The Halifax Explosion
December 6, 1917 dawned clear and sunny in Halifax. At around 7:30 am the navy opened the gate in the nets at the entrance to the harbour. The second of several vessels headed up the harbour was the...
View ArticleCape Breton Regional Municipality
In the 1990’s eight (8) communities, Glace Bay, New Waterford, Dominion, Louisbourg, Sydney, North Sydney, Sydney Mines and the County of Cape Breton were amalgamated into one community, called the...
View ArticleThe National Flag of Canada is 50 years old!
The National Flag of Canada, consists of a white square at its centre flanked on both sides by a a red field with a stylized, 11-pointed red maple leaf atop the white centre. The flag was designed by...
View ArticleThe Irish Monument Park Foundation
Walk to the Stone organizers optimistic about Memorial Park initiative after meeting Mayor Coderre For 150 years, Montreal’s Irish community has joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians as they remember...
View ArticleHALIFAX EXPLOSION
As World War I raged in Europe, the port of Halifax was filled with ships carrying troops, relief supplies, and munitions across the Ocean. On Dec. 6, 1917 the Norwegian vessel Imo left its mooring in...
View Article“Father Hughie’s” 90th birthday
Posted on February 4, 2015 Adam Cooke, The Port Hawkesbury Report CREIGNISH- Days removed from his 90th birthday, a veteran Roman Catholic parish priest has no retirement plans and says he would follow...
View ArticleTHE ORIGIN OF THE NAME STUBBERT
THE NAME STUBBERT Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation known in England as Poll Tax. Throughout the following centuries the spelling and variations of the original...
View ArticleSir John A. MacDonald Quotes
“Let us be English or let us be French, but above all let us be Canadian.” “A British subject I was born. A British subject I will die.” “Give me better wood and I will build a better cabinet.”...
View ArticleScots were Irish before they were Scots!
During the fifth century a group of Irish settlers left Ireland and formed a settlement in the land of the Picts in the Highlands. They called their land Delraida. The area is now known as Argyllshire....
View ArticleWere they the good old days?!!
In 1824 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Norman MacLeod suggested the Gaelic bible should be printed with clearer and larger print. He was told to advise his Highland friends to get spectacles. This shows the...
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