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Canadians react to Rita MacNeil’s passing

By Staff Global News

Posted April 17, 2013 5:47 am

Updated August 5, 2013 10:27 am

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Rita MacNeil speaks after receiving a lifetime achievement award at the East Coast Music Awards Sunday Feb. 20, 2005 in Sydney N.S. CP PHOTO/Jacques Boissinot

Singer and Cape Breton darling Rita MacNeil passed away Tuesday evening. She was 68.

Her death was announced in a news release on her website, which described her as “a gentle soul with a heart of gold and the voice of an angel.”

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Canadians from Big Pond, Cape Breton to Vancouver were saddened by folk icon’s death.

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