Perhaps the earliest attempt at organized schooling came from Petit de Grat in 1810 when the first school was built at Alderney Point on what later became the property of Bernard David. Mr. Latimer, a Jerseyman from...
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...
Golf developers who already established two 18-hole golf courses, are now eyeing another location along the western coastline of Cape Breton Island, for the second time.
Cabot Cape Breton, which operates the Cabot Links...
The main point of contention between a company proposing a green hydrogen operation in the Strait area, and those with questions and criticisms of the project, surround what is considered green energy.
Last week...
The name County of Richmond is prominent in the annals of ship building in this region.
In 1875, Isidore LeBlanc commissioned a 410-ton three-masted barque, the County of Richmond, “the largest vessel produced in...
Most people recognize the surname Cavanagh and invariably associate it with the St. Peter’s Cavanaghs, particularly the politicians who gained fame as the first and second Roman Catholics to sit in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
It was disheartening to hear that Antigonish RCMP has an open file on complaints from Antigonish town and county surrounding the vitriol directed at elected officials by some members of the public.
More than...
While it has been contentious, and a number of residents in the town and county are opposed, the reality is that the two municipal units are consolidating.
Despite growing opposition in the weeks and...
Looking back over the decades, and indeed, centuries, it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were common in this area.
One of those names that still holds a place here...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905. He wrote Rivière Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated.
The era of the motorized boat never really came to an end despite...