January 31, 1916: Joseph Marchand, son of Abram Marchand, married Marie Bertina Thibeau, daughter of Edouard Thibeau, witnesses Henri Boudreau and Clara Marchand
February15, 1916: Amedée Goyètche, son of Norbert Goyètche, married Marie Emma Boudreau, daughter of William D. Boudreau,...
I wanted a Cabbage Patch Kid so badly in 1984.
And not just regular, kid-level ‘want’, I mean I shed tears over this thing, crying to my parents about how I had to have one. I don’t ever remember asking...
Who would make up the faces of a Geeky Mount Rushmore?
For reference, Mount Rushmore is a federal park in which American presidents are carved out of the face of a mountain. When people who aren’t from America ask me...
When Muppet master Jim Henson died unexpectedly in 1990, I braced myself for the concept that Kermit the Frog, a major part of my childhood and adolescence, wasn’t going to be a part of my life anymore.
I didn’t know...
A contest for new businesses has the potential to not only help entrepreneurs but improve the local ecomomy.
On July 1, the Eastern-Strait Regional Enterprise Network (ESREN) and the Town of Port Hawkesbury launched “Start Up Port Hawkesbury,” a contest...
MULGRAVE: The hunt for a new Chief Administrative Office (CAO) is on.
Mulgrave’s acting CAO Kevin Matheson said council recently agreed to start the recruitment process to find the person to replace him. Matheson, who took the job in mid-November,...
Six o’clock in the morning on the streets of Venice, Italy, a strange sound coming behind me caught my attention. A man marching, carrying and playing some sort of bagpipe came into view. Under his arm, a large inflated...
People have been making thoughtless, insensitive, sometimes stupid statements since long before the Internet was even invented, but never more than since it has been.
Some of the finest examples come from Backfire-ers, as I like to call them. These...
Well, it is happening again. For the third time in 15 years, a new Spiderman film series began over the weekend. Relatively unknown (or at least he was before Captain America: Civil War came out) UK actor Tom Holland...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905. After his classical studies from 1922 to 1928 at the seminary at Trois Riviere, he spent three years at agricultural school at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere. Here he earned bachelors’ degrees in arts...