I never thought we’d be scraping the bottom of the barrel like this. While Nova Scotian forests once yielded European fleets and world class lumber, today they have been degraded so completely that, in our desperation to continue the roller-coaster ride of clearcut forestry, we’ve begun chopping down the scraps and torching them for electricity, […]
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Scott Falconer and Charlie MacMillan sailed their boats from Pictou Island to the mainland on July 16, 1962. They transported two boatloads of lumber back to Pictou Island for the construction of Scott and Rita’s new home. Duncan and Roy MacCallum along with Scott began construction of the new three-bedroom house on July 30th. Many […]
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Probably my first experiences in seeing changes taking place within the local fisheries was with rope in the late 1950s or early 60s. Fishermen up to those years used a cotton rope for all purposes. Around the late 1950s or early 60s, a much lighter plastic rope was introduced. Lobster trap trawls usually require a […]
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