Protesters used a tractor trailer on Saturday to block a road being used for the Cape Breton Highland Park moose cull. Denis Day told the Cape Breton Post he parked the trailer to block park wardens from using a road off the Cabot Trail near North Mountain but that other traffic was being let through. Day eventually moved the truck after the RCMP threatened more serious charges but he told the post he had plans to return with the truck. Parks Canada says the moose cull is necessary as the growing population is decimating the local forest and destroying plant life that other wildlife depend on.
Category: Amherst
New Digby County Ferry Christened
A new Digby County Ferry was christened on Saturday, named after a local woman and her fight to save her home nearly two hundred years ago. The new Ferry, ‘Margaret’s Justice’, is named after Brier Island’s Margaret Davis. In 1828 a stranger, taking advantage of Davis’s illiteracy and poor english claimed her home as his own. The 63-year-old Davis walked 225 kilometers to Halifax to plead her case and save her home before making the long trek back home again. The new Ferry, with crosses between Freeport and Westport, was christened at the Westport Ferry Terminal on Brier Island.