Russell Cunningham (December 29, 1905 – March 6, 1985) was a Canadian social democratic politician from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
[2] He represented the electoral district (riding) of Cape Breton East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1945 until 1956.
[citation needed] He was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in 1904.
They began their wedded life purchasing the Bradbury farm on Big Glace Bay Lake.
They moved on to a farm property at Sand Lake and then, in December 1945, purchased the Marconi property (including the radio station VAS, Voice of the Atlantic Seaboard) a few miles out of Glace Bay, NS where they raised their family and resided until he died in 1985 and she in 1989.