Although his recovery will take time, and he is still suffering the effects of his injury, Anthony MacDonald’s story of resilience and the community’s response are inspiring in every sense of the word.
A...
“The plague full swift goes by…” – Thomas Nashe
After almost a year of wrestling with the challenges presented by Covid, and despite casting a wary eye to what may well be “the winter...
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 1970s.
The following excerpts are...
Nova Scotia’s Official Opposition is pounding the governing Liberals over their decision to move the Outpatient Withdrawal Management Program (also known as daytox) from the Strait-Richmond Hospital last spring.
Months after it was quietly...
As some people are aware, I am writing this letter in good faith to try and help other people in two other Cape Breton communities.
The Framboise-Fourchu area needs prompt attention concerning the deteriorating...
Diseases, which have all but been forgotten, were common and at times fatal 100 years ago: diphtheria, appendicitis, pneumonia, yellow jaundice, and tuberculosis were the main ones.
At one point, a county nurse traveled...
Around the time of the American War of Independence there were those who maintained their loyalty to Great Britain and did not support a violent revolution. These “Tories” also referred to as Loyalists found themselves in a...
Europeans and others who arrived in North America adopted the idea of taking as much of the natural resources (lumber, minerals, fish, etc.) as they possibly could.
They have continued to do exactly that...
Almost 100 years after World War I - a bloody war bookended by a deadly global flu – the world is once again plagued by another invisible enemy.
But this time, there is no...
By: Garth Paul Ukrainetz
Poet Laureate of the Blackmud Creek
From the collection of Albert Sayer, courtesy Karen Pelton
Roll on...