Page 72 - Availible now from Breton Books" Flora McPherson's Cape Breton Classic: Watchman Against the World The Remarkable Journey of Norman MacLeod & His People From Scotland to Cape Breton Island to New Zealand

ISSUE : Issue 64

Published by Ronald Caplan on 1993/8/1

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