Following was the Schedule of Events for the Anniversary

Sunday, August 7, 2005

Exhibits & Display - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury Waterfront

Special Causeway Displays - 12:00noon - 4:00 pm - Gut of Canso Museum and Archives, Port Hastings

Ecumenical Service - 2:00 pm - Creignish

Ribbon Cutting 50 Years of Quilting - 4:00 pm - St. David's United Church, Port Hastings

Granville Green Concert - 7:00 pm - Featuring Matt Mays & El Torpedo

Monday, August 8, 2005

Exhibits & Display - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury Waterfront

Special Causeway Displays - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm - Gut of Canso Museum and Archives, Port Hastings

50 Years of Quilting - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - St. David's United Church, Port Hastings

Art Gallery Display - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Port Hawkesbury

Memories of Mulgrave Display - 10:30 am - 8:00 pm - Eastern Counties Regional Library, Mulgrave

Lunchtime Concert - Mulgrave

Lecture Series - 6:00 pm - Point Tupper Church
Memories of the Railway in the Strait Area with guest speaker Martin Boston.

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Exhibits & Display - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury Waterfront

Special Causeway Displays - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm - Gut of Canso Museum and Archives, Port Hastings

50 Years of Quilting - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - St. David's United Church, Port Hastings

Art Gallery Display - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Port Hawkesbury

Lunchtime Concert - Creignish

Lecture Series - 2:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Waterfront
Author Elaine Hogg reading from her book about the Causeway - "When Canada Joined Cape Breton".

Memories of Mulgrave Display - 2:30 pm - 8:00 pm - Eastern Counties Regional Library, Mulgrave

Ceilidh at The Creamery - 8:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury
Featuring Rodney MacDoanld, Harvey MacKinnon, Kay Hanrahan, Howie MacDonald and Hank MacDonald.
Tickets at the door $10.00 (adult) $5.00 (youth).

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Exhibits & Display - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury Waterfront

Special Causeway Displays - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm - Gut of Canso Museum and Archives, Port Hastings

50 Years of Quilting - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - St. David's United Church, Port Hastings

Art Gallery Display - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Port Hawkesbury

Lunchtime Concert - St. Peter’s

Lecture Series - 2:00 pm - NSCC, Strait Area Campus
The Canso Causeway as an Engineering Feat.
Les and Murray MacPhie will speak to the design and construction of the Canso Causeway and the Nova Scotia Community College Strait Campus (Nautical Institute) will provide a demonstration of their simulator.

Memories of Mulgrave Display - 2:30 pm - 8:00 pm - Eastern Counties Regional Library, Mulgrave

Causeway Ceilidh - 7:30 pm - SAERC Auditorium, Port Hawkesbury
Join us as we "visit" the colourful past and present of the Canso Causeway and Strait Area in a unique production of music, poetry, dance and more - all inspired by or related to the Causeway.The Ceilidh wil include fiddlers Buddy MacMaster, Jackie Dunn MacIsaac and Dougie MacDonald; Gaelic singers Jeff MacDonald and Rita Rankin MacDonald; Acadian performer Delores Boudreau; pipers Anthony MacEachern and Harold Joseph MacDonnell; and singer-songwriters Cyril MacPhee from St. Peter's, Mulgrave's Gary Williams, Carl Bond from Canso and Bobbie Currie from Sydney.

Pub Under The Stars - 9:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Waterfront - Featuring Abbey Road, a tribute to the Beatles.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Exhibits & Display - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury Waterfront

Canso Canal Tours - 8:00 am - 8:00 pm - Canso Canal Site

Special Causeway Displays - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm - Gut of Canso Museum and Archives, Port Hastings

50 Years of Quilting - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - St. David's United Church, Port Hastings

Art Gallery Display - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Port Hawkesbury

Pipers' & Drummers' Reunion - 11:00 am - NSCC Strait Area Campus, Port Hastings

Memories of Mulgrave Display - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Eastern Counties Regional Library, Mulgrave

Angus L. Macdonald Symposium - 1:30pm - Hall of the Clans, Angus L. Macdonald Library, St. FX
Speakers: Sister Margaret MacDonell - Angus L. Macdonald; The Celtic Connection, Alec MacKinnon - Angus L. Macdonald; Citizen Soldier, Honorable Patriot, Inspiring Leader, Allan J. MacEachen; Angus L. Macdonald Remembered, MC: Doctor John B. Stewart

Lecture Series 2:00 pm - Canso Canal Site
Memories of Construction Workers and the Opening of the Causeway 50 Years Ago. Various speakers.

Evening Concert - 5:00 pm - Aulds Cove

Stories from the Strait - 6:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre
An evening of stories and lore related to the Causeway, featuring Sheldon Currie, Linden MacIntyre, Billy Joe MacLean and more.

Songs on the Waterfront - 7:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury
An evening of songs about the causeway, featuring the finalists in the Causeway Song Contest, plus Leon Dubinsky, John MacDoanld and Kay Hanrahan. Tickets at the door $10.00 (adult) $5.00 (youth)

Pastoral Airs - 8:00 pm - St. Margaret of Scotland Church, Broad Cove

Pub Under The Stars - 9:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Waterfront - Featuring The Pints

Friday, August 12, 2005

Bluenose II in the Strait of Canso

Stampede Breakfast - 7:30 am - 9:30 am - Port Hawkesbury Waterfront
Presented by Bear Head LNG.

Canso Canal Tours - 8:00 am - 8:00 pm - Canso Canal Site

Exhibits & Display - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury Waterfront

Special Causeway Displays - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm - Gut of Canso Museum and Archives, Port Hastings

Angus L. Macdonald Cairn Ceremony - 9:00 am

50 Years of Quilting - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - St. David's United Church, Port Hastings

Art Gallery Display - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre

Workers’ Reunion - 11:00 am - Aulds Cove

Lunchtime Concert - Note: Location change to Glendale.

Angus L. Macdonald Military Service - 12:00 pm - Stella Maris Church, Inverness

Angus L. Macdonald Tea & Reception - 1:00 pm - Inverness Miner's Museum Gallery, Inverness

Lecture Series - 1:00 pm - Aulds Cove

Angus L. Macdonald Civic Ceremony - 4:00 pm - Port Hastings

Angus L. Macdonald Formal Dinner - 6:00 pm - Judique Community Centre
A tribute dinner to Angus L. Macdonald hosted by MC Linden MacIntyre.
Tickets are available by phoning 902-787-2832.

Piping & Drumming Concert - 7:00 pm - Granville Green
A concert featuring the pipers and drummers who will participate in the Re-enactment march on Saturday August 13th.

Memories of Neilie's Dance Hall - 9:00 pm - Judique Community Centre

Pub Under The Stars - 9:00pm - Port Hawkesbury Waterfront - Entertainment - Beolach will perform under a tent on the waterfront.

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Bluenose II in the Strait of Canso

Canso Canal Tours - 8:00 am - 8:00 pm - Canso Canal Site

Exhibits & Display - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury Waterfront

Special Causeway Displays - 12:00noon - 4:00 pm - Gut of Canso Museum and Archives, Port Hastings

50 Years of Quilting - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - St. David's Church, Port Hastings

Art Gallery Display - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre

Re-enactment Ceremony - 2:00 pm - Canso Causeway & Canal
A Re-enactment of the 1955 opening of the Causeway, featuring a procession of 1955 era antique cars, a march of hundreds of pipers, and a formal Re-enactment Ceremony.

Pipers' & Drummers' Social - 4:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Waterfront
A gathering exclusively for the pipers and drummers who participated in the Re-enactment march.

The Golden Gala Concert - 8:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre
A once-in-a-lifetime concert of Cape Breton music and comedy to commemorate the Anniversary of the Canso Causeway. Featuring some of the Island's finest performers, including Raylene Rankin, Bruce Guthro, The Barra MacNeils, Beolach, The Cottars, Bette MacDonald, Maynard Morrison, the Cape Breton Fiddlers Association, former members of the Summertime Revue, General John Cabot Trail, pipers, drummers, a mass choir and more!

Back to the 50’s Dance - 10:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury
Travel back in time to the 50's when the Causeway was constructed to dance the night away to the music of The Automatics. Particpants are encouraged to dress the part so bring back your poodle skirts and ducktails!

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Bluenose II in the Strait of Canso

Show & Shine - 9:00 am - 2:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Ballfield

Exhibits & Display - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - The Creamery, Port Hawkesbury Waterfront

Special Causeway Displays - 12:00noon - 4:00 pm - Gut of Canso Museum and Archives, Port Hastings

50 Years of Quilting - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - St. David’s United Church, Port Hastings

Art Gallery Display - 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre

Causeway Kids Zone - 1:00 pm- Port Hawkesbury Waterfront
Children's entertainment by Audrey & Alex, plus games and rides.

Inaugural Canso Causeway Anniversary Sailing Race - 1:00 pm - Strait of Canso, Port Hawkesbury & Mulgrave Waterfronts

Point Tupper Heritage Tea - 2:00 pm - Point Tupper Heritage Church

Granville Green Concert - 7:00 pm
Featuring J.P. Cormier and Andrew White.

Golden Flotilla Parade of Boats - Dusk - Strait of Canso
A spectacular display as boats light up and parade from Port Hawkesbury to the Causeway and over to Mulgrave. The Bluenose II will lead the procession.

Fireworks - Dusk - Strait of Canso
A brilliant display of fireworks to complete the Anniversary.

Flotilla Reception - 10:30 pm - Port Hawkesbury Waterfront
A gathering for the Flotilla boating participants.

* The Great Atlantic Tugboat Square Dance will be held during the anniversary week. Because this activity is dependant on pleasant weather, a date and time will be confirmed closer to the actual anniversary week.

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