Four teams comprised the 1961 Richmond County Baseball League (RCBL): Petit de Grat Red Caps, River Bourgeois Tigers, Port Hawkesbury, and L’Ardoise Ramblers.
The rivalry between Petit de Grat and River Bourgeois was resumed. In a June 18 contest, the...
This has been a very tense, very divisive, very telling
week in Canada, to put it mildly.
I thought the country was divided when it came to the
federal election, but that was nothing in comparison...
The thrilling overtime win by the Cape Breton West Islanders in the 2017 TELUS Cup National Midget Championship on April 30 will be talked about for years to come.
Overcoming a 4-2 deficit heading into the third period, the Strait...
It is an absolutely distressing statistic that in 2019 Cape Breton Island (CBI) again nearly tripled the national average on consumer bankruptcy and accompanying consumer insolvency are more than double. Nationally, in 2018 and 2019, Canadian consumers...
This awareness program is in its sixth year and this year’s theme is, “Could ticks be there? Be tick aware!” The focus is on the growing geographical distribution of ticks in North America, building on last year’s...
Looking back over the decades, and indeed, centuries,
it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were common in the
Isle Madame area.
One of those names is Murphy. This surname was once
very...
The coronavirus looms over us, Canadian politics is in
turmoil, and Facebook posts
underscore the increasing divisions in our country, but – and I think this is a
big exception to the barrage of depressing news – Canadians love to...
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...
It was encouraging that Richmond Municipal Council was able to pass a balanced budget on time, and equally disheartening that this same elected body was unable to approve changes to its travel expense policy.
During a special meeting on April...
I’m a firm believer in hard work; in actual labour, putting in your hours and your nose to the grindstone.
We are born with a certain amount of talent and brains which can be molded and improved, but the factor...