>>1611080Blue was born in 1901, “the same year as the Cape Breton Electric Company” which he joined in 1923. He described the extent of the tram system, at its peak, this way:
[T]his Cape Breton Electric Company covered a big district. It covered Sydney and Glace Bay and North Sydney. They had a line from North Sydney to Sydney Mines. Then they had what we called the [Whitney] Pier line, a line right into the Pier from town and another one to Whitney Avenue, went around the outskirts of the city. When I started, the Cape Breton Electric Company also had ferry boats running from Sydney to North Sydney.
