About three or four kilometres from Iona, and after crossing the Barra Strait Bridge, we come to the small village of Christmas Island.
Christmas Island is situated on the north side of a peninsula that lies between East Bay and...
On July 8, 1773, a rickety 20-year-old Dutch ship left Loch Broom on the west coast of Scotland with 189 displaced Highland Scots on board seeking a new life in the wilderness of eastern Canada.
Like some of the vessels...
The Cheticamp River originates on the northern plateau of Cape Breton and flows some 25 or so kilometres westward to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Beginning in peat bogs, barrens and small lakes on top of the plateau, it starts...
I was standing on the bluff of the Chimney Corner road looking down on Margaree Harbour and the mouth of the Margaree River.
The new bridge loomed in the distance and the beach was covered with ice and snow. The...
The little plane dropped down over the coastline at Margaree. We leveled off and started along the coast towards Inverness.
A short distance away from the coast, the air became smoother and we dropped down to about 500 feet above...
Towards the middle of April jobs around the property could simply wait because it was time to grab the camera and head for some of the nearby fishing communities.
Why? Because it was getting close to the first of May...
The autumn colour season is just about over.
We were all expecting that the colours might be not as good as other years because of the dry summer season, but in places, they are as brilliant as ever. Now it...
Chedabucto Bay is a large body of water that separates the southeastern tip of Cape Breton from the mainland of Nova Scotia. It is bordered by Isle Madame and Richmond County on the Cape Breton side and Guysborough County...
I’m sitting on my veranda having a cool drink and watching the round bales of hay pop out of the baler in the field across the way near St. Margaret’s Church in West Bay Road. Am I wishing to...
The sun was shining bright, the temperature wasn’t too cold, and it was a great day for a late winter drive.
The topic at Tim Horton’s was often about the amount of snow on the Cape Breton Highlands and how...