Aside from parents, few people spend as much time and have as much influence on children as teachers. Teachers are the most seen and heard authority figures during the most important years of a child’s development, and aside from...
Arichat 1935: Main street, center of the village.
This house, originally built by Constant P. Terrio, was subsequently owned by Alphonse J. Benoit, Wilfred Samson and currently by Wilfred’s daughter Yvonne and her husband Gilles Boudreau.
The foundation of the house...
If it wasn’t enough that his Conservative Party
leadership campaign has been marked by missteps, along comes Peter MacKay’s
tone deaf response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic.
Despite the setbacks, MacKay remains the front-runner
in...
We have to discuss service; restaurant service, to be specific.
Full disclosure: I was a waitress for a long time, both when I was younger and more recently, in both local and urban area restaurants. I have worked in little...
The controversy surrounding the lane configuration for the Destination Reeves Street project underscores the need for a by-pass around the town.
During the regular monthly meeting on February 5, town councillors in Port Hawkesbury unanimously defeated a motion to remove...
In just a few short years, Nova Scotians will elect a PC government with Tim Houston as Premier.
I am convinced that this change is coming and there’s no doubt in my mind that soon, a majority of Nova Scotians...
Thanks to a Facebook
post by Dr. Steven DeRoche, the identities of local Spanish Flu victims have
been made known. In the following columns, I hope to bring the identities of
these victims to a wider audience.
May 24, 1947 - Alice Amélie Boudreau - Herbert E. Boudreau and Rose Boudreau - Alphonse V. Boudreau and Mme. Wilfred Joshua
May 21, 1947 - Marie Thérèse Landry - Charles H. Landry and Marguerite Boudreau - Harry H. Landry...
If what we eat is tasty, fragrant, packaged and readily available, what is not to like? Sadly much of what we eat has been affected by food processing, corporate marketing and nutritional adjustments.
Humans...
The first recorded killer gale in this area was that of August 1725. The exact date fluctuates from the 24 to the 27 but old documents indicate that Le Chameau, a French ship, went down with 316...