My decision to run for the Leadership of the PC Party of Nova Scotia has taken me across the province, where I’m able to sit and listen to people’s ideas and hear their concerns on what is impacting them...
Midway through last week’s Celtic Colours schedule, a viral video from the Celtic Heart of North America program summed up the effect the festival has across Cape Breton.
The carefully-staged clip features Mairi Rankin and Wendy MacIsaac playing fiddle tunes...
Looking back over the decades and, indeed centuries, it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were or are common in this area.
One of those names that still holds a...
Attention and assessment is needed concerning three exit sites in Port Hawkesbury; two sites coming from McDonalds and one site coming out from the Causeway Shopping Centre exit.
I witnessed heavy volumes of vehicle...
Real estate shows are back.
They were pretty popular on home-improvement television a number of years ago, and they seem to be coming back with a vengeance. Turn your channel to HGTV (Home and Garden Television), and chances are a...
Arichat is the oldest parish in the Diocese of Antigonish. This is the seventh installment recounting its history.
In 1872 Father John Cameron was serving his ninth year as rector of the diocesan cathedral...
I am not a teacher, I’m not married to a teacher, neither of my parents are teachers, and the closest ties I have to teachers are some extended family members and friends. So I don’t speak for them and...
It’s Arichat back in 1935 and we’re travelling east
toward Petit de Grat. The last home encountered was that of Bennie and Jennie
(Richard) Marchand, later owned by Newman Skinner.
The house next door was that...
She was born into humble circumstances as many were on Isle Madame in 1941. The bite of the Great Depression was still very real and many sons, husbands and brothers were off to war, some out of...
In studying the history of a village, town or county, it is those individuals who had an impact on the life of their time who receive the recognition, and rightfully so.
Successful entrepreneurs like...