Pans of ice shunted back and forth through the Strait of Canso.
It was the middle of March 1946. We were on our way to the Canadian-American border. We spent that winter living at my grandparents’ place in South West...
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...
Six o’clock in the morning on the streets of Venice, Italy, a strange sound coming behind me caught my attention. A man marching, carrying and playing some sort of bagpipe came into view. Under his arm, a large inflated...
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...
Some years ago I started photographing old houses and barns wherever I traveled.
After hundreds of photos, I realized that there were many different types, varying in size, shape, materials used, and the culture of the community in which they...
A couple of summers ago on a trip to Baddeck, I decided to re-visit the Uisge Ban waterfall.
By following the road on the west side of the Baddeck River, it didn’t take long to get to the Department of...
What causes a person to put on a hard hat, some old clothes, and crawl and grope around in the large cavities and tight passages of a natural underground cave?
It is a question that is sometimes hard to answer....
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...
Jutting out into Ingonish Bay and dividing the bay into two distinct parts, the North and South bay, is a rocky finger of land known as Middle Head.
Almost three kilometres long, its rocky cliff shorelines are constantly waging a...
At 9:30 Wednesday morning were on our way to the Cape Breton Highlands.
A stop in Whycocomagh for coffee and cinnamon rolls (our morning fix) and it was down the Trans-Canada Highway to the Red Barn near Nyanza, three or...