As of 1935 the M. B. MacNeil family were the caretakers of the courthouse. This second courthouse was built in 1848 under the supervision of architect and contractor Alexander MacDonald at a cost of $1,030. Some caretakers...
The very rules governing commercial fisheries around Atlantic Canada, can help First Nations communities gain a stronger foothold in the industry.
On March 3, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Bernadette Jordan announced that the...
Ephrem Boudreau wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated.
List of schooners built at River Bourgeois:
1891
Partners, 25 tons, Simon Goyetche
On March 5, Premier Iain Rankin announced a $3 million compensation fund to resolve cases that involve parties with competing claims and help speed up efforts under the Land Titles Initiative, which was established in 2017 to...
Looking back over the decades and, indeed, centuries, it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were common in this area. Two of those names that no longer holds a place here are Begin...
A proposed multi-purpose outdoor recreation park in Arichat will be an excellent use of space that has gone unused for far too long.
During Richmond Municipal Council’s committee of the whole on Feb. 9...
Transportation and communication in the history of Richmond County is predominantly the story of how the various communities maintained connection to the rest of the world by sea. This applied particularly to Isle Madame which had no...
After many Strait area patients lost their doctors in recent years, comes news that more people will be without a primary care physician.
In a Facebook post on Feb. 3., Dr. Steven DeRoche confirmed...
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 taken from the...
It was alarming to hear that the company in charge of the television system at the Strait-Richmond Hospital took six weeks to restore service.
On Dec. 12, it was confirmed that Health Hub Solutions...