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Roots & Folks

Games People Played

  • By Gail MacMillan
  • Photography By Derek Sarty
  • Header photo by Unsplash/Viktor Forgacs
ACTIVE imaginations and few props have been the backbone of many a game in Atlantic Canada.

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Sir Samuel Cunard, a Halifax-born entrepreneur who “dreamed of an ocean railway.”

Sir Samuel Cunard of Halifax

  • By Allan Lynch
  • Photography By Cunard
“My Lords, ladies, and gentlemen; welcome to this voyage of the Queen Mary 2. And it is a voyage, not a cruise. The Queen Mary 2 is an ocean liner, not a...
Sometimes, tea was improved with a little “medicine” to ward off the chill.

Nebooktook (in the woods)

  • By Jim Gourlay
  • Photography By Barb Bower, Upper Ohio, Shelburne County
  • Header photo by Charlton family Photo Collection
It’s titled Nebooktook (a Mi’kmaq word meaning “in the woods”) and this heavily illustrated work is Nova Scotia best-selling author Mike Parker’s 17th book in 29...
Bryan Dyck and Shannon Jones stand in their garden at Broadfork Farm, near Joggins, NS.

Old values define a modern philosophy

  • By Janet Wallace
  • Photography By Janet Wallace
  • Header photo by Broadfork Farm
It’s October and the woods are in full colour. After crossing the New Brunswick-Nova Scotia border, I’ve been driving back roads—roughly following tidal...
Braganza and Harold Killam test the new door.

Restoring Cofan Cabin

  • By Brian Braganza
  • Photography By Jim Foster
  • Header photo by Province of NS
Our morning commute is a 20-minute paddle across Sand Beach Lake from our camp on the pine esker overlooking the Shelburne River’s Jim Charles Meadow. It’s early...
Sisters Betty Weston (l) and Freda Kennie (r) recall a magical childhood on Grindstone Island.

The lightkeeper’s daughters

  • By Deborah Carr
  • Header photo by Betty Weston and Freda Kennie
Grindstone Island. Named for the sandstone once quarried from its cliffs and reefs, this tiny Bay of Fundy island marks the spot where the salty waters of...
Once the tea is steeped, the time for leisure is at hand.

North woods elixir

  • By Cary Rideout
  • Photography By Lorain Ebbett-Rideout
Crouching low, I touched the lit match to the ragged white bark stripped off a birch earlier for just this purpose and watched as the flames licked upward...

  • By Sandra Phinney
  • Photography By Sandra Phinney
When Helen Opie was four, she stepped into a rowboat. “My mother tied a long rope to a bolt in the transom and shoved me away from the waves where I rowed...

  • By Darcy Rhyno
  • Photography By Gordon Photographic Ltd.
  • Header photo by Bigstock/Dimanchik
Abbie Michalik worked 34 years in Cape Breton’s coal mines. For the past 24 years, visitors to the Miners Museum in Glace Bay have listened to his stories of...
Alice & Bob anchored at Hampton.

  • By Bob Bancroft
  • Photography By Janet Ratliffe
  • Header photo by Alice Reed
I first visited the Kennebecasis River years ago, after accepting an invitation to give a wildlife talk in Hampton, New Brunswick. During that weekend the...

  • By Terry Punch
We mortals attach some sort of cachet to families that are, or claim to be, people who have lived in a certain community for time out of mind. You hear...
Andy MacLean, longtime Martock employee.

  • By Quentin Casey
  • Photography By Quentin Casey
  • Header photo by bigstock/Andriy Maygutyak
It’s December 6 and Ski Martock Road is bare and the surrounding woods are brown and grey. There’s not a flake of snow on the ground.

  • By Darcy Rhyno
  • Photography By Rob Blanchard Photo UNB
  • Header photo by Unsplash/Viktor Forgacs
AS DEPUTY director of The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, Lee Windsor takes every...

  • By Jodi DeLong
  • Photography By Abbyshot Clothiers
My inner geek is rejoicing. If this isn’t heaven, it must be pretty close. At least for a science fiction nerd.

  • By Terry Punch
  • Header photo by Unsplash/Viktor Forgacs
ANYONE READING historical publications will encounter places that cannot be found in a modern atlas. Some can be tracked down easily because the place was...
Each cutting board made by Larch Wood reveals the varied gradients of the tree’s growth, revealing a beautiful pattern and making each one unique.

  • By Shelley Cameron-McCarron
  • Photography By Larch Wood Canada
The international success of Larch Wood Canada—Cape Breton Island makers of coveted handcrafted, heirloom cutting boards revered by foodies and sold...

  • By Darcy Rhyno
  • Photography By Kharen Hill
  • Header photo by Unsplash/Viktor Forgacs
THE IRREPRESSIBLE Allan Hawco produces, writes and stars in “Republic of Doyle”—now starting its third season and airing in 96 countries—a CBC TV comedy-drama...