA Robitalle (Lunenburg Campus, faculty); Laurie Dauphinee (Kingstec, faculty); Mike Kelly APSEA Resource Centre. superintendent Bertram Tulk. (Marconi Campus, faculty); and Damian Hall (Pictou Campus, faculty). Standing: staff The Excellence in Teaching Award is liaison Grant MacLean; Peggy Joiner (Truro Campus, faculty); Seana Blanchard (Waterfront presented to a teacher that demonstrates innovation and dedication as an educator of Campus, professional support); NSTU president Shelley Morse; Community College Local children and youth who are blind or partially sighted and whose service, innovative approach, president, Ferne MacLennan (Kingstec, faculty); and Ann Windsor-Hall (Pictou Campus, and dedication have been outstanding in the field of education of his or her students. professional support). Missing from the photo: Joan Ling, NSTU Executive Director. PACC Committee The Professional Associations Coordination Committee (PACC), held their final meeting of the school year on May 9 at the NSTU building in Halifax. This committee advises NSSAF’s Celebration of School Sport and recommends policy regarding NSTU’s professional associations (PA) to the NSTU The NSTU was once again a proud table sponsor for this year’s Celebration of provincial executive, reviews resolutions forwarded from professional associations, monitors School Sport, organized by the Nova Scotia School Athletic Foundation (NSSAF), financial status of PAs and assists PA executives with organizing, managing and directing held at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax on May 9. business of respective associations. Front row (l-r): Parrsboro Regional Elementary & High School principal Sue Stevenson; Annapolis-Hants West-Kings provincial executive member Belinda Snow; NSTU president Shelley Morse; and Duncan Cameron, Astral Drive Junior High School, Outstanding Service Award Coach recipient. Back row: Liverpool Regional Seated (l-r): Donalda Westcott (Nova Scotia Music Educators Association) and committee High School principal Terry Doucette; Nike Fluegge, Evangeline Middle School, chair Debbie McVeigh (Association of Adult Educators). Standing: Rick MacKinnon Outstanding Service Award Coach recipient; NSSAF past chair Kevin Walker; (Association of Teachers of Exceptional Children); Betty-Jean Aucoin, NSTU staff liaison Robert LeLievre, Inverness Education Centre/Academy, Outstanding Service Award to the committee; Brenda Newcombe (Primary Elementary Teachers Association); and Shari Coach recipient; and Amherst Regional High School principal Pamela Hoar. MacGillivray (Family Studies Teachers Association). Missing: provincial executive liaison Cindy MacKinnon; and Marlene Urquhart (Math Teachers Association). Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: 3106 Joseph Howe Drive, Halifax, NS B3L 4L7 Phone: 902-477-5621 Toll free: 1-800-565-6788 Fax: 902-477-3517 Email: [email protected] / Website: www.nstu.ca Mailed under Canada Post Publications Agreement Number 40063555. ISSN 0382-408X The opinions expressed in stories or articles do not necessarily reflect opinions or policy of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union, its staff or elected
Recommended publications
  • NSMB 1924 Vol.3(5) 1-40 OCR 300Dpi.Pdf

    NSMB 1924 Vol.3(5) 1-40 OCR 300Dpi.Pdf

    =,ii 111- 1 111 11 Ill Ill II Ill Ill 11 ill A TRIBU'fE. Ill II Ill 11 Ill '' (';HERE are mP-n, and classes of men, that Ill 11 Ill stand above the common herd; the Ill Ill soldier, the sailor, and the shepherd not infre­ Ill quently ; the artist rarely ; rarelier still, the 11 11 clergyman ; the physician almost as a rule. He I II is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization ; II and when that stage of men is done with, ·and II only rememhered to be marveled at in history, Ill he will be thought to have shared as little as any II Ill in the defects of the period, and most notably II II exhibited in the virtues of the race. Generosity 1 he has, such as is possible to those who practice II 11 I an art, never to those who drive a trade; discre­ I tion, tested by a hundred secrets ; tact, tried in a thousand embarrassments; and what are most I important, Herculean cheerfulness and courage. So it is that he brings air and cheer into the sick- I room, and, often enough, though not as often as Ill he wishes, brings healing." Ill R UDYARD KIPLING. II l= 2 PARENTERAL INFECTIONS - THEIR INFLUENCE ON NUTRITION IN INFANCY. GORDON WISWELL, M. D., HALIFAX, N. S. PART IL OTITIS MEDIA IN INF ANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN. As a common example of systemic infection I have cho3en lo discuss the symptoms, diagno3is and treatment of Otitis Media in infants. It has been our experience in our Welfare clinics that this condition with ordinary naso-pharyngitis or head colds, has been by far the most common factor interfering with the nutritional progress of the Baby.
  • Travelling in Time to Cape Breton Island in the 1920S: Protest Songs, Murals and Island Identity

    Travelling in Time to Cape Breton Island in the 1920S: Protest Songs, Murals and Island Identity

    Travelling in Time to Cape Breton Island in the 1920s: Protest Songs, Murals and Island Identity Richard MacKinnon and Lachlan MacKinnon Abstract Islands are places that foster a unique sense of place-attachment and com- munity identity among their populations. Scholarship focusing on the dis- tinctive values, attitudes and perspectives of ‘island people’ from around the world reveals the layers of meaning that are attached to island life. Lowenthal writes: ‘Islands are fantasized as antitheses of the all-engrossing gargantuan mainstream-small, quiet, untroubled, remote from the busy, crowded, turbu- lent everyday scene. In reality, most of them are nothing like that. …’1 Islands, for many people, are ‘imagined places’ in our increasingly globalised world; the perceptions of island culture and reality often differ. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in eastern North America, a locale with a rich history of class struggle surrounding its former coal and steel industries, provides an excellent case study for the ways that local history, collective memory and cultural expression might combine to combat the ‘untroubled fantasy’ that Lowenthal describes. History and methodology Coal mining has been an essential part of Cape Breton Island’s landscape since the early-eighteenth century. A steel mill was constructed in Sydney, the island’s largest city, in 1899; this steel plant provided employment for many of the island’s inhabitants throughout the twentieth century. Grid-patterned streets, dotted with company-owned homes, formed around the industrial workplaces in many Cape Breton communities. It was in these communities, from the people employed in the coal mines and steel mill, that distinctive traditions of work and leisure began to emerge.
  • Ch4 Website Links with Audio

    Ch4 Website Links with Audio

    Chapter 4 – Website links with audio British Isles England o RP – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-63 (female, 1954, white, Surrey (and abroad)) o South-West England – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-70 (female, 21, 1986, white, Torquay (Devon)) o South-East – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-91 (female, 46, 1966, white, Southampton (Hampshire) and USA) o London – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-62 (female, 21, 1985, white and Sri Lankan, South Norwood (South-East London)) o East – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-47 (male, 22, 1980, white, Cambridge) o East Midlands – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-66 (male, 40s, 1962, white, Gainsborough (Lincolnshire) and Yorkshire) o West Midlands – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-53 (female, 56, 1947, white, Gaydon (Warwickshire)) o Yorkshire and Humber – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-83 (male, 27, 1982, white, Skipton (North Yorkshire)) o North-West – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-44 (female, 31, 1970, white, Kirkdale (Liverpool) and Manchester) o North-East – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-13 (female, 43, 1957, white, Newcastle (Tyne and Wear)) (only one for comma gets a cure) o North-East – www.dialectsarchive.com/england-26 (female, 19, 1980, white, Gateshead (Tyne and Wear)) Wales o www.dialectsarchive.com/wales-6 (female, 20, 1989, Caucasian, Hirwaun and Carmarthen) Scotland o www.dialectsarchive.com/scotland-12 (male, 22, 1980, Caucasian, New Galloway and Edinburgh) Northern Ireland o www.dialectsarchive.com/northern-ireland-3 (female, 20s, Irish/Caucasian, Belfast) Republic of Ireland
  • Placenaming on Cape Breton Island 381 a Different View from The

    Placenaming on Cape Breton Island 381 a Different View from The

    Placenaming on Cape Breton Island A different view from the sea: placenaming on Cape Breton Island William Davey Cape Breton University Sydney NS Canada [email protected] ABSTRACT : George Story’s paper A view from the sea: Newfoundland place-naming suggests that there are other, complementary methods of collection and analysis than those used by his colleague E. R. Seary. Story examines the wealth of material found in travel accounts and the knowledge of fishers. This paper takes a different view from the sea as it considers the development of Cape Breton placenames using cartographic evidence from several influential historic maps from 1632 to 1878. The paper’s focus is on the shift names that were first given to water and coastal features and later shifted to designate settlements. As the seasonal fishing stations became permanent settlements, these new communities retained the names originally given to water and coastal features, so, for example, Glace Bay names a town and bay. By the 1870s, shift names account for a little more than 80% of the community names recorded on the Cape Breton county maps in the Atlas of the Maritime Provinces . Other patterns of naming also reflect a view from the sea. Landmarks and boundary markers appear on early maps and are consistently repeated, and perimeter naming occurs along the seacoasts, lakes, and rivers. This view from the sea is a distinctive quality of the island’s names. Keywords: Canada, Cape Breton, historical cartography, island toponymy, placenames © 2016 – Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Introduction George Story’s paper The view from the sea: Newfoundland place-naming “suggests other complementary methods of collection and analysis” (1990, p.
  • 16 Unit Multi-Family Investment Property

    16 Unit Multi-Family Investment Property

    16 UNIT MULTI-FAMILY INVESTMENT PROPERTY 221-251 WEST AVENUE, GLACE BAY, NS INFORMATION MEMORANDUM MITCH O'NEILL AARON FERGUSON Sales and Leasing Representative Sales and Leasing Representative 902 442 8718 902 442 8707 [email protected] [email protected] 221-251 WEST AVENUE 2 | 221-251 WEST AVENUE, GLACE BAY, NS TABLE OF CONTENTS PROPERTY DESCRIPTION 6 > Salient Facts > Location Overview DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL 8 > Current Zoning MARKET OVERVIEW 11 > Location Review > Amenities Map FINANCIAL INFORMATION 16 > Rent Roll > Income Statement 221-251 WEST AVENUE, GLACE BAY, NS | 3 4 | 221-251 WEST AVENUE, GLACE BAY, NS PROPERTY DESCRIPTION 221-251 WEST AVENUE, GLACE BAY, NS | 5 PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION 221-251 West Avenue is located in Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The New Aberdeen Garden Townhouses consist of two rows of eight (8) two bedroom apartment units. Each unit contain living room, kitchen, two bedrooms, 3 and 4 piece washrooms. This 16 unit multi-family building was built in 2011 and is on a quiet corner in a mixed use neighbourhood of single family houses and low rise buildings PROPERTY ADDRESS PID 21-251 West Avenue, Glace Bay, NS 15680655 TOTAL LAND AREA HEAT 3.7 Acres Electric radiant in-floor heat BUILDING(S) GROSS FLOOR AREA 14,800 SF ELECTRIC 400 Amp, main service NUMBER OF UNITS (2) 125 Amp panels per unit (16) Two Bedroom WINDOWS YEAR BUILT Vinyl frame, double glaze 2011 NO. OF FLOORS CONSTRUCTION Single Storey Wood frame TAX ASSESSMENT (2020) PARKING $1,099,700 Gravel lot ASKING PRICE ZONING $2,050,000
  • Nova Scotia Highlands

    Nova Scotia Highlands

    Selecting Plants for Pollinators A Guide for Gardeners, Farmers, and Land Managers In the Nova Scotia Highlands Sydney Glace Bay Antigonish Table of CONTENTS Why Support Pollinators? 4 Getting Started 5 Nova Scotia Highlands 6 Meet the Pollinators 8 Plant Traits 10 Developing Plantings 12 Farms 13 Public Lands 14 Home Landscapes 15 Plants That Attract Pollinators 16 Habitat hints 20 Habitat and Nesting requirements 21 This is one of several guides for S.H.A.R.E. 22 different regions of North America. We welcome your feedback to assist us in making the future guides Checklist 22 useful. Please contact us at [email protected] Resources and Feedback 23 2 Selecting Plants for Pollinators Selecting Plants for Pollinators A Guide for Gardeners, Farmers, and Land Managers In the Nova Scotia Highlands Sydney Glace Bay Antigonish A NAPPC and Pollinator Partnership Canada™ Publication Nova Scotia Highlands 3 Why support pollinators? IN THEIR 1996 BOOK, THE FORGOttEN POLLINATORS, Buchmann and Nabhan estimated that animal pollinators are needed for the reproduction “Flowering plants of 90% of flowering plants and one third of human food crops. Each of us depends on these industrious pollinators in a practical way to provide us across wild, with the wide range of foods we eat. In addition, pollinators are part of the intricate web that supports the biological diversity in natural ecosystems that helps sustain our quality of life. farmed and even Abundant and healthy populations of pollinators can improve fruit set and quality, and increase fruit size. In farming situations this increases urban landscapes production per hectare.
  • Local Government in the Cape Breton Coal Towns, 1917-1926*

    Local Government in the Cape Breton Coal Towns, 1917-1926*

    Company Town/Labour Town: Local Government in the Cape Breton Coal Towns, 1917-1926* by David FRANK** In the early years of the twentieth century the northeast coast of Cape Breton Island was a booming industrial frontier. The coal and steel in­ dustries of this district played a large part in the Canadian economy, and in Cape Breton County they created the most dynamic industrial com­ munity in the Maritime Provinces. Although the roots of industry reached back to the 1820s, unprecedented growth took place from the 1890s to the 1910s. The population of the coal district more than tripled and by 1921 included more than 40,000 people. The newly-arrived Dominion Coal and Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Companies built steel plants, opened collieries, created new settlements and expanded old ones. 1 The influence of the coal companies on the life of the coal industry was pervasive. It was often echoed in local place-names. Communities such as Dominion and Dominion No. 6 were named for the collieries of the Dominion Coal Company. In New Waterford streets were named in honour of company directors J. H. Plummer, Sir Henry Pellatt and E. R. Wood. Most importantly, the coal companies enjoyed great economic power in the mining district. As the only important employers in the coal towns, they dominated the local labour market. In Glace Bay in 1930 the Dominion Coal Company employed two-thirds of the male work force. Furthermore, as the owners of company stores and company houses, the coal companies were also powerful merchants and landlords.
  • Y..., N .S<O<Io the Story of Wally Byam'$ Caravan to Canada During July and August of 11155 by Mabel Stadtler

    Y..., N .S<O<Io the Story of Wally Byam'$ Caravan to Canada During July and August of 11155 by Mabel Stadtler

    no ea....... 0<\ d>o ...... of J- M_ K_ •• y..........., N_. S<o<io ,.CI AGM'" that old familiar call The story of Wally Byam'$ Ocame over the bun horn ­ "Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Meeting Time!" Another Wally Byam Car­ Caravan to Canada during nan was gathering, this time for a tour of Eastern Canada. Nearly 100 traiief'S took over the July and August of 11155 City Park, on the shores of St. Mar)"lI Ri~<f!r below the SoIuit Ste_ Marie Locks, to make their joint exodU5 <n-er the Canadian border ~'ia the ferry boau on JUDe 3Oth_ Many arrived ,..,..-e,.,.i U)"lI early by Mabel Stadtler and former Carav~f'S were gi'-en a WlU'tD ..~loon>e_ N~soon ~ integrated and joined the merry throng in aU aocti,·ities. Upon arrivai f!lIoCh t....uer fami­ ly ,..... properly registered, gi"en name plates and. If they did not already have a number from one of the fonner caravans. was as­ signed one by the very busy of­ ficial Secretary Helen Byam Sehwambom. The numbe,." cur­ rently being assigned ran well in­ to the five hundred and thirties. Wally Byam Caravans are certain­ i)' becoming an institution for traveling tJ'ailerisu. Each trip mak"" them a more c10llely knit unit. and, even though all cannot join every planned caravan. many return for the third. fourth and 3. T ....iler Topiet )Iapzine 1955 CARAVAN even fifth time, This particular up and get going. Those who b,., overnight stQP Qn the grounds of group represented just half of our habit like to sleep late are ready the Chippewa Barracks at North forty_eight states and only one to leave at about nine or ten Bay.
  • The Old Train Station News

    The Old Train Station News

    The Old Train Station News Newsletter #57 November 2013 The shorter, darker and colder days of November are great for cozying up with a book or a project and perfect for delving into some research. Last month the museum was the recipient of a fine collection of new material, compliments of David MacDonald of Bayfield. This treasure trove of memorabilia sheds some light on the life and times of David’s granduncle, Father Leo B. Sears – student, soldier, educator and priest. Photos and papers document his service overseas, his years at Oxford, his seminary training and ordination in Rome, his subsequent return to Antigonish and a teaching career at St. F. X., and, finally, his twenty-five year vocation as parish priest in industrial Cape Breton. A collection of correspondence indicates that Leo had many great friends and that he was well regarded – but one particular piece of communication piqued my curiosity. A letter dated 1984 and written by a certain J. F. Bates of Glace Bay reads: “Was surprised to hear that someone had contacted you re: a possible reunion of the St. F. X. Unit. How ridiculous I say.” Apparently, J. F. Bates and Leo Sears had both served with the St. F. X. Hospital Unit during World War I – but why would a reunion be so absurd? This calls for a bit of an investigation. First of all, who was this outspoken J. F. Bates? Assuming that he and Leo Sears were university classmates, we searched old editions of The Xaverian for a bit of information and , sure enough, the May 1921 edition reveals a graduation photo and some notes that indicate that “Fabe” or “Fabie”, as he was known on campus, came to St.
  • Louisbourg, Nova Scotia Retail Market Assessment

    Louisbourg, Nova Scotia Retail Market Assessment

    vv Louisbourg, Nova Scotia Retail Market Assessment Cape Breton Regional Municipality May 2021 Louisbourg Retail Market Assessment This document serves as a companion document to the Retail Market Analysis for the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Prepared by FBM for: Louisbourg, Nova Scotia Retail Market Assessment (May 2021) Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Tourism Overview 2 3 Trade Area Profile 3 4 Retail Spending Summary 5 5 Retail Inventory Summary 7 6 Retail Vacancy & Opportunity Buildings 11 7 Retail Demand Summary 12 8 Summary & Key Findings 14 Louisbourg, Nova Scotia Retail Market Assessment (May 2021) The Past is Present Electric vehicle charging stations at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, 2021 1 INTRODUCTION Fowler Bauld & Mitchell Ltd. (“FBM”) was commissioned by the Cape Breton Partnership and Develop Nova Scotia to prepare a Retail Market Assessment for the town of Louisbourg. The study was carried out over the period of January to March 2021, with on-the-ground fieldwork conducted in late February 2021 and a final report delivered in May 2021. The objective of this study is to quantify and document the resident and visitor retail markets and estimate the potential retail opportunity in the community for attracting and retaining spending and businesses. Retail spending and inventory, was estimated to identify gaps in the current provision of shops and services to the approximate year 2029. Primary reference data for this report was obtained from Manifold Data Mining Inc, Develop Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Partnership and FBM. Additional statistical information for this study was kindly provided by National Parks Canada specific to the Fortress of Louisbourg’s past five year visitor history, including retail and food & beverage revenues.
  • Glace Bay / Lingan Wind Power Project Archaeological Screening Cape Breton Regional Municipality

    Glace Bay / Lingan Wind Power Project Archaeological Screening Cape Breton Regional Municipality

    CAPE BRETON POWER LIMITED GLACE BAY / LINGAN WIND POWER PROJECT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCREENING CAPE BRETON REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCREENING REPORT Submitted to: Cape Breton Power Limited and the Special Places Program - Heritage Division Prepared by: Cultural Resource Management Group Limited 6040 Almon Street Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 1T8 Consulting Archaeologist: W. Bruce Stewart Report Preparation: Mike Sanders & W. Bruce Stewart Heritage Research Permit Number A2005NS76 CRM Group Project Number: 2005-0014 OCTOBER 2005 Glace Bay / Lingan Wind Power Project Cape Breton Power Limited Archaeological Screening TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.0 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 1 2.0 STUDY AREA ............................................................................................................. 2 3.0 METHODOLOGY ....................................................................................................... 7 4.0 RESULTS ..................................................................................................................... 8 4.1 Background Research ........................................................................................8 4.2 Field Investigations..........................................................................................10 5.0 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................................... 17 6.0 REFERENCES CITED..............................................................................................
  • Community Profile

    Community Profile

    COMMUNITY PROFILE The community of Glace Bay can be found hugging the eastern coastline of Cape Breton Island. The island is located on the north eastern tip of Nova Scotia and joined to the mainland by a rock-filled causeway. Alexander Graham Bell, who spent many years living in Cape Breton, once said, " I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton out rivals them all." Bell's sentiment has recently been echoed by a number of travel writers who have extolled Cape Breton not only for its unsurpassed physical beauty but also for the friendliness and generosity of its people. Travel and Leisure Magazine has ranked Cape Breton as the number one (1) island to visit in the continental US and Canada. National Geographic has described Cape Breton as "the most scenic island in the world" and has called it one of the "50 places of a lifetime" to visit. During the 2016 American election campaign the island garnered worldwide attention when a local radio DJ's tongue-in- cheek website suggested Cape Breton as a place for Americans to move if Trump becomes President. The so-called "Trump Bump" was a boom for local tourism. Glace Bay was incorporated as a town in 1901. In 1995, its municipal government was dissolved and Glace Bay joined six (6) other municipalities and the County of Cape Breton to form a larger municipal unit known as the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM). The CBRM covers 2,470 square kilometers and is home to approximately 94,000 residents.