As Canada Day has come and gone for another year, unfortunately the debate over whether to celebrate the birth of this nation has not.
As of press time, the remains of 1,287 people have...
The first missionary to visit Arichat was Father Bailly de Messein, a native of France serving in the Diocese of Quebec.
Bailly was replaced by Father Bourg who directed the parishioners to build a...
The provincial government could have done a better job communicating about their plans for accessing the border with New Brunswick, but for a group to protest closed borders, by closing a border, is absurd.
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905. He wrote Rivière Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated.
CHAPTER XV
The old “scow”
What was...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905. After his classical studies from 1922 to 1928 at the seminary at Trois Rivière, he spent three years at agricultural school at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere. Here he earned bachelors’ degrees...
It’s good to see the provincial government is willing to re-open now, and is considering the easing of more public health restrictions now that daily COVID-19 numbers remain low across Nova Scotia.
According to...
With the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ Conservation and Protection Branch admitting to “tensions” in this year’s lobster fishery, the question arises; what happens next?
According to press release issued by the Assembly of...
On November 29, 1927, two fishermen drowned 15 miles off Isle Madame. One was Neddie Deroche of Barrachois, the other was William Bowen of Rocky Bay.
Running before a gale, the two men were...
As daily numbers of COVID-19 continue to drop to more manageable levels across the province, steps have been taken to loosen public health restrictions.
Last week in-person classes resumed at all public and private...
Continuing west on the upper or high road was the St. John’s Anglican Church built in 1895 to replace the original, which was some 70 years old.
St. John’s Anglican Parish in Arichat had...