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Jean Mills’ Confectionary Store, Fifth St. New Aberdeen, Glace Bay, Cape Breton

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                                                               Jean Mills c.1950’s

                                                            

                                                             Jean Mills Store c.1960’s

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Nicknames

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What’s in a name? A story if you’re from Cape Breton. Once given- forever branded, the nickname on the Island went with you to the grave. Sometimes descriptive, sometimes based upon an incident, sometimes accurate and sometimes bordering upon the cruel.
I remember driving through New Waterford with a buddy once and seeing a man with a very crooked spine. His whole upper torso was leaning heavily to the left. I asked my buddy who he was and the answer I got back was, “ Oh, that’s Ten-To-Seven!”
Albert MacDonald from New Waterford gave us an exhaustive list of nicknames from New Waterford years ago. I thought I might reprint them here to see if anyone remembers these people and perhaps the stories behind the names. Or perhaps nicknames from your home village or town.
Abbie Stepaniak

Ace MacDonald
Accident Dan MacDonald
Aches & Pains MacDonald
Airdale MacKinnon
Air Ship Dan MacEachern
Aluminum Leg Durdle
Allen the Gold MacDonald
Alley Oop Martell
Andy Capp Nicholson
Anchor Back MacLean
Angie Bee MacDonald
Antwan MacDonald
Antigonish Jim Gillis
Army Chaisson
Ash Pile Dougall
Arab Andrews
Augie Wilcox
Automobile Joe ?
Axe Lamey
Baa O’Handley
Babbs McCarthy
Babe MacLeod
Baby Angus MacDonald
Bacon MacPherson
Backie Hart MacNeil
Back Shift MacDonald
Badger Cashin
Baggie ?
Bait Martell
Baldy Leadbetter
Baloney MacKenzie
Bam Hall
Bandy Legs Poirier
Banjo Rossini
Banjo Eyes McLeod
Banister Head MacDonald
Bantam Cassidy
Bananas Bezanson
Bang Bang Gouthro
Barber MacDonald
Barch MacPherson
Bar Fly MacDougall
Bar Rag Ryan
Baseball Hughie Aucoin
Bat Cameron
Bateau Boudreau
Beans Aucoin
Beany McLean
Bear MacEachern
Beaver Liva
Beaver Oil Hogan
Bede MacKinnon
Bee Brake
BeeBop Gregor
Beef MacLennan
Beefer MacLennan
Beep Beep Odo
Beer MacKinnon
Beer Bottle MacDonald
Beezer Gillis
Beno Walzak
Benock Pyle
Benocco Venetti
Beppins Nicholson
Beppo Loro
Bevis MacLeod
Bible Back McIsaac
Bibbler MacDonald
Bickie MacKinnon
Biff MacPherson
Big Bird Lalo
Big Jewel Deshayes
Big Frost Cooke
Billy Goat Milley
Bilco MacEachern
Bim McKinnon
Biney McKinnon
Bingo Pasher
Binky Walker
Bin Bin Cormier
Bird MacNeil
Bird Dog MacDonald
Biso Del Barbra
Biscuits McNeil
Bitser MacDonald
Black Crow Burke
Black Duck Copan
Black Frank Ostroski
Black Mick McDonald
Black Nettis Marsh
Black Jack MacNeil
Blackie Fraser
Blazer MacDonald
Blondie Stephenson
Block Nearing
Blind Roddie MacDonald
Blinky Rockwell
Blue Birds MacLellan
Blue Eyes Aucoin
Blue Store MacLeod
Bo Kavanaugh
Boar MacKinnon
Bobba Hall
Bog Mouth McKenzie
Bogie Harper
Bogus Burke
Boiney ?
Boisdale MacMullin
Boisey Hogan
Bommie Fortune
Bones Chopek
Bonik McLean
Boo MacKinnon
Boo Boos Morrison
Boots Boutilier
Boobie Podurski
Bozzo Steel
Boozer Gillis
Bookie Sampson
Bore Cake MacQuarrie
Bosh MacIsaac
Botcho Brown
Bottle Horvath
Bougie Nemis
Bowling Alley Smith
Buckles Marketjohn
Bucket O’Connell
Buddy Bars Tighe
Buffo Podurski
Bugs Burke
Bugs Bunny Campbell
Bull Marsh
Buller MacKenzie
Bull Dog Lewis
Bull Neck Chiasson
Bull Ox MacIsaac
Bull Winkle MacKinnon
Bullet Milley
Bully MacDonald
Bumper Marsh
Bun Rush Finlayson
Bunga Murray
Bunk Corbett
Bunker Henry
Bunky LeForte
Bunny Oliver
Bunny The Racer Currie
Buns Rich
Bunt J.J. Rich
Bunter Fraser
Bunty Dupre
Burnt Rory MacNeil
Buster Bates
Butch MacNeil
Butcher Boy MacDonald
Butts Burger
Butter Ball Darling
Butter Cups Cameron
Butter Milk MacDougall
Buttons Ryan
Buzzer Tighe
Buzzy Conners
Cabbage Head Corbett
Cabbage Grub MacKinnon
Cage MacDonald
Caledonia Lesoski
Calico MacNeil
Calf Eyes MacDonald
Camey Longphee
Capwire Fortune
Captain Martell
Cape North MacKinnon
Capt’n Crunch Ross
Carrots Carrigan
Carrot Top McKinnon
Cat Degobbi
Cave Man Young
Champ Hannigan
Chawaha Hart
Cheap Jack Ross
Chedda McLeod
Cheean Parresota
Cheeta MacDonald
Cherry Nose Chaisson
Chick Madden
Chicken Gillis
Chicken Ears Campbell
Chicken Little Romard
Chief Lewis
Chief Big Cloud MacLeod
Chilly MacDonald
Chin Marsh
Chink welton
Chipper McKinnon
Chippy Brown
Chiss Parresota
Chocolates Murray
Chockers Pembroke
Chops MacGean
Chop Chop Larade
Chrome Dome Harrison
Chrysler Bill MacLeod
Chubby Macdonald
Chummy Macdonald
Circus Horse Timmons
Cissy Stapleton
Clam Warden Young
Cloddy McKenzie
Clothes Prop Aucoin
Coach Peckham
Coal Macdonald
Coatsie ?
Cods Fraser
Colonel Watts
Commanda Penney
Compensation Dan Campbell
Conk Rigby
Cookie Nemis
Coonie Durham
Coppie Copan
Corn Longphee
Cotton Bonnar
Cow Dog McNeil
Crackers McCormick
Creepers MacDonald
Cronie ?
Crooked Line Bourgeois
Crooked Mouth Power
Crow MacLellan
Crowbar McNeil
Crut Cormier
Cub Hannigan
Cubbage Yhanchek
Cubsy Gillis
Cuddie McDonald
Cue Ball McKinnon
Cuffy McEachern
Cumcardi Desveaux
Cursin Dan McLeod
Curly McEachern
Cut Worm MacNeil
Dadda Mick Burns
Daish Burchell
Dagwood Wilson
Dally Stephenson
Dan Nooks MacPherson
Danny Dumps McLeod
Dansi Burns
Dancer McDonald
Dapper Petrie
Darling MacNeil
Day Day Burns
Deach Kennedy
Deacon McLeod
Dee Pee MacDonald
Deedie Sharpe
Deoats MacIsaac
Diamond Lil Stepaniak
Diapers Gillis
Dickum MacLeod
Didda Bum Burns
Diddles MacKinnon
Diddlets Petrie
Digger O’Handley
Dikey MacNeil
Dimmy Dogs MacNeil
Dingan MacDougall
Dingwall Fraser
Dinks Coady
Dinney Hinchey
Dippey Dog Churchill
Dip Stick Penny
Dit Fraser
Dirty Shirt MacEachern
Dog Doctor Johnny
Dittens MacLeod
Diz Ferguson
Dinny Tighe
Dobbin MacKinnon
Dough Boy MacLellan
Dock MacNeil
Dodo Akins
Doddie Blackwood
Doddley MacKinnon
Doink MacDonald
Dolly Sisters MacDonald
Donuts MacLellan
Dooley Medjuck
Dopey MacDonald
Dorks MacDonald
Dot MacKinnon
Doutter Gardiner
Dress Up MacDonald
Druggist Chaisson
Drunken Dunken MacDonald
Duck Manzine
Ducky MacLellan
Duco Hawley
Dud Prendergast
Duddles MacDonaell
Duffy Desveaux
Duffney Desveaux
Dugga MacNeil
Due Dye MacNeil
Due Drop MacLellan
Duke Welton
Dumditten Dittine
Dumbo Burns
Dunlap MacDonald
Dunner Sutherland
Dusty Martin
Duty Man MacDonald
Duz Smith
Eagle Beak Holum
Eagus Corbett
Ears Kavanaugh
Eckie MacDonald
Eel Poirier
Egg Head Lawson
Elmer Fudd Smith
Faa Faa MacLean
Fabby MacLeod
Faintin’ Lilly Hibbert
Fairy Cometta
Farmer MacNeil
Fats Schima
Fee Fee Ratchford
Feathers Wareham
Fearless Gillis
Fellas Vardi
Femmy Campbell
Fess Campbell
Fibber Roach
Field Mouse Desveaux
Fiddler MacDougall
Fiddle Feet Kearney
Fiddle Sticks Gillis
Fife Pheifer
Fikey MacNeil
Fingers MacNeil
Fitz Haro MacLellan
Fish Fraser
Flange Sharpe
Gabba Rupert
Gabber Roper
Gaga Timmons
Gale Hinchey
Gander Hines
Gar MacPhee
Gardi Campbell
Geekers MacLean
Gents Petrie
General Gillis
Ghost MacPhee
Gickee Nearing
Gillebec Gillis
Gill Dic MacDougall
Gin Pill MacEachern
Ginnie Stanford
Girlie MacNeil
Goat MacNeil
Godfather Basso
Goggles MacLeod
Goldie MacNeil
Good Lord Hogan
Goofus Gillis
Goofy Andrews
Googie Kalbhenn
Gookie MacDonald
Gooks Gaultwald

–>Hackie MacDonald
Hadden Pants Fortune
Hairless MacAskill
Half & Half MacNeil
Halo McEachern
Half Pint Morrison
Ham MacEachern
Ham Hawley
Hambone MacDonald
Hankey White
Handsome Jack MacDougall
Happy Jack Beckerton
Hard Stuff MacDonald
Hatchet Head Nemis
Hay Hook MacDonald
Hawk Edwards
Heaver Marsh
Heck MacNeil
Heckle Tatlock
Jeckle Tatlock
Henry The Hunk ?
Henny Wilson
Hennus Bresowar
Hibbler Kenneski
Hindu Kennedy
Hob Roach
Hawk Eyes Desveaux
Hog Marsh
Holy Annie ?
Holy John MacKinnon
Homer Brown
Hon MacNeil
Honalin White
Honey Nearing
Honey MacKinnon
Honey Man Kanne
Honest John Tighe
Hooge Young
Hoof MacNeil
Hook ?
Hooker Gillis
Hook Nose Boudreau
Hook Neck MacNeil
Hookey Dooks Cameron
Hoop Dalton
Hoosh MacNeil
Hopper MacIsaac
Hoppy Ryan
Horse Trader Blewer
Horse Nose MacKinnon
Horsey MacLeod
Hoss MacIsaac
Hossy MacDougall
Hotchy Manzine
Hot Dogs MacLean
Hot Shot Millar
Howdy Steiger
Hubba Tighe
Huff Fortune
Puff Fortune
Huleo Marsh
Hump Quigley
Hungo MacLellan
Hunka MacNeil
Hungry Joe Aucoin
Hughie Maggie Ellen MacIsaac
Icabod Petrie
Icka Buchanan
Ira Hayes Aucoin
Iron Jaws MacEachern
Iron Sides Colburn

–>Jack Hammer Connors
Jam Bottle MacEachern
Jappo Campbell
Jed Gillis
Jello MacNeil
Jelly Beans Mac Kinnon
Jeep Desveaux
Jetto Piovesan
Jigs Burchell
Jiggy Micholsky
Jockey Fraser
Johnny Jittery MacDonald
John Malcolm Peg MacDonald
Johnny Nineteen MacIntyre
Johnny Not Home MacPherson
Jolly Morrison
Jookie MacKinnon
Jopie Boutilier
Judique MacDonald
Jumbo Morrison
Jumpin Lucy Chaisson
Jungle Delaney
Jungle Mouth MacNeil
Juniper MacDonald
Kai MacNeil
Kangaroo MacDonald
Kayo Mullins
Key Hole Dupe
Keggie Cormier
King Fisher King
Kip Phillips
Kittens MacNeil
Koot Burke
Lackey MacIsaac
Laddie Micholsky
Lala Murray
Lamb Pendergast
Lame Hughie MacNeil
Lankey Sampson
Lash MacNeil
Lard Beaton
Leakey Sampson
Leakey Roof Rutledge
Lefty MacNeil
Leprechaun Doucette
Lestoil MacDonald
Lex MacDonald
Lexi McNeil
Libby LeBlanc
Lick Boudreau
Limp MacLean
Lingan MacNeil
Little Beaver Viva
Little Arrows Corbett
Little Giant Murray
Liver Lip Crombie
Liver Sampson
Liquor Store Jack Beaton
Lizzard MacNeil
Lonnie Nearing
Looley Gardiner
Loud Betty MacDonald
Looking Glass Joe LeBlanc
Louse Price
Loxy MacDonald
Loo Jack MacKinnon
Ludy Kalbhen
Lugs MacNeil
Lump Leudy
Lumber Dude Macdonald
Lunch Box Gillis
Lusty Horvath
Mabou MacDonald
Macey Morrison
Mache Hurley
Magarts McArthur
Magille Marketjohn
Makins Buffet
Mako Cathcart
Major Kristal
Mama MacLellan
March DeGobbi
Marble McNeil
Marti Graham
Mary Ann Scrubbin’ Brush McDonald
MawMaw McDonald
Max Petrie
Meat Head MacDonald
Melish Selvet
Mello Nearing
Mejuck MacLellan
Mickel Cameron
Mickey Mouse Blanchard
Midge O’Connor
Midi Poirier
Mighty Mouse Prior
Milk Bottle Aucoin
Milkey Foot Quigley
Minnow MacNeil
Minus Penny
Mira Dan MacDonald
Mitt Bennett
Moby Jobe
Mockey MacLellan
Moe Durdle
Mooey Symms
Mahagony Ears Petrie
Molasses Eyes Bougeons
Monk Maillet
Monkey Burns
Monkey Face Jardine
Moon Mullins
Mooney Fleming
Moose Gillis
Mor Beer MacDougall
Motor MacNeil
Motor Mouth Desveaux
Mouth Boudreau
Mouse Blanchard
Mountain Boy MacLeod
Mr. Big MacNeil
Mucker Out Cook
Muckey MacKinnon
Muck a Luck MacNeil
Mud MacDonald
Muggy MacLean
Mugsey MacDonald
Mully Head Graham
Mumbles White
Munick Bernick
Munzie Gillis
Murgie Campbell
Murdo MacLeod
Muskey Horvath
Muss Poirier
Mutt Wilson
Naebob MacNeil
Nails Springall
Nandy MacKinnon
Nanners Oliver
Neck Tie Brennan
Neil Ox MacDonald
Neil Gows MacDonald
Neeky Hookey Sampson
Netsie McNeil
New New Wareham
Neva Muir
Nibbs Bruchett
Nigger Poirier
Nimmy MacGillivary
Ninny Bosh Nearing
Nipper Oliver
Nits Peckham
Nobby Drover
Nope MacDougall
Nooch MacLeod
Noof Williams
Nooka Villa
Nookie Roach
Nookums McPherson
Nose MacNeil
Norton Sweeny
Nuby Desucane
Nummy MacEachern
Oil Can Phillips
Old Horse Gardiner
Old Grey Ratchford
Old Man Lewis
Ollie Wilson
Onions MacIsaac
Oopie MacDonald
Ooja Hurley
Ookie Usher
Ox Head MacSween
Paco Desveaux
Painter MacPherson
Pan Shovel Gillis
Pap Steiger
Patches Burns
Pay Day Petrie
Par Roll Aucoin
Peach Arseneault
Peachy Ruelland
Peanuts MacLean
Peanut Butter Lamey
Pecker MacPherson
Pee Wee McMaster
Peep Beezley
Peg Leg MacDonald
Pepper MacDonald
Perch Campbell
Pick Handle ?
Pickles Chaisson
Pie Eye MacDonald
Pie Face Quigley
Piggy Jones
Pine McNeil
Pinky Saule
Pink Panther Gouthro
Pink Whiskers Fraser
Piper Macleod
Pirate Lewis
Pit Horse MacDonald
Pit Socks Jennex
Pluck Gillis
Pluckme Joe Campbell
Pluto Roach
Polar ?
Polish McNeil
Poles Hurley
Pony Currie
Pooch Steele
Poodles Boudreau
Pool Room Cameron
Pookey Cormier
Pope MacNeil
Pop Bottle MacDonald
Pop Corn MacLean
Popeye Ruelland
Poronder Cormier
Porko Chaisson
Porky Saule
Porpoise George
Possum Pie Hibbert
Potato Nose MacDonald
Pow Wow Graham
Powder Puff Burns
Preacher MacDougall
Pretty Angus MacDonald
Proof Bates
Proud Dan MacNeil
Prunsie Gillis
Puddin MacDonald
Puddle Jumper Aucoin
Pull Through Penny
Punny MacLean
Punk White
Punkin MacKenzie
Puppet MacLeod
Push Desveaux
Pushers Saniga
Pussy MacDonald
Putt Campbell
Putter Zillman
Putt Putt Doyle
Quarter To Three MacKinnon
Quock Chaisson
Rabs Walzak
Rabbit Rich
Radar Murray
Radio Jim MacPherson
Rags MacDonald
Rain Man MacLellan
Raisins MacPherson
Ram MacLean
Rangey Lewis
Rasty Pender
Rat Desveaux
Rattler Ruelland
Rat Nip MacPherson
Red MacEachern
Red Angus MacDonald
Red Apples Fraser
Red Bloomers McNeil
Red Duncan McEachern
Red Herring Dwyer
Red Jack McDonald
Rifle Ruby ?
Ripper Romard
Road Nail Burns
Road Runner MacIsaac
Rockey Rockett
Rolly Clarke
Rope Yarn McDonald
Rook MacPhee
Rooster Wilson
Root Bear Hamilton
Ruby McKay
Rubber Neck Ryan
Ruck MacNeil
Runt Morrison
Ruskin ?
Sabo Demeter
Sacks Petrie
Sailor Delaney
Salmon Jaws Roper
Salty Blondo
Sambo Morrison
Sanka MacSween
Satch Stephenson
Saucer Eyes MacLeod
Saucey John MacDonald
Saw Dust MacNeil
Scag DeGobbi
Scoomer Gillis
Schooner Doyle
Schultz Flint
Scoop MacDonald
Scootie MacDonald
Scow MacDonald
Scratchy MacDonald
Scrapper MacLeod
Sculpen Williams
Scruff Burns
Seaweed Fraser
Seedless Kearney
Selly Power
Skinny MacNeil
Skin Head Kane
Skin Flint ?
Skip Gouthro
Skunk MacDonald
Sky Looker Musial
Sky Bolter Firth
Sleepy MacNeil
Slim Young
Slimey Jack MacDougall
Slink Durdle
Slouch Morrison
Slug MacDonald
Slugger Campbell
Sly Poke MacPherson
Smashed Potatoes Burke
Smiley MacDonald
Smish MacLellan
Smock Morrison
Smokey Petrie
Smoothy Burns
Snake Drake
Snail Dupe
Snackum Doyle
Snag MacDougall
Snapper Smith
Sneezer Coady
Sniffer MacPherson
Snopper MacKenzie
Snooks Copan
Snooky MacGillivray
Snub Holm
Soggy Wilson
Soldier Alex MacKinnon
Souls MacLean
Soups Campbell
Soup Bone MacIsaac
Sparkey Fraser
Sparrow MacNeil
Speedy Lasoski
Spider Rich
Spike MacKinnon
Spike Gillis
Spongy Young
Spook MacEachern
Spruce MacLeod
Spud MacLeod
Squeeks MacMaster
Squeeky MacPherson
Squibby Muise
Squint MacVarish
Squirt Baldwin
Squirrely Petrie
Stantz Gillis
Stem MacNeil
Stemmer Fraser
Steakey Stapleton
Stickey MacPherson
Stooge Mason
Stomper Hibbert
Stone Face Lamey
Stretch Gouthro
Stuey Corbett
Stud MacDonald
Stump MacLeod
Stump Puller Gouthro
Subby Reid
Submarine MacDonald
Suey Hughes
Sugars Leadbeater
Super MacNeil
Sun Dog Wilson
Swag Lamey
Sweet Mouth Horvath
Sweet Pea Moore
Sweets MacLeod
Sweetheart Leudy
Sweat Stepaniak
Swish Chaisson
Swivel MacLean
Tackers Sullivan
Taits Springall
Tank MacDonald
Tantz Kearney
Tanner Fortune
Tape MacDougall
Tas Blanchard
Tat Tatlock
Tax MacNeil
Taxi MacDonald
Tea Pot Boudreau
Teedie Cameron
Telephone Mick MacNeil
Termite Gillis
Tessey MacDonald
Tex MacLellan
Tick Gillis
Tie Er Up Hector MacEachern
Tigh Kavanaugh
Tiger MacPhee
Tiny MacDonald
Tiny Tim Odo
Titchy MacDonald
Tippy Currie
Thirty Days MacKinnon
Toad Hall
Tabacco Tonary
Tobby MacLellan
Todds Young
Toddie MacLean
Toe Nails MacKinnon
Tom Cat MacIsaac
Tom Mix Tighe
Tommy Gun Spencer
Toodles Worrell
Toots MacNeil
Topper MacDonald
Tords MacPherson
Tottles Nathanson
Toug Ross
Toy Lion Nemis
Trainor Desveaux
Transistor Mary Metish
Tricky Farrell
Trudeau Walsh
Tub MacIsaac
Tucker Leadbetter
Tud MacQuarrie
Tudey MacDonald
Tuffy MacDonald
Tugger Fortune
Tu Na Half Penny
Tunny Wilson
Turk Walker
Turners MacDonald
Turn Around MacKinnon
Turp MacLean
Turtle MacLean
Tweedie Arseneault
Tweedle Corbett
Tweezers MacPherson
Twid MacDougall
Twitter Gormen
Two Buckles Pettigrew
Two Guns Baker
Ugs MacNeil
Ultra Brite MacNeil
Unconcious MacDonald
Vinegar Jaws O’Brian
Wanders Young
War Horse MacMullin
Warden Bates
Wart Turnbull
Washing Machine McKay
Water The Wine Desveaux
Waxey Cameron
Weary Willie Wooley
Webb Woodland
Weeps Pembroke
Wee Gee Dupe
Wee Wee MacNeil
Weezle MacGillivray
Widow MacDonald
Willie Lump Lump Spencer
Wiggie Hanrahan
Wimpey Muise
Wimps Campbell
Wine Eyes Bates
Wolf MacDonald
Wolverine McMillam
Wishbone Hogan
Wooden Heart Wilson
Wooden Horse MacKenzie
World’s Greatest Vanetti
Wort MacDonald
Whistling Boey Penney
Whistling Hughie MacDoanald
Yankee Dan MacDonald
Yogi Muise
Yonko Micholsky
Yuts Hawley

Angus “Blue” was a much-loved local politician in Glace Bay. Heparlayed his job as a miner and his volunteer work with the CanadianLegion and Little League Baseball into a lifetime position on TownCouncil.
Like so many of his peers, Angus “Blue” left school at an early ageto help support his family. His formal education probably ended withGrade Six. Angus “Blue” was known for his propensity to mangle theEnglish language. He could, on occasion, make Mrs. Malaprop soundlike an Oxford don.
Addressing voters, he referred to them as “my dear constitionaries”.If elected, he promised he would “do something about the ‘LIGHTNING’system on South Street”.
During a Town Council meeting he advised those present he haddifficulty pronouncing Clerk Enso Antonello’s name and thereafterwould refer to him as “the Dago”. No offence was taken by Enso orby “Blue’s” fellow Councillors.
Angus “Blue” clashed once with Prime Minister Mike Pearson who wasat a Legion Atlantic Command convention soft-selling hisgovernment’s approach to bilingualism and biculturalism.
“Listen, Bye”, he told the PM, “if English was good enough for JesusChrist, it’s good enough for us guys down here.” Then, for goodmeasure, he threw in a few profane broadsides.
Ever the diplomat, ever conciliatory, Mike Pearson replied: “Wearen’t trying to legislate language for anyone. It doesn’t matter awhit what language Canadians speak – English, French or the languageof the previous speaker.” Angus “Blue” was smart enough to quit whenhe was behind.
The morning paper the next day carried a photo of Angus “Blue”wearing his blue Blazer and beret, both carrying Legion crests -with his arm around Mike Pearson’s shoulder.
The Hot Stove League that gathered on fine evenings on Senator’sCorner in Glace Bay under the chairmanship of “Big Cy” MacDonald wasalways good for the latest Angus “Blue” miscue – like the night hewent to Vince MacGillivray’s Funeral Parlour wearing his brandnew “double-chested suit and Stilson hat” from Hughie MacIntyre’shaberdashery.
Angus “Blue” didn’t live to experience “NIAGARA”, the new wonderdrug for erectile difficulty. Nor did he ever indulge himself in oneof those new fangled JU-JITSU bathtubs with water jets.
“Big Cy” and Angus “Blue” were in common agreement on one thing.
“Everybody thinks we are backward down here in Cape Breton. Did youknow that last year 10,000 Upper Canadian and American touristsdrove down here to see the SEVEN MILE BRIDGE?”
The Seven Mile Bridge is about 75 feet across – includingapproaches – and spans a narrow stream at Howie Centre. It is sevenmiles from Sydney.
“Now, who’s backward?”
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Northside Hall of Fame inductees profiled, North Sydney, Cape Breton

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Shown are the members of the 1958 Sydney Mines Ramblers. The team will be inducted into the Northside Sports Hall of Fame on Oct. 19. In front from the left, are Ken Jardine, Bryan Cullen, Jim Higgins, Lou Campbell, Leo Doyle, Bill Merritt and Bob Burchell. In back, are Irving Campbell, Gerald Buffett, Frank Lovell, Lewis Matheson, Bob Ferguson, Russ Gordon, Doe MacLellan, Jack MacNeil and Mooney Clark, coach. Missing from the photo are Al MacNeil, Edgar Hillman and Gordie Steweart

NORTH SYDNEY — The Northside Sports Hall of Fame will welcome five new additions during an induction ceremony Oct. 19 at Emera Centre Northside.

The new inductees are Frank (Flash) Hollett and Bill MacLeod as athletes, and builders Tommy Jaques and Elmer (Mooney) Clark.
The 1958 Sydney Mines Ramblers baseball team will also enter the hall of fame in the team category.
Hollett participated in many sports during his youth including a lacrosse, where he caught the eye of Conn Smythe, the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Smythe invited Hollett to the Leafs training camp which led to a stint with Syracuse of the International American Hockey League during the 1933-34 season.
The following year he played four games with Toronto to begin his National Hockey League career that included time with the Ottawa Senators, the Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers.
Because of his swift skating, Hollett was given the nickname ‘Flash, and the speedy winger saw a lot of time on the power play throughout his career.
He played on two Stanley Cup wining teams as a member of the Bruins in 1939 and 1941. He scored 19 goals during the 1941-42 and 1942-43 season and 20 goals in 1944-45.
In 1945 he was traded to the Rangers, but he had promised his wife Florence he would retire and kept his word despite the fact the Rangers general manager had offered him a huge bonus to play the 1946-47 season.
MacLeod began his hockey career outside on ponds and rinks around the Northside until the North Sydney Forum opened in 1947 and he started playing in a juvenile hockey league for the Gannon Road Hawks.
He led the league in scoring and his team went on to lose to Sydney Academy in the Cape Breton finals.
In 1948 he began the first of his two seasons at Dalhousie University as a forward the first year and defenceman in the second.
His career highlights also include a role with the 1967 Sydney Mines Ten Pennies team that captured the Maritime Title. They were also one of the teams to play the first ever Sunday game at the North Sydney Forum.
And in 1971 he was captain of the Northside Vics that met the Amherst Ramblers in the Nova Scotia play downs.
As a builder Jaques was known for many years as Mr. Baseball in Sydney Mines even though he focused his efforts on organizing, leaving playing and coaching to others.
His reputation grew in the mid-40s at a time when baseball in Sydney Mines saw imports playing and locals only watching.
Back then local players competed for teams in their neighbourhoods known as Bogrow,  Cranberry, Knob Hill and Sutherlands Corner because they were not allowed to play at Brown Street Park.
Jaques knew there were several great ball players in each community, so he put those players on one team to compete in the Cape Breton Junior League.
This team toured the Maritimes for exhibition play at very list cost because Jaques covered the expenses.
His efforts later led to a Cape Breton Junior title for the team in 1949.
Senior titles and several provincial titles followed.
Clark also enters the hall in the builders category for his interests in multiple sports, including boxing, which he began at an early age with the North Sydney Sea Cadet Corps.
In the early 1940s he won the Golden Gloves featherweight division title and continued to box at St. Mary’s Hall and the Glace Bay Miners Forum.
With the help of Jaques he started to play and coach baseball and senior teams he coached in Sydney Mines won four Cape Breton titles as well as provincial banners in 1958 and 1960.
He was connected to hockey teams on the Northside as a coach and trainer, as well. And in his later years enjoyed softball, skating and blowing.
The 1958 Ramblers baseball team earns induction this year to honour their storied run at the Maritime Baseball Championship against the Woodstock Elks.
That team also captured the Cape Breton title, defeating the Sydney Steel and then the New Waterford Giants in their march to the title.
In Nova Scotia play downs they downed the heavily favoured Londonderry Ironclads before facing Woodstock for the Maritime title.
In that historic series they face a Woodstock team considered a step higher than senior ball because they had four imports from the United States.
As a result they took the best-of-three series with a 6-4 victory in Game 3.
The five inductees will be honoured at the third annual Northside Sports Hall of Fame dinner and awards ceremonies in the Emera Centre Northside, Oct. 19.
Tickets for the ceremony are now on sale. Contact Cynthia Astephen at 577-7823, Mary Lou Andrea at 577-4939 or any board member of the Northside Sports Hall of Fame.
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