The relatively smooth coastline of the Strait of Canso is interrupted by a thumb-shaped peninsula that juts northwestward into the strait.
It forms the northern end of an oval-shaped body of land that looks as if it could have been...
It seems that two Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) projects
targeted for the Strait area have travelled different directions.
The company behind the $10 billion Goldboro LNG
project, Pieridae Energy Ltd.,
now owns all of Shell Canada’s
midstream and...
Richmond County Canada, District No. 41 Richmond, Sub-District No. 6
Taken by Daniel Sampson, April 6, 1891
Text transcribed and contributed by Jeanne D. Belford
This transcription should be of particular interest to those with Bonin, Boucher, Boudrot, Burke, Cordeau, Dugas, Fougere,...
January 29, 1906: Henri Boudrot, son of Jeffrey Boudrot and Marie Hebert, Arichat, married Louise Pertus, daughter of Jean Pertus and Adele Benoit, witnesses Alexandre Boudrot and Lybie/Lydie LeBlanc
February 7, 1906: Beni Boudrot, son of Charles Boudrot and the...
Ocean sunfish are sometimes found on the beaches of the
Bras d’Or estuary in autumn and early winter, generating a lot of interest.
You may think that Ocean sunfish (Mi’kmaq: E’pma’jit)
earned that name because of...
I’ll remember the last full week of January for a long time, particularly the 72-hour window that saw shocking falls from grace for three political heavyweights, sweeping changes for Nova Scotia’s education system, the swan song of a veteran...
There were two questions that I heard on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis when I worked at the tourist bureau in St. Peter’s as a teenager during the summer of 1992.
They were: “Where’s the St. Peter’s Canal?” And: “Are...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a periodical that lasted for almost 80 years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his father and continued the paper into the 1970’s.
The following are excerpts from the Richmond County Record of...
After exploring how the provincial health care system,
and civilian and military authorities let down Afghanistan veteran Cpl. Lionel
Desmond, and led to the tragic murder-suicide, the Desmond Fatality Inquiry
looked into how he was able to obtain the murder...
Along Arichat’s “Low Road” in 1935, In roughly the
center of the village located between the LeBrun store and the LeBlanc store,
was the home of Charles P. Stone.
There was barely room for a driveway...