Travel back in time to the year 1753 and see Cape Breton Island through the eyes of Scottish exile the Chevalier de Johnstone. We will also bridge two very different eras in Cape Breton’s past – the French colonial period of the early 18th century, and the era of Scottish migration that took place in the 19th century.
SHOW NOTES –
MUSIC:
Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons-Summer
Michael Schaeffer – French Baroque Lute Music
Barde – Whelan’s Jig, the Swallow’s Tail, Coleman’s Cross
Hopkinson Smith – J.H. Kapsberger Libro Primo d’Intavolatura di Lauto (First Book of Lute Tablature) Roma, 1611
1. Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745 and 1746 – https://archive.org/details/memoirsofrebelli00johnrich/page/n7/mode/2up
2. The Campaign of Louisbourg 1750 – ’58 – https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.23016/5
3. Du Boscq de Beaumont, G. (1899). Les derniers jours de l’Acadie, 1748-1758, p. 65. Paris : E. Lechevalier
4. T. A. Crowley, “JOHNSTONE, JAMES, Chevalier de Johnstone,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed March 3, 2024, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnstone_james_4E.html.
The Lost World of Cape Breton Island 