Cape Breton's Magazine

Pioneer Sunday. And we could all gather there, of all religious denominations, and have a service for the pioneers--for the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful people that came and settled this land. The people that we owe everything to. Even the breath that's in our body. Now, that's what I told them that Sunday I spoke to them there in Cape North.... That's the first and only time I was ever in the pulpit in a church and spoke. But I spoke there, and that's what I told them. I said, "Look. We look around us. Every? thing we see, and everything we have, and everything we hold dear--even to the breath in our body--we owe it to those people. They came here with nothing. They cleared the land. And they raised their families. They brought their children in the world here. They tilled the soil. They went to the forest and they dragged out material to build their habitations. Everything." I said, "Every rock pile that you see throughout the country. They built their own tombstones. They built their own memorials. Every one of them." I was in North Bay, at the Legion Hall. And I said, "Who is writing the history of M'cucnie' Motel and Dining Room (LICENSED) CHETICAMP 3-Diamond AAA Rating • Listed in 'rtere to Eat in Canad' Colour TVs • Phones Ideally located beside C. B. HIGHLANDS NATIONAL PARK hiking • fishing • golfing saltwater beach • more! P. O. Box 1 Cheticamp, N.S. BOE IHO (902) 224-2400 Est. 1938: McKeown Family MacKenzie's Mirror Refinishing Is your mirror streaked, eloudy or dull? Dont throw It out! Bring It to us. MacKenzie's SPECIALIZES In re-silvering antique mirrors. UJe Con Moke k Ok) Mrror look He M I Sell Neuu J" i' Mirrors J- ' Small Goss ' ' Repairs ' We Also 'Repalr/Reploc' Table Tops 724 Keltic Drive Sydney, Nova Scotia 567-2700 or 539-5464 'Custom Made ' Mirrors % LUindsNeld ' ' Replacement' Ingonish?" I said, "For goodness sake, there's so many wonderful people here. There's so many well-educated peo? ple ." And I said, "This place is alive with stories...." I said, "Think of Ingonish." I said, "Think of the his? tory that's here. The wonderful his? tory. All the com? panies that were here, buying had? dock. All the ves? sels that were built here--big vessels, too. All the fishermen that were here. All the people that were in storms, and some of them drowned and every? thing, from here. There's fires. The fires through the village. The heartaches, the heartbreaks." And I said, "Who is there to write about it? Where do you find it? No place." I said, "Where do you turn to find about the wonderful people that live in this community? The old ladies that got up at 12 o'clock in the night and tied a shawl around their head in a snowstorm and laced on a pair of snow- shoes and travelled 2 or 3 miles to help another woman that was bringing a child into the world." Where do you get that kind of stuff? You don't get it. You can't find it. Those are the people that made his- We're proud to be Cape Breton Home Hardware dealers... McKinnon Home Hardware Building Centre Port Hawkesbury 625-0674 Alex McKinnon • MacRae Home Hardware * North Sydney 794-4711 Shirley & Carl MacRae • Baddeck Home Hardware Baddeck 295-2170 Bill Turner • Wilson's Home Hardware Sydney 562-6020 Ken Wilson • Harbax Hardware Glace Bay 849-3109 Fred Whyte & Jamie Whyte • Manufactured in Home Hardware's own brand-new computerized paint factory • BEAUTI-TONE PAINT & STAIN GUARANTEED #1 QUALITY • EVERY HOME HARDWARE STORE IS OWNED BY YOUR NEIGHBOUR • building centre IN CAPE BRETON