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...
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. ...
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 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...
Poisoning at Boars Head Lighthouse
This is a story of the first lighthouse keeper at Boars Head, Tiverton, Long Island and his family, and how he lost six members of his family including his wife to lead poisoning. Besides living in isolation in a remote area this family suffered the most severe and...
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...
Training for War on The Islands
World War 1 July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 This is a story about the men who enlisted and trained on our Island’s for “The Great World War of 1914-1918” The Canadian Parliament didn’t choose to go to war in 1914. The country’s foreign affairs were guided in London....
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...
Island’s Marked and Unmarked Graves
When I started going through my information that I had gathered up for the blog “Marked and Unmarked Graves of Long & Brier Island” I started thinking of how long people have been here on the Islands. I know the Mi’kmaq have been here for over 2500 years, and...
MV “Tryme” and Lawrence Elliott Sr.
In 1980 I was working in Tiverton for Small Bros. in their machine shop, as part of my job I would work on Small Bros. boats and this is where I met Lawrence Elliott Sr., one of the dragger captains. One day Lawrence was in the machine shop and told me he had...
Old Home Week/July 30-Aug 5 1973
This is the biggest event the Islands ever put on. There was between five and six thousand visitors that came to our Island that week. In 1973 our ferry was the "Petit Passage II",( a steel scow that was adapted with outboard motors). The previous year it was put in...
Respect of The Sea
This blog is about Islanders that have found that no one can control the sea and it can be a dangerous place. Some of our Islanders have been caught out when the weather has changed suddenly. This is about six episodes where Islanders have found themselves in trouble...
Vaughn Lent’s/Ellsworth Outhouse’s Store
Vaughn Lent’s /Ellsworth Outhouse's Store And how these buildings get used over and over again Do you remember in the 40’s and 50’s going to our little mom-and-pop stores on the Islands? Islanders never bought their groceries off the islands in those days, what they...
Alms House\Poor House
Alms House\Poor House One of Islanders greatest fears or thoughts is this building “Alms House or Poor House most commonly called”. If you were to have the occasion to see this building you would know that you had not made in the struggle for life. Once there you knew...
Big Storm Tiverton 1930
I tried to research this storm of Feb. 16, 1930 but the newspaper issue of "The Digby Courier" for the whole year of 1930 is missing and The Tiny Tattler didn't start till 1933. This is the only articles I have been able to find to date: The Digby Courier Feb. 16,...
The Long Island Golf Club
The Field of Dreams As I was sitting down thinking this over to what to put here about the golf course at Tiverton and the thought that kept coming back in my mind was “The Field of Dreams”. The Field of dreams was a movie that came out in 1989, where the person had a...
Temperance Hall Tiverton
Temperance Hall Built July 1877 Painting Hall Sept 1904 Sold July 1936
Odd Fellows Hall Tiverton
Odd Fellows Hall Tiverton Built Aug. 1928