Pjila’si-Welcome; Mi’kmaq Velkomin-Welcome; Viking Beceber-Welcome; Portuguese Bienvenu-Welcome; French Welcome; English There is no archaeological evidence that Nova Scotia was inhabited between 10,000 and 5000 years...
OUR MEDICAL CRISIS
Our Medical Crisis The picture I chose to represent this blog, is a piece of glass Leta and I made for the "Dalhousie University, as a fund raiser for under-funded medical students. This “Medical Crisis” that we are in...
Arts & Artist of Long and Brier Island
Artist of Long and Brier Island (Past & Present) When I started thinking about writing my 150th blog, I realized I should write about “ Arts and Artist”. This is a subject I knew something about but isn’t written or...
LAST BLACKSMITH SHOP ON OUR ISLANDS (The Movie)
Last Blacksmith on the Islands (The Movie) This is the history of the last Blacksmith and the last Blacksmith Shop on Long and Brier Island. There has been three generations of Blacksmiths working in this Blacksmith Shop. Blacksmith Shop at The Lazy Day Farm Tiverton...
OUR ISLANDS FIRST GARBAGE COLLECTION
OUR ISLANDS FIRST GARBAGE COLLECTION Since the arrival of our Island’s early settlers, there has always been someone that would stand up and solve our problems. ...
1960’s SEAFARING HISTORY (Movie)
1960’s Seafaring History (Movie) Miss T, Summer of 1971 The following movie is from the 1960’s that was filmed by Clayton Titus, son of William Arthur (Art) Titus. Clayton filmed this movie with a 8 mm camera in the 1960’s during his work in the herring fishery. For...
THE “LAST WEIR”
The Last Weir Most of the information regarding the land used by the Mi’kmaq on the Islands area occurs after the settling of the Europeans mainly because that is when the history of our area began to be written down. A few explorers, such as Champlain and Lescarbot...
THE EVOLUTION OF LOBSTER FISHING LONG & BRIER ISLAND
Being A Lobster Fisherman on Long & Brier Islands Foreword: Before starting this blog, I would like to apologize for not including all the names of the lobster fishermen of Long and Brier Island. All names should be included because this is their story....
Long & Brier Islands Internet History
Islands Internet History Before we start our history of Long and Brier internet I will give a brief history of what came first “the computer”. The first computers were designed for calculations. The first electronic computer was built as a result of world war ll....
Long and Brier Island Whale Watching History
LONG & BRIER ISLAND WHALE WATCHING HISTORY No one has done a short history of our whale watching here on Long & Brier Island, now is the time. I know there will be mistakes in this, I am hoping that some of the Whale Watching boat owners will send me...
Rum Running & Prohibition
Rum Running has always be going on here around our Islands. Ever since the early settlers arrived and even before confederation, Nova Scotians and Americans have transported rum back and forth from one country to the other, trying to avoid duties and taxes. I have...
Balancing Rock (The Story)
“Balancing Rock” Basalt rock is cooled and hardened lava. Lava contracts (shrinks) as it cools. Cracks can form, usually in a hexagonal shape, to relieve stress caused by the contracting. This often creates columnar basalt – columns - like this rock on Brier Island...
Long and Brier Island Population
Long & Brier Island Population The Ups and Downs The Mi’Kmaq were living, hunting and fishing on our Islands first. They had been here for over 4000 years. There is no way to have a count on how many, as there was no records to track. The tribe was known as...
Sinking of The “S.S. Robert G. Cann”
“S.S. Robert G. Cann” Before the 1950’s the roads around these coastal communities was mostly impassable, and if you wanted to go any distance it was better to travel by water. Right from the founding of our Islands, residents travelled by passenger...
1936 The Movie “The Tiny Tattler”
I have already done a history on the Tiny Tattler for this site but not on the movie. Central Grove in Digby County published Canada’s tiniest newspaper between 1933 and 1943. Every Thursday for ten years-from 1933 to...
1816 “The Year With Out a Summer”
In 1816 there were two newspapers that came to our Islands. Rev. Walter Greenwood wrote in the “History of Freeport” the two papers that the Islanders were able to subscribe to at that time were the” Portland News” from the United States, and the “Christian...
Wreck of SS Aikaterini T. 26 lost
Before we start the story about the sinking of the SS Aikaterini T. and the loss of twenty-six lives we will describe what we know about the Ship. It was a Greek cargo steel ship that was carrying coal. The ship was built in 1917 at Alloa Greece, and was called the...
Predicted Saxby’s Gale 1869
Saxby’s Gale, October 1869 In 1863 an Amateur Astronomer named Steven Martin Saxby wrote a book called “Saxby’s Weather System”. The Saxby gale of 1869 brought death and destruction to Maine, New Brunswick and western Nova Scotia in particular. Still, after 152 years,...
Mi’Kmaq at Long Island
Mi’Kmaq living on Long Island for over 2500 years Most of the information regarding the land used by the Mi’kmaq on the Islands area occurs after the settling of the Europeans mainly because that is when the history of our area began to be written down. A few...
Lost Priest on Long Island
A visit by Samuel De Champlain Lost Priest on Long Island Digby Neck and Long Island are first mentioned in literature by the French explorer Samuel De Champlain. In an account of his explorations of the Bay of Fundy in 1604 he stated that he was near an island...