Stronger than steel: class and commemoration in postindustrial Nova Scotia
31 January 2017 – Lachlan MacKinnon
The Public Historian, deindustrialization, TPH Deindustialization issue, TPH 39.4, industrial heritage
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of posts on deindustrialization and industrial heritage commissioned by The Public Historian, expanding the conversation begun with the November 2017 special issue on the topic.
In the late nineteenth century, Cape Breton, the island on Canada’s east coast at the northern tip of the province of Nova Scotia, was rich in coal and ripe for resource extraction. Read More