Sydney Academy student Julian Marshall wins third annual CBC Cape Breton Leadership Award

Julian Marshall, a Grade 12 student at Sydney Academy, is the winner of the third annual CBC Cape Breton Leadership Award. Marshall will be attending Cape Breton University in September, pursuing a degree in business.

The CBC Cape Breton Leadership Award is given to a graduating student from a Cape Breton high school who will be attending Cape Breton University. The recipient must have demonstrated an exceptional capacity for leadership among his or her peers and in the community. CBC Cape Breton’s Information Morning created the award to help support the education and development of future leaders of Cape Breton Island.

Marshall, the grandson of the late Donald Marshall Senior, former Grand Chief of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council, has been active in leadership throughout his school years. He is the Membertou Youth Chief, was co-president of his junior high student council and is also a varsity athlete.  He recently won the PotashCorp Aboriginal Youth Financial Management Award, one of four awarded in Canada.

Applicants for the CBC Cape Breton Leadership Award are required to write an essay, of no more than 500 words, on what leadership means to them with examples of how they have demonstrated this leadership. There is no minimum scholastic average required.

In 2009, CBC Cape Breton Information Morning host Steve Sutherland did a series of interviews ...