Cape Breton Highlander
About This Site
The Cape Breton Highlander was was a weekly newspaper—the largest east of Montreal—published in Sydney, Nova Scotia from 1963 to 1976. Its lifespan coincided with a period in island history that was fascinating industrially, municipally, culturally and demographically. News was being made here and the Highlander's often controversial coverage of it found an engaged (and occasionally enraged) audience.
The Highlander's take on those years has been a revelation to those who've been able to access it but that access has been limited: the complete archive is available on microfilm at Cape Breton University's Beaton Institute and at the Provincial Archives, but not online, to date.
Hopefully one day a student or other serious researcher will find this newspaper collection interesting as a publication that was ahead of its time and wish to study the community and politics of the times. It was a good working class publication that addressed themes that are still relevant and urgent today.
The Highlander's take on those years has been a revelation to those who've been able to access it but that access has been limited: the complete archive is available on microfilm at Cape Breton University's Beaton Institute and at the Provincial Archives, but not online, to date.
Hopefully one day a student or other serious researcher will find this newspaper collection interesting as a publication that was ahead of its time and wish to study the community and politics of the times. It was a good working class publication that addressed themes that are still relevant and urgent today.