| Summary: | This work is the story of the birth, the life and the death of Black Point, a small Gaelic fishing community in Northern Cape Breton Island. The community of Black Point was born in the 1860's when the MacKinnon family emigrated to Northern Cape Breton and it died about 100 years later as the result of a relocation project implemented by the provincial government in 1968. For the last few hundred years relocation projects have been associated with progress, improvement and development. The Black Point relocation was one aspect of a larger development process that continues to transform the area. This process entails the rationalization of both its natural and human resources, although what is rational from the state perspective is often quite irrational from the community and family perspective. This work is a study of how some people have resisted the process and persisted in maintaining their own ground, which are the grounds of their family and community culture. It is an inquiry into how these grounds are eroded and how people are persuaded to accept the terms of a development process that they do not necessarily own. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1997.
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