Roots & Folks

‘To see ourselves as we are’

  • By Harvey Sawler
  • Photography By Taryn Wallace
  • Header photo by Nigel Markham
Labrador’s Them Days magazine celebrates 50 years of telling the region’s stories

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The many lives of Alan Doyle

  • By Shelley Cameron-McCarron
  • Photography By Louise Vessey/TTH Media
  • Header photo by Steve Smith/Visionfire
The musician and author treads the boards in a popular musical

A time to reflect

  • By Trevor J. Adams
  • Header photo by Trevor J. Adams
A new book by Ken Hynes shares the stories of the Nova Scotians who answered their country’s call in the First World War

Reconsidering bad photos

  • By Steve Smith
  • Photography By Steve Smith/VisionFire
Time and sentiment can turn a technical miss into a holiday treasure

‘We could never not do it’   

  • By Darcy Rhyno
Getting to know Suzy Atwood, organizer of a famed lobster-trap Christmas tree  

How to celebrate the holidays like a Saltscaper

  • By Vernon Oickle
  • Photography By Bryanna Chapeskie
Belsnickling, Apuknajit, first-footing, and Tibb’s Eve

Off to do the thing

  • By Alec Bruce
  • Photography By Colin Cook
On staying curious and moving forward

  • By Steve Smith
  • Photography By Steve Smith/VisionFire
To shoot a historic business, our photographer dusts off a camera that’s more than a century old

  • By Denise Flint
  • Header photo by Steve Smith/Visionfire
From aquamation to mourning jewelry, death can be as distinctive as the deceased

  • By Harvey Sawler
A P.E.I. centenarian shares a snapshot of a different era

  • By Jeremy Hull
  • Photography By Wendy Cox
As sea levels continue to rise, endangering Atlantic Canada’s coasts and a vital link between provinces, people call out for government leadership and look...

  • By Steve Smith
  • Photography By Steve Smith/VisionFire
Two passionate artists make a brilliant picture

  • By Alec Bruce
  • Header photo by Colin Cook
A formative experience in America shapes the writer in unexpected ways

  • By Alec Bruce
How one man is uniting Nova Scotians around the globe

  • By Kevin Yarr
  • Photography By Steve Smith/VisionFire
Trying to understand Hans Wendt’s paintings may be the wrong approach

  • By Vernon Oickle
  • Photography By Bryanna Chapeskie
Any time’s a great time for an East Coast adventure

  • By Darcy Rhyno
When war raged and American raiders menaced coastal communities, ordinary citizens became privateers and defended the Maritimes