Bondar receives CBU’s highest honour

Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Alexander Graham Bell Historic Site
Elizabeth Patterson, The Cape Breton Post

From her view of Bell’s Silver Dart replica hanging above the ceremonies representing Canada’s first powered flight to her own memory of orbiting the Earth in STS Discovery — and all within 80 years of each other — the vision of Cape Breton University‘s special convocation in this most appropriate of Canadian aviation sites was never lost on Dr Bondar.

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