Behind Work Through Time
Heritage is much more than a hobby or a pastime. We look to our collective past to engage our imaginations, for understanding and meditation, as a source of pride and pleasure, for ideas on how to make our communities healthy and sustainable, to assess steps mistaken and to carve a path forward.
As we adapt to the demands of our electronic age, the digitization of historical materials, held by individuals and heritage networks across Cape Breton Island, becomes increasingly important. Work through Time: Cape Breton Stories of Land and Sea was borne out of a desire to showcase, through a digital medium, the rich cultural diversity of the working lives of Cape Bretoners to local, national and global audiences.
The stories and multimedia shared on this website are merely snapshots of the rich heritage we have inherited. To fully engage with our living past we still must go to those spaces which preserve it: our museums and historical societies, libraries and institutions, community centres and organizations; our elders, friends and neighbours, and conversations around the kitchen table.
It is our hope that this website will serve as a point of entry for students, teachers, lifelong learners, researchers and all Cape Bretoners to get out and discover all that our beautiful Island has to offer. We challenge our students and educators across Cape Breton and beyond our shores to learn more about settlement patterns, changes in governance, industry, cultural diversity, women’s roles in local economies, systems of exchange, colonialism, immigration and more.
Start a heritage garden, interview an elder in your community, browse local history books at your library, visit a museum – the possibilities are endless. We must make good use of the resources at hand to keep the lessons of the past at the forefront of the present. Critical reflections on the past will help to foster future generations of engaged leaders, educators and citizens.
Work Through Time Project Team
Erika Shea, Coordinator
Darlene Cameron, Coordinator
Christie Macneil, Researcher
Calum Ryan, Researcher
Robb Corbett, Web Design
Kristy Read, Graphic Design
Colleen MacLeod, Educational Consultant
Barbara Alice Campbell, Educational Consultant
Paul Vigneau, Technical Coordinator
Ardelle Reynolds, Communications Support
Bob Morgan, Site and Theme Introductions
Sandra Dunn, Proofreading
Karen Jeane Mills, Project Assistant
Effie Rankin, Gaelic Translation
Elizabeth Paul and Barbara Sylliboy, Mi’kmaq Translation
Murdena Marshall, Mi'kmaq Translation
Pierre Siguret, French Translation
JJ MacNeil, French Translation
Daniel Aucoin, French Narration
Ian MacNeil, English Narration
Elizabeth Paul, Mi’kmaq Narration
Effie Rankin, Gaelic Narration
Darren Andrews, Advisory Board
Sherry Finney, Advisory Board
Peyton Chisholm, Advisory Board
A note from our translators, Elizabeth Paul and Barbara Sylliboy:
Ketu' kinua'tekeyek ta'n tetuji wula'luksie'k wla kisiku'k, Dr. Granny, Margaret Johnson, Stan Johnson Sr., George Sylliboy, and Helen Sylliboy, wjit teli-apoqnmuksiek kwilmekl klusuaqnn kewaskiwi'kikeyek. "We'kwi-wula'liek," Elizabethe Paul aq Barbara Sylliboy.
We would like to thank our elders, Dr. Granny, Margaret Johnson, Stan Johnson Sr., George Sylliboy, and Helen Sylliboy, for their advice and expertise in this translation project.
About C@P
The Community Access Program (C@P) is a Government of Canada initiative, administered by Industry Canada that aims to provide Canadians with affordable public access to the Internet and the skills they need to use it effectively. With the combined efforts of the federal, provincial and territorial governments, community groups, social agencies, libraries, schools, volunteer groups and the business community C@P helps Canadians, wherever they live, take advantage of emerging opportunities in the new global knowledge-based economy.
Work Through Time has been a joint undertaking of the C@P Society of Cape Breton County (www.capcbco.ca) and the Inverness County C@P Network Society (www.iccns.ca)
Copyright: All content on this site is protected by copyright. Any reproduction of site content is prohibited without the express permission of the C@P Society of Cape Breton County. For more information on copyright and permission to reproduce site materials, please contact:
coordinator[at]capcbco.ca
© C@P Society of Cape Breton County, 2009
