ePub My Brother's Keeper: Christians Who Risked All to Protect Jewish Targets of the Nazi Holocaust by Rod Gragg in History

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2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award ― Shortlisted Paul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans. From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery; Cape Breton was considered unusual. The history of the area even includes early references to the island having once been the land of the Chinese. In 1497; at least a century before any attempt at European settlement in the region; the explorer John Cabot had referred to Cape Breton as the “Island of Seven Cities.” The indigenous people of the region; the Mi’kmaq; were the only aboriginal people of North America who had a written language when Europeans first arrived. This writing; clothing; and customs also suggested an early Chinese presence. In Written in the Ruins; Chiasson investigates the ruins at St. Peters in the southern part of the island; where evidence brought to light supports a theory that could answer all the questions raised by the island’s curious; unresolved history.