4 - Gaelic and Local History Collections

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The library's digital collections of Gaelic works and local history material.

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  • Digitized editions of the Scottish Gaelic newspaper "Am Bràighe" ("The Higher Ground"). The newspaper was founded in Mabou, Cape Breton, and ran from 1993 to 2003.
  • The Cape Breton Folklore Project includes over 2000 folklore items, 1000 songs, and 1000 stories collected by Dr. John Shaw between 1977 and 1982 to record the Gaelic Folklore of Cape Breton. Gaelstream is the digital audio collection of this project.
  • The Guysborough Journal is a weekly newspaper published since June 2, 1994 by Addington Publishers, Goshen, Nova Scotia.
  • These letters offer historical evidence about immigration from Scotland to Nova Scotia in the early nineteenth century. They speak of economic challenges, familial ties, and daily life in rural Nova Scotia. Digitization by Sheldon MacDonald; digital deposit by Sam Read.
  • Digitized transcripts of the 1995-1996 inquiry into the cause of the May 9, 1992 explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, that killed 26 miners.