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The Gaels of Cape Breton

Accession number: 
1980.0085
Alternate Titles: 
Les Gaëls du Cap-Breton
French version
Production Years: 
1946

Languages:

Film Properties: 
Length (feet): 
400 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
12
Holding Institutions: 

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario: 16mm.

Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, VHS, Digibeta.
"Describes the life of the descendents of the Scottish immigrants who settled in the highlands of Cape Breton. Shows traditional way of life and how the Gaelic College helps keep alive their culture. "

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta: 16mm.
"In Cape Breton the descendants of Highland Scottish settlers have preserved their Gaelic tongue, occupational skills, and traditions of piety, hospitality and hard work. The film mirrors their way of life, and its setting in the green hills and rushing streams of Cape Breton."
From the Catalogue of 16mm Educational Motion Pictures. Published by the Educational Media Division, Department of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1967.

Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management
"a look at the history of the Scots and the Gaelic culture on Cape Breton Island."

Nova Scotia Department of Education, Media Services

Bibliography: 

University of Waterloo Audiovisual Services Catalog.
"This film shows Scottish settlers on the highlands of Cape Breton and their similarities with the Gaels in the highlands across the sea."

"Gaels of Cape Breton, The," Canadian Travel Film Library, 16mm Motion Picture Films (Chicago/New York: 1954), 4.
"In Cape Breton the descendents of Highland Scottish settlers have preserved their Gaelic tongue, occupational skills, and traditions of piety, hospitality and hard work. This film mirrors their way of life, and its setting in the green hills and rushing streams of Cape Breton."