Ottawa - April 17, 1878 CJ Campbell exploded from his seat on the floor of the House of Commons. After almost 24 hours of steady debate, and far too many drinks, his Scottish warrior blood was boiling. The Honourable Charles J. Campbell. (Parliament of Canada) Campbell – then 59, stumbled his way from the back bench, through the crowded rows of official opposition parliamentarians, seated two to a desk and past the leader of the party Sir John A. McDonald and his top lieutena

‘Hello Charlie’ I say out loud as I walk past the likeness of Charles J Campbell above the door of the Old Post Office. I presume this is what Charlie intended. That more than 120 years after he took his final breath, his presence is still addressed, he is still greeted, still remembered by the people of Baddeck. Because, obviously, if you have your face carved in stone on a public building, on the Main Street, over the main door - you do not want to be forgotten. There must

Monday is National Aviation Day in Canada and Cape Breton has much to celebrate! From the Files this week, a compilation of Silver Dart stories not often shared, some great quotes and a bit of Dart trivia! “You ask me why we thought of ‘Silver Dart’ as a name for aerodrome no. 4. Well, the surfaces are silvered on one side, that suggested the ‘Silver’ and the word ‘dart’ will explain itself.” - JAD McCurdy in a letter to Mabel Bell, August 1908. The first flight in Ca