Schools Name: Cape Bretons Gaelic College

Cape Bretons Gaelic College: The controversy erupted earlier this month when the colleges board of directors decided to add the word royal to the schools name, a special designation from the Queen herself, according to The Star. Allan MacMaster, the member of the legislature who represents the Cape Breton district of Inverness, says the name change was inappropriate and insulting and HALIFAX A recent decision to alter the name of Cape Bretons Gaelic College has ripped open centuries-old wounds among the many descendents of Scottish immigrants who first landed in Nova Scotia more than 200 years ago. However, a growing chorus of complaints has emerged from those who say the addition is offensive because it ignores the fact that most of the Gaelic-speaking migrants who sailed to Nova Scotia in the late 1700s were forced out of the Highlands in the years following a decisive battle with the English. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.