Golf developers who already established two 18-hole golf courses, are now eyeing another location along the western coastline of Cape Breton Island, for the second time.
Cabot Cape Breton, which operates the Cabot Links...
While the composition of a cell and the history of the
Revolutionary War are important parts of school curriculum, I would argue that
one of the most important lessons in my son’s high school classes this year has
been the...
Although it failed more than a decade ago, the town and county of Antigonish deserve credit for taking another stab at forming one single municipal unit.
On Sept. 13, Antigonish Town Council and council...
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...
Ephrem Boudreau wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated:
The Silver Jubilee of Rev. Father Pierre Robitaille
At the Solemn High Mass the jubilee was assisted by Fathers Leo Keats, priest at St. Peter’s and Alfred-Abraham Boudreau...
The Cheticamp River originates on the northern plateau of Cape Breton and flows some 25 kilometres westward to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Beginning in peat bogs and barrens and small lakes on top of the plateau, it starts off...
In 1971, Intermediate baseball was not the only game in town.
A hastily formed team of Midget-age players was cobbled together to represent Richmond County in the Cape Breton Regional Summer Games. Without so much as an exhibition game under...
“Lionel Desmond’s terminal trajectory had numerous places where various government agencies touched his life.”
Nova Scotia Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Matt Bowes on January 10 announcing his recommendation of an inquiry into the deaths of Lionel Desmond and members of...
Air travel is not for the faint-hearted, nor is it for the impatient. Or for those of us who like peace and quiet, or prefer to stick to schedules, or despise lines, or who love personal space.
The number of...
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 are excerpts from the Richmond County Record dated...