The Spanish Flu in Cape Breton, Part 2

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 5:10 a.m.

In Part 2, we begin in Petit-de-Grat, as we continue to hear stories from Cape Breton about the influenza pandemic of 1918. NS author and historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead compiled hundreds of accounts of the "vicious" spanish flu in her book called "Nova Scotia & The Great Influenza Pandemic 1918 - 1920."