“ People asked him all the time is that whe re such and such happened, is that bluff ‘ Cal um Ruadh Point,’ is that where the boy ’ s parents fe ll through the ice and drowned? And he said again and again, ‘It’ s fiction. T all, blonde, and plain-spoken, Gil MacLeod warns against a literal interpretation of his cousin’s works. Driving north on Highway 19 from the Canso C ause way and winding along the coast I’ve been keeping an eye out for “ Calum Ruadh’s Point,” the fictional burial place of redheaded Calum MacDonald which is worn away by storms “as if his grave is moving out to sea.” Gil MacLeod leading the way to the writing shack. His novel No Great Mischief, publ ished when he was 63, tells the story of the clan Donald’s emigration to Canada led by patriarch “ Calum MacDonald” during the Highlands Clearances. In MacLeod’s stories, fiction and history are inextricably intertwined, and the literary pilgrim comes to Cape Breton Island expecting to find landmarks immortalized in his stories.
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