Having secured adequate funding for his fledgling school, Bishop MacKinnon realized that the success of this venture now rested on procuring a competent teaching staff.
He convened a group at Arichat called “the friends...
Despite the need, this region will not be receiving new Emergency Health Services (EHS) vehicles.
Under a one-year pilot project called the Medical Transport Service, the province announced on November 24 that it purchased...
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...
Although his recovery will take time, and he is still suffering the effects of his injury, Anthony MacDonald’s story of resilience and the community’s response are inspiring in every sense of the word.
A...
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...
HALIFAX: With the numbers of new COVID-19 cases rising, the provincial government has introduced new public health measures.
During a media briefing on November 20 in Halifax, the province announced new province-wide requirements that...
Nova Scotia’s Official Opposition is pounding the governing Liberals over their decision to move the Outpatient Withdrawal Management Program (also known as daytox) from the Strait-Richmond Hospital last spring.
Months after it was quietly...
Diseases, which have all but been forgotten, were common and at times fatal 100 years ago: diphtheria, appendicitis, pneumonia, yellow jaundice, and tuberculosis were the main ones.
At one point, a county nurse traveled...
Around the time of the American War of Independence there were those who maintained their loyalty to Great Britain and did not support a violent revolution. These “Tories” also referred to as Loyalists found themselves in a...
Almost 100 years after World War I - a bloody war bookended by a deadly global flu – the world is once again plagued by another invisible enemy.
But this time, there is no...