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Roots & Folks

Community Connections

  • By Reta MacDonald, as told to Philip Moscovitch
  • Photography By Philip Moscovitch
  • Header photo by Unsplash/Viktor Forgacs
You could call Reta MacDonald of Ebenezer, PEI a “joiner.” At 82, she is outgoing and remains committed to the many community organizations she belongs to. A...

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The mind of a codfish

  • By Erin Woodrow
  • Photography By Bigstock/PiLens
The unique homing instincts in the Newfoundland psyche
Bob Osborne “wanted to create an ambience unlike anywhere else,” with Corn Hill Nursery

A perennial success

  • By Janet Wallace
  • Photography By Janet Wallace
  • Header photo by Cornhill Nursery
During the last 35 years, Corn Hill Nursery has blossomed into a vibrant enterprise outside Petitcodiac, NB. Meanwhile many other independent nurseries in...

Battling ‘the Spanish lady’

  • By by David Goss
  • Header photo by HAROLD WRIGHT/ SAINT JOHN HERITAGE
The Spanish flu and its Atlantic Canada connections

Sailmaker to the world

  • By Anne Marie Beattie
  • Photography By Knickle’s Studio & Gallery
A well-known story told from a different vantage point

Getting to know Mark Arendz

  • By Darcy Rhyno
  • Photography By Scott Grant
“I wanted to give back” 

The Importance Of Place

  • By Terry Punch
  • Header photo by Bigstock/dbvirago
Among the most frequently asked questions by genealogists are the three Ws: “Who? When? Where?” On the face of it these seem to require less explaining than...

Amy and Verena grow between 40 and 50 different types of vegetables, including yellow squash and eight varieties of beets and carrots.

  • By Janet Wallace
  • Photography By Janet Wallace
  • Header photo by Janet Wallace
“AFTER WE MOVED to the Island,” recounts Amy Smith, “an elderly neighbour—he was so sweet—listened to our plans and shook his head sadly.”

  • By Bob Bancroft
Related to weasels, these fascinating creatures also can indicate pollution levels  
Wadih Fares in front of the Trillium building in downtown Halifax, NS.

  • By Quentin Casey
  • Photography By Jackson Productions Inc.
  • Header photo by W.M. Fares Group
THERE’S AN ONGOING perception, in some quarters, that immigrants “steal” jobs from local folks.

  • By Don Scott
“I get annoyed when I hear people say nobody uses libraries anymore”  
Dr. Siyaram Pandey, a biochemist from the University of Windsor, has developed a concentrated dandelion root extract that has been approved for trial by Health Canada.

  • By Gillian Hobbes
  • Photography By Gillian Hobbs
Pity the poor dandelions. Long considered a weed, dandelions are despised by many and often destroyed as soon as they dare mar the green perfection of our...

  • By Cora Nelson with Nick Looker
A letter sent long ago by a young serviceman connects generations  
Will Knight

  • By Bob Wakeham
  • Photography By Bob Wakeham
  • Header photo by Imperial War Museums (Q1688)
Joe Judge, Will Knight and Norm Coultas huddled against the muddy wall of a trench near the French community of Beaumont-Hamel, dreading orders they knew...

  • By Jim Gourlay and Annie Jolicoeur
The annual global road kill of wildlife is mind boggling: what’s being done?  

  • By Jon Tattrie
  • Photography By Jackson Productions Inc.
  • Header photo by Unsplash/Viktor Forgacs
It’s the law of the jungle: wild animals are born, and they die. But a brigade of Atlantic Canadians offers them safe haven when they’re somewhere in between,...

  • By Scott Leslie
A birds-eye view of Atlantic Canada’s streams and wetlands