Arts & Culture

Carlton Munroe, a giant promoter of the East Coast music scene, is being remembered as a fun loving family man — a devoted husband and great father of three children — and a friend to many.

Some of our finest dining rooms have historically been found in the inns with which the Maritimes abounds. One of the best known was the Sword and Anchor in Halifax, on South Park Street where the Park Victoria apartment building now stands.

Let’s face it, visitors don’t come to Halifax for the view of Fenwick Tower.

Talented crooner H. James MacPherson was described in his hometown of Antigonish as the Voice of God, a reputation burnished after he sang for Pope John Paul II.

Nova Scotia in Film
a periodic examination of films with Nova Scotia connections

Hobo with a Shotgun

Consider Halifax’s Barrington Street. If there is a street that speaks of history in this city, it is Barrington Street.

Michelin Corporate Foundation is donating $250,000 to the 2018 Special Olympics National Games to be held from July 31 to Aug. 4 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish.

On Thursday evening, Halifax’s Dress for Success organization held it’s seventh annual Kick it Up! fundraiser.

PROLOGUE – AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY from the new book 6-12-17 The Halifax Explosion

In early December 1917—during the fourth year of the world’s first truly global war—a series of seemingly unrelated events over the period of a few days culminated in the appearance of two ships at Halifax Harbour.