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Roots & Folks

Iron Men and All That

  • By Deborah Carr
  • Header photo by Nick Hawkins Photography
Next time you enjoy a plate of fish and chips, give some thought to how it got there

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Historian and broadcaster Dan Snow and archeologist Dr. Sarah Parcak at Point Rosee, NL.

Second Viking Settlement

  • By Ryan Van Horne
  • Photography By Freddie Clare/BBC
  • Header photo by Lindsay Bird/CBC
Point Rosee is a beautiful spot for a hike, and a partridgeberry patch, but it seems an unlikely spot for a Norse settlement.

Airwaves Ambassadors

  • By Deborah Carr
In a world of Facebook, Facetime and Instagram, a 117-year-old technology still has ardent fans
“Compared to back in the home country, this is still the place of opportunities.... All you’ve got to do is be able to identify them. They’re out there all the time for everybody.”

Bold Pioneers

  • By Quentin Casey
  • Header photo by Sobeys Inc.
When Pete Luckett was a boy, growing up in Nottingham, England, there was a store in the centre of the city called Burton’s of Smithy Row. It was a grocery...

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.

Life on the Land

  • 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.”

The amphibious mink

  • By Bob Bancroft
Related to weasels, these fascinating creatures also can indicate pollution levels  

  • By Don Scott
“I get annoyed when I hear people say nobody uses libraries anymore”  
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 Cora Nelson with Nick Looker
A letter sent long ago by a young serviceman connects generations  
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 Jim Gourlay and Annie Jolicoeur
The annual global road kill of wildlife is mind boggling: what’s being done?  
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 Scott Leslie
A birds-eye view of Atlantic Canada’s streams and wetlands

  • 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 Sara Jewell
A photographer is drawn to capture abandoned buildings in pictures

  • By Darcy Rhyno
  • Photography By Duncan de Young
  • Header photo by Bigstock/Kasia Bialasiewicz
Even as he was surviving two battles with leukemia and a life-threatening infection that put him on life-support for a month with a two per cent chance of...