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HAWKESBURY: Jacob Keagan of the Strait Pirates and Finn Reeves of the Valley
Maple Leafs were named Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League Players of the Month
for their respective divisions.
Keagan was
a clear cut winner for...
WEEKLY STATS
Men’s High Single
Matt MacDonald 146
Gerard Proctor 136
Mike Marryatt 128
Men’s High Triple
Gerard Proctor...
In this column, we are going to revisit the porcupine
(Mi’kmaq: matues) and its colourful quills.
In particular, we are going to look at the sources of
violet (nisqunanamu’k) and blue (musqunamu’k) pigments. The red (mekwe’k)...
I probably won’t say anything here you don’t already
know in your bones, but here goes - the banks of the world financing fossil
fuels has been climatically imprudent for some time, and is now officially
immoral.
Sesame Street
has turned 50, and if that doesn’t make you feel old, I’m not sure what will.
I’m of the Big Bird era, but I’ve watched my share of
episodes over the years courtesy of...
November 20, 1907: Arthur Poirier, widower married
Sarah Jeanne Goyetche, daughter of Jean Goyetche and Angélique Bourque,
witnesses Jacques Goyetche and Emilie Goyetche
January 22, 1908: Pierre A. Richard, son of Pierre
Richard and Célina Boucher married...
Dear Santa:
I’m sorry it’s been awhile since I’ve written. I think
I was 11 the last time I wrote to you. That’s a shame in and of itself,
especially since you were so diligent in...
After years of political turmoil, the last thing the
voters of Richmond County need - with a municipal election nearing and a
provincial election in the not-too-distant-future - is more upheaval.
Unfortunately, that is exactly what...
In a recent column, I expounded on the encouraging fact
that Canada’s electrical grid derives 67 per cent of its juice from renewable
sources, chiefly hydroelectric, wind and solar in descending order. If you
include nuclear, which is carbon free...
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 and...