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Roots & Folks

I Just Dive In

  • 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...

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Treating your inner self

  • By Philip Moscovitch
  • Header photo by Scott Serfas
Relax, recharge, reflect and re-energise

By Any Other Name

  • By Terry Punch
  • Photography By Terry Punch
  • Header photo by Unsplash/Viktor Forgacs
WHEN PEOPLE are trying to discover their ancestry, they can be misled sometimes by naming practices.

A toxic legacy

  • By Jim Gourlay
  • Header photo by Scott Leslie
Why is Nova Scotia the only place on earth not recovering from acid rain?

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” 

  • 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,...