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Celebrated folklorist Helen Creighton (seated far left, with her high-tech portable recorder) spent her life documenting Nova Scotian songs. In the early 1950s, she…
An ambitious project to build an oversized railway to carry ships along the New Brunswick/Nova Scotia border from the Northumberland Strait to the Bay…
A tapestry titled ‘The Saxby Gale’ from the ‘New Brunswick Legends’ series, designed by Michael J. McEwing and woven by Ivan H. Crowell. (Provincial…
In 1949, a little Canadian island off of the coast of Nova Scotia declared itself to be its own country. Calling itself The Principality…
The Vikings called it the Kraken. The Bible called it Leviathan. But today we think these fearsome, mysterious sea monsters were giant squids. By…
The strange and isolated natural harbour of Dark Harbour, Grand Manan has been home to some unusual characters, including the famously enigmatic "Dark Harbour…
We’re always taught in school that ever since European colonists arrived in what is now Canada, that it was always a colony of either…
In 1906 two young children disappeared from their front lawns in the tiny village of Cape Tormentine. A reporter comes in from the big…
The Lake Utopia Medallion, now found in the New Brunswick Museum N597 In 1863, a recent Scottish immigrant was wandering through the stark and…
A postcard depicting the Bay of Fundy, looking at Wolfe Point. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick P46\912 What does “Fundy” mean? Where does the…
Crowds at the Saint John Exhibition checking out The Red Devil Provincial Archives of New Brunswick P60/214 On a clear Autumn day in 1912,…
Photgraph taken by Mark Pulsifier during his wildlife research on Isle Haute in the 1980s. In the middle of the Bay of Fundy, between…