By: Yvonne Fox
The Official Project Commencement Ceremony marking the start of construction on the Canso Causeway was held on September 16, 1952.
This was after many, many years of...
February 18, 1901: Fidele Langlois, widower of Marie Anne Fougere, married Marie Jeanne Pertus, daughter of Jean Pertus and Adele Benoit, witnesses were Jacques Fougere and Louise Pertus
February 18, 1901: Marin Langlois, son...
StFX University issued a surprising decision recently by announcing it will welcome students back to campus in September.
Even though every other post-secondary institution across Nova Scotia has announced they are moving to on-line...
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...
A report released last week by the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM) is providing a real glimpse at how COVID-19 is affecting local municipalities.
The report states that Nova Scotia’s municipalities are facing...
In the parish of River Bourgeois, there was only one resident doctor early in the century.
The doctors were in St. Peter’s. There was Dr. Bissett, son of “Old Bissett” from River Bourgeois, next...
Local demonstrations joined the global call for change in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in police custody last month in Minnesota.
On June 5, Sasha Repko and her brother Talen walked from...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) has announced there will be no programs that will be fully on-campus for the 2020-21 academic year and StFX is scheduled to make an announcement on Friday.
Green Island is located at the northeast entrance to Chedabucto Bay and the Strait of Canso, a busy sea-lane in the “days of wooden ships and iron men.”
It is also an area of...
As if there hasn’t been enough loss recently, the Strait area received yet another blow via the sudden, unexpected death of Silver Donald Cameron.
An award-winning author, environmental activist and long-time local volunteer, Cameron...