Cape Breton's Magazine

There was only a small crowd came to the parade. And that's when my sister told them she could shoot them all with one bullet. And she wouldn't let them inside. We had a fence around the grave. She wouldn't unlock the gate and let them in. (Was this at your father's funeral, or a few years later?) That was a few years later at the parade. And she wouldn't let them in. (How many years after your fa? ther's death was that, would you say?) Oh, Whale Cruises CHETICAMP Scenic 3-Hour Boat Tours * June to October 3 Times a Day in July & August Contact Capt. _ Bill Crawford, _ Cheticamp Boat Tours, Box 10, Grand Etang, Nova Scotia B0E1L0 (902)224-3376 that wasn't too darn many years--only 3 or 4 years, that they started to have pa? rades. Now, it's a big day. (Was there a Davis Day the first year after your father had been killed?) No, there wasn't. It must have been about 3 years af? ter that that they started in holding that day. And then they started parading, and they gave the miners a holiday for that full day. And they still do--they still get that full day. They don't have to work. And they're paid for that day. But I went down to one here 3 years ago. It was in Dominion. And it was a big crowd--quite a crowd there. So it improved a lot after my brother (Bob) came home from the States. He was the one that used to keep after Gerry Marsh (former mayor of New Waterford, to keep up interest in re? membering the day William Davis died). SUMMERTIME PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY presents FEATURING: Richard Burke Steve Gaetz Berkley Lamey Fred Lavery Bette MacDonald Max MacDonald Doris Mason Maynard Morrison Tara Lynn Touesnard DIRECTOR: Ed Macdonald MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Leon Dubinsky '92' ANEW MUSIC & COMEDY SHOW June 2, 3 Port Hawltesbury June 4,5,6 Antigonish June 7, 8 Pictou Cape Breton Island June 10-15 Rebecca Cohn Halifax Supported by Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation June 16 Truro June 18,19,20 Centre 200 Sydney TICKETS ON SALE AT EACH VENUE (Did your family, every year after your father passed away, did your family have a private ceremony?) No. But there'd be lots of even? ings in the winter that we'd be sitting around and my mother would be telling us things, about the parade and about the shooting and everything. (Do you remember what your mum told you?) No, it's pret? ty hard--you know, where I read all those papers--she told us just about everything that was in the papers. So it would be pretty hard to remember all of it. (Edith, did you expect that you'd marry a miner?) No, that wasn't my dish at all. I figured I'm moving away, and I'd meet somebody else up there.... I wasn't fussy about marrying any Cape Bretoners. But all the other sisters, like sister Jean, her husband was in the Navy. Well then, when he came out of the Navy, he went to the mines. Sister Alma's husband, he was a miner. He used to travel first with the circus, the animal circus. Come back home, and he had a job in the mines, and he went to work in the mines when they were married. BATTERED WOMEN AND YOUR CHILDREN If you need help: 539-2945 TRANSITION HOUSE