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Culture‘Big Jim’ MacLellan, a six-decade pillar of Men of the Deeps, remembered

Jim “Big Jim” MacLellan of Glace Bay, N.S., worked as a coal miner before becoming a mine manager and spent six decades with the Men of the Deeps choir. He died Friday at 92 and is remembered for monologues about Cape Breton miners and their communities.

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CCBC News★☆☆☆☆2026-11-01 15:54Original

‘Big Jim’ MacLellan, a six-decade pillar of Men of the Deeps, remembered
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