Cape Breton Crab and lobster fishermen affected by the installation of the Maritime Link will receive compensation. Emera, Nova Scotia Powers parent company, has agreed to compensate a group of 60 fishermen affected by the closure of fishing grounds during the installation. The laying of 170 kilometer long cables linking Point Aconi, Cape Breton to Newfoundland required a large swath of ocean floor to be declared off limits to fishermen. The terms of the compensation deal have not been released. The Maritime Link project, expected to be completed in December, will bring electricity from Newfoundland’s Muskrat Falls Hydro project to Nova Scotia.
Category: Kentville
Statue to Honour Wolfville Woman who Aided Allies in WW2
A statue honouring a local woman who help shield allied airmen from the Nazi’s during the second world war was unveiled in Wolfville on Friday. Mona Parsons was born in Middleton and raised in Wolfville before marrying a dutchman and moving to the Netherlands before the second world war. During the Nazi occupation she was caught providing aid and shelter to Allied airmen downed behind enemy lines. A Nazi court sentenced Parsons to death before an appeal converted her sentence to life in a german labour camp. She escaped following an allied attack on the camps in 1945. A statue depicting Parson’s joy over the liberation of netherlands was unveiled in front of Wolfville’s post office during a ceremony on Friday.