From its hilarious opening passage by Mary Morrison (BetteMacDonald to its poignant  farewell by author-editor Elaine Ingalls Hogg, When Canada Joined Cape Breton is a medley of memories collected over the past three years and compiled in the publication which was launched in Port Hawkesbury last Thursday to mark the 50^th anniversary of the opening of the Canso Causeway.

When Canada joined Cape Breton (Nimbus) winds its way across the decades much the way the design of the Canso Causeway seems to meander across the Strait of Canso.  In a series of nine chapters, Hogg allows her contributors to tell the story of this great undertaking from concept through construction to its memorable opening in August of 1954 to its 25^th anniversary into the present and projecting another half-century into the future.  The single story unfolds through dozens of voices who have shared their memories of the Canso Causeway with Elaine Hogg. (Frank MacDonald in the Inverness Oran, April 5, 2005)