07b - The Chevalier de Johnstone: From Culloden to Cape Breton

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The Lost World of Cape Breton Island

J.M., J.R. Bourgeois

16 episodes

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The forgotten stories of early 18th century Cape Breton Island. It’s the aim of this project to reconstruct the lives of people long gone, walk roads that no longer exist, and retell events from Cape Breton’s history through the documentation left behind by those who saw it for themselves.

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07b - The Chevalier de Johnstone: From Culloden to Cape Breton

The Lost World of Cape Breton Island

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07b - The Chevalier de Johnstone: From Culloden to Cape Breton

CORRECTION - At 8:42, the names should read (left to right) Alex Storm, David MacEachern and Harvey MacLeod. Thanks to Eilieen Burke for pointing this out to us!Travel back in time to the year 1753 and see Cape Breton Island through the eyes of Scottish exile the Chevalier de Johnstone. We will also bridge two very different eras in Cape Breton's past - the French colonial period of the early 18th century, and the era of Scottish migration that took place in the 19th century.SHOW NOTES - MUSICAL CREDITS: -- chtidrummer - "La diane et le rigodon (le reveil au bivouac napoleon)" • La diane et le rigodon(le reveil au b... -- Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons-Summer -- Michael Schaeffer - French Baroque Lute Music-- Barde - Whelan’s Jig, the Swallow’s Tail, Coleman’s Cross -- Hopkinson Smith - J.H. Kapsberger Libro Primo d’Intavolatura di Lauto (First Book of Lute Tablature) Roma, 1611SOURCES:1. Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745 and 1746 - https://archive.org/details/memoirsof...2. The Campaign of Louisbourg 1750 - ’58 - https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm....3. Du Boscq de Beaumont, G. (1899). Les derniers jours de l’Acadie, 1748-1758, p. 65. Paris : E. Lechevalier4. T. A. Crowley, “JOHNSTONE, JAMES, Chevalier de Johnstone,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed March 3, 2024, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnst....