Rodney’s Wish I was the 31st Wish for “We Are Young Association” Me (About 6-7 years old) After nearly 70 years of wondering and wishing what it would look like hovering in a helicopter over the city of Halifax a dream or wish has come. I have learned in life if you...
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 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...
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 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...
ISLANDSHISTORY.COM Presents BRIER ISLAND https://youtu.be/ws67uT9VSac
Naming a Ferry for Grand Passage Early in 2017 the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR) was about to take charge of the new ferry that was being built at A. F. Theriault shipyard in Meteghan River. The new ferry needed to be named....
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...
“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...
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...
In August 2014 there was a message that arrived at Freeport that was sent by a group of wrestlers from Ontario saying they were going to set-up on the Fish Point Wharf in late August and it sounded like they were willing to train Islanders. It also looked like they...
Dolores Claiborne Making the Movie Digby Courier; April 1994 Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer and some local stars in the movie “Dolores Claiborne” A flurry of excitement surrounded Digby Neck and...
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...
Jan. 30th 1925- Jan. 28th 2021 A good friend passed in January, after a full life. He came to our Island to practise as our Doctor from June 1951 till July 1956. We kept in contact over the years and he wrote a book called "The Island Doctor" . He came to the Islands...
This movie is a 8mm film of 1976 so the quality is not that good. There is no talking but I have tried to explain what this disaster was all about. Just click on the link below. Thanks for viewing. https://youtu.be/Eys7IhaQno4
Just Click on the link below to start the movie. It is around 1 hour & 20 min. long. Enjoy https://youtu.be/ZrJwvtcqQH4