Dorothy’s Cat Sanctuary, which is serving a good cause, is located in River Bourgeois and has been there for many years. It has accommodations for some 30-plus unwanted, homeless, rescued, or abandoned felines, ranging from young kittens,...
Editor’s note: The following letter was written to Catholics in the Diocese of Antigonish.
On Thursday, June 18 we received word from Dr. Robert Strang, the Chief Medical Officer of Health for Nova Scotia,...
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...
May 4, 1909: Jonas Stone, widower of Catherine
McDonald, married Ida Boudreau, daughter of Jean Boudreau and Anne Martel,
witnesses Martin Meagher and Caroline Gaudet
June 28, 1909: Godfrey LeBlanc, son of Jeffrey LeBlanc
and Marie Giroir,...
John Josselyn Latimer married Hilda Marie Leslie Dec. 29, 1921
Charles John Howard Latimer married Annie Esther Stewart (Boston) Sept. 14, 1921
Harry J. Murray (Methodist, Lynn, Massachusetts) married Agnes J....
Looking back over the decades and, indeed centuries, it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were or are common in this area.
One of those names that still holds a...
There are times when people choose to discriminate rather than to accept.
The world’s history contains many examples of situations where people were subjected to discrimination, persecution or victimization. We cannot change the world’s...
By: Dr. Annamarie Hatcher
As you drive around the roads in the Biosphere later in
the summer, you will probably notice expanses of tiny white flower clusters on
tall stalks.
You may...
It puzzles me why some people do not like to acknowledge their birth dates.
Many of us older folks grumble about having birthdays but such occurrences are our realities to be alive so instead...
The West Bay Road and District Volunteer Fire Department want to inform the residents of the Kingsville and Glendale areas of Inverness County, that the dry hydrant located in Glendale is no longer functioning properly and has...