I’ve been doing research the past few days about the
proposed airport in Inverness. There are lots of opinions, plenty of
criticisms, and multiple shows of support. The one thing I wasn’t able to find,
however, is a single good...
As much as I’m happy to see September arrive, part of me hates to leave August behind.
That’s likely because the month of August is responsible for some of the most life-changing, transformative, growth-building and heart-filling moments I’ve ever had....
In the Mi’kmaw calendar, October is Wikewiku’s, or animal fattening month.
This is a time of plenty in terms of food supplies for many animals but that situation will change dramatically as the ground freezes and is then covered with...
We are going to continue along the Upper Road, moving west from St. John’s Anglican Church.
In 1935 the only house after the St. John’s rectory was that of Nicholas Dixon, 1845 to 1934....
Ephrem Boudreau wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated.
Acadians were, for the most part, men of the sea because many of their ancestors came from French maritime ports, or...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905. After his classical studies from 1922 to 1928, he spent three years at agricultural school. Here he earned bachelors’ degrees in arts and one in agricultural science. In addition, he...
The Pilikan House is a living lab on the Middleton
campus of the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), designed and equipped to
produce as much energy as it in turn consumes, championing what the science
folk call net-zero housing. I...
I was going to do a column comparing ninjas and pirates in order to finally settle the raging debate as to which is cooler but then I thought it might be a bit insensitive to people who were boarded...
I would like to make some comments regarding the rambling letter from Rolf Bouman, which was published in the March 15 edition of The Reporter, as he attempts to justify Cabot Golf’s takeover of a huge chunk...
The Eastern hemlock is a force of nature in Nova
Scotia.
Not only is it among the most common trees in the
province, it’s invariably the oldest. It was routinely ignored by foresters
past and present in...