Career
Although he continued to play nights at square dances across Nova Scotia, MacMaster began a career as a station agent and telegrapher for the Canadian National Railway to support himself and his family. In 1943, he made his first radio broadcast from the town of Antigonish, Nova Scotia in 1948. In the 1970s, he played regularly on Canadian television; CBC Television's Ceilidh show. After his retirement from the railroad in 1988, he went on to play full-time as a professional musician, gaining an international reputation. He was one of the first Cape Breton fiddlers to be asked to teach in Scotland.
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