Wednesday Evening Presentation Series

The 2010 season of The Museum’s Wednesday evening series, “People, Places, and Events in the North Highlands,” will run weekly from July through Spetember.. Last season, twenty experts, mostly from the local community, shared their experiences and knowledge on a wide variety of topics including “Lighthouse Keeping on Saint Paul Island,” “The Cape Breton Fur industry,” “Building and Sailing the Sloop Double Crow,” and “Cape Breton Swordfishing.”

Wednesday evening programs are held in the Museum’s Culture Centre, the former United Church building in Cape North, next door to the museum.

Programs begin with a musical welcome at 7 p.m.; presentations begin at 7:30, and last an hour or a little longer. Following each presentation, light refreshments are served (free of charge.)

Admission is $5; all fees will be applied to refurbish and renovate the Culture Centre for future programs.

Everyone is welcome.

Our 2010 lineup:
June 30th: "St Paul Island, the graveyard of the gulf" Kelly Fitzgerald, Fisherman,

July 7th: "The Geology of the North Highlands, there's gold in the hills and coal under the sea"

July 14th: "Aspy Bay fishery in Cape Breton from the 16th Century to present" Ken Donovan, Parks Canada Historian

July 21st: Music Concert

July 28th: "Early days of agriculture in the highlands" Margarit Gahlinger, researcher

August 4th: "Cape Breton Magazine-Down North" Ron Caplin, historian, publisher

August 11th: "Lighthouses of Cape North" Gerry O'Neill, lighthouse keeper

August 18th: Music Concert

August 25th: "The Atlantic Sea Turtle" Bert Fricker and Mike James

September 1st: "Victoria County-some thoughts on the future" Bruce Morrison, Warden, Victoria County

September 8th: no presentation

September 15th: "Moose in the Highlands" Joe Buchanan, Guide, hunter and woodsman