Enough already; I’m tired of most of what is making the news during these summer months.
Let’s take a break from what we hear about almost daily: the war in Ukraine; COVID-19; sexual assaults;...
The first priest who lived at West Arichat was Father Jean Baptiste Allain, a French émigré who had to flee from St. Pierre and Miquelon to the Magdalene Islands in 1792.
Afflicted with asthma,...
How did it come to be that StFX University got its start in Arichat?
In 1760 Britain conquered New France and one of the consequences of this development was to precipitate the exodus of...
This week: The bizarre tale of an American late-night
host who ran for mayor of a Newfoundland community with a frequently-mocked
name.
The host: Jimmy Kimmel. The community: Dildo.
Now, I’m not surprised...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a periodical that lasted for almost eighty years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his father and continued the paper into the 1970’s. The following are excerpts from the Richmond County Record...
An ability I work to maintain is to be able to walk and to do so whenever it suits me.
A brisk walk, regardless of its distance, offers much for its participants. Walking, in...
As the federal Liberals try to stave-off more controversy as a result of the SNC Lavalin affair, the government does deserve credit for a wise expenditure of public funds.
On February 12 at the Petit de Grat campus of Université...
Arichat, 1935: We are now on the lower road, on the
water side, moving east at the store of A.D. Samson.
A building located on the west side of the A.D. Samson
store must at some...
Operation Share and Care would like to send a deep thank-you out to the entire Strait area community.
Your generous donations and support have made this Christmas season another great one! Through the efforts of our community members, students and...
Amid local and provincial attempts to fight problems in
the health care system, it was very disappointing to learn that two emergency departments
in the Strait area were closed a total of 1,664-hours during 2018-19.
According...