Neil F. Libbey is an author and historian in
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, was incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolv ...
, a community in the
Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
[Cape Breton Post; April 7, 2007, p.27, Stewart, Wes, "Sydney Cemetery Rich in History".]
Personal
Born in
Hollywood, California and raised in
San Dimas, he moved to
Cape Breton in 1985.
[Libbey, Neil F. "Portside: An Early History of the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club". Sydney, NS: City Printers. "]
Libbey is a graduate of the
University College of Cape Breton
, "Diligence Will Prevail"
, mottoeng = Perseverance Will Triumph
, established = 1951 as Xavier Junior College 1968 as NSEIT 1974 as College Of Cape Breton 1982 as University College of Cape Breton 2005 as Cape Breton ...
and the
University of Maine, and is a teacher by trade.
Professional
Libbey authored ''Portside: An Early History of the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club'' in 2003
[Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers]
/ref> and contributed articles to ''The Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers'' published in 2005.
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American expatriates in Canada
Canadian educators
21st-century Canadian historians
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Writers from Nova Scotia
People from Los Angeles County, California
People from the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Living people
Cape Breton University alumni
People from San Dimas, California
Year of birth missing (living people)