Engineered consent: The relocation of Black Point, a small Gaelic fishing community in Northern Cape Breton Island.

• Main Author: Cox, Lorraine Vitale.
• Other Authors: Ph.D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Dalhousie University 2014
• Subjects: History; Canadian; Sociology; Social Structure and Development; Urban and Regional Planning; Black Point; Breton Island; Canada
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55470

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 r...