Podcasts about Louisbourg

Cette semaine à Histoire de passer le temps, Pierre-Luc Noël nous fait le récit de la Forteresse de Louisbourg, située à l'entrée du fleuve Saint-Laurent. Construites en 1713 dans les sillons de la guerre de succession de l'Espagne, les fortifications sont le théâtre des conflits entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne pour le contrôle de l'embouchure du Fleuve. De son côté, Catherine Thibeault nous fait découvrir l'écrivain Mikhail Bulgakov, l'un des auteurs satiriques les plus marquants de la période soviétique. Farouchement opposé à la Révolution et à l'avènement de l'État bolchévique, Bulgakov critique la société soviétique naissante, faisant ainsi grincer des dents les autorités.

Resonance Rising Trilogy – Episode 1: You Are an InstrumentWhat if your body is not simply a body—but an instrument of resonance?In Episode 1 of the Resonance Rising trilogy, Dr. Michelle Greenwell is joined by Ann Smets and Ann-Marie Boudreau for a powerful conversation exploring the body as a living field of sound, vibration, and intelligence.Together, we explore how your thoughts, emotions, breath, and voice shape your energetic state—and how healing begins when we consciously tune the instrument of the self.In this episode, we explore:✨ The body as a resonance chamber ✨ The four principles of sound healing: Resonance, Frequency, Entrainment, and Intention ✨ How the nervous system responds to tone, rhythm, and harmony ✨ The healing power of the voice ✨ Vocal toning, chanting, tuning forks, singing bowls, and seed sounds ✨ Why healing begins by restoring harmony withinThis episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and remember: before we heal the world, we must first tune ourselves.Begin your Resonance Rising listening experience with a mindful cup of 1713 Spring Tea in Louisbourg from the Cape Breton Tea Company, inspired by the fields around the Fortress of Louisbourg and infused with lavender and rose to calm the nervous system and open the heart. This simple tea ritual is an invitation into reverence, resonance, and the remembrance that nature already holds the frequency of healing. Closing Mantra: When we become the embodied field, we add to the healing resonance of the world.Connect with Our GuestsAnn Smets Website: www.soulestara.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulestara22 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulestaraAnn-Marie Boudreau YouTube: @ann-marieboudreau8570 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annmarie.boudreau.1Connect with Dr. Michelle GreenwellWebsite: www.greenwellcenter.com Tea & Rituals: www.capebretontea.ca Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michellebgreenwell/ Cape Breton Tea Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capebretonteacompany/Free Gift + Stay ConnectedDownload your free Top 8 Stress Releasers at:www.greenwellcenter.comBe sure to subscribe to the blog for weekly insights, wellness tools, podcast updates, and holistic practices to support your healing journey.✨ Follow along on social media ✨ Subscribe to the channel ✨ Like, comment, and share ✨ Tell us what resonated most in today's episodeEach episode of the Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell podcast includes the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. That means that you have the opportunity to have a healing session while you listen based on the way the content is laid out and the activities we participate in. Before listening you can create a goal or an intention of where you would like to be heading with an activity or in your life, then make your cup of tea, engage in the activities and celebrate at the end. Are you looking for more resources? The best way to find all the resources in one location is by visiting https://linktr.ee/greenwellcenter. Become a regular listener of the podcast and purchase your own tea blends to assist you in transformation while you listen. Our podcast is designed to bring balance and flow to your day, week, month, and year. Thanks for sharing us with others who could also benefit. Please send us your feedback and a review. Support the showDr. Michelle Greenwell, BA Psych, MSc CAM, Ph. D CIH (Complementary and Integrative Health).  Striving to support the public to choose self-care and well-being options that create ease and flow in their lives, Michelle specializes in using movement to heal the body.  Her BioEnergetic Formula for Success provides a means for everyone to set their intentions and create support and action for flow and ease to the goals.  Learn more at www.greenwellcenter.com.  Follow her YouTube channel and specialty playlists.  Find her full resource list here. She highlights her Tea Company: The Cape Breton Tea Company which you can find at www.capebretontea.ca.  Included is the specialty line of Tea with Intention, Harmony Blends and Coaster, and the focus on high quality organic black, green, herbal, rooibos, and honeybush tea.  Including tea with your podcast listening is a unique way to explore tea, create healthy habits, and have great conversations with friends and colleagues.

Martin McNicoll, founder of Distillerie des Cantons de l’Est This is the first episode in an occasional In The Channel series called “Life after the channel” – conversations with people who built careers in the Canadian IT channel and then went on to do something completely different. Martin McNicoll founded Gurus Solutions, originally ERP Guru, and grew it into one of NetSuite’s most decorated Canadian partners over nearly two decades – President’s Club, nine consecutive years as a Five Star Award winner, and offices from Montreal to Chicago. He sold the company in 2022 and turned his attention to something that had been brewing since a 50th birthday trip to Scotland: whisky. Distillerie des Cantons de l’Est is a grain-to-bottle operation in Mansonville, Quebec, where Martin and his team are growing organic barley and rye using regenerative agriculture, distilling on-site, and aging their whisky in oak casks. First barrels went in in December 2024, with the first whiskies expected around 2028. In this conversation, we talk about the failed attempt to buy a cask at Balvenie that started it all, the sale of Gurus and what made him finally say yes, why the skills he built running an ERP consultancy translate surprisingly well to running a distillery, and what it means to retrain a SaaS-speed brain for a product that takes years to mature. Martin also shares the story behind the McNicoll brand – his Scottish ancestors who came to Quebec with the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders in 1757 – and talks about the fight to get a distillery approved on Quebec agricultural land, replanting American oak for barrels that won’t be ready for 30 years, and what’s coming next, including a butterscotch liqueur later this year. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca and your host for the show. This episode is a little different from what you’re used to hearing on In The Channel. It’s the first in what I’m hoping becomes an occasional series I’m calling “Life After the Channel” – conversations with people who built careers in the Canadian IT channel and then went on to do something completely different. My guest today is Martin McNicoll. If you were in the NetSuite ecosystem in Canada at any point over the last two decades, you probably know Martin. He founded ERP Guru, which was later rebranded to Gurus Solutions, grew it into one of NetSuite’s top partners in the country, picked up every award in the book, and eventually sold the company in 2022. And then he went and did something that nobody saw coming. Martin’s now building a grain-to-bottle whisky distillery in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, growing his own organic barley and rye, aging his own barrels, and building a brand rooted in his family’s Scottish heritage going back to the 1700s. It’s a great story. So let’s get right into it, my chat with Martin McNicoll. [MUSIC] Robert: Martin, thanks for taking the time. Thanks for joining us. Martin McNicoll: Robert, it’s great to be here with you today. Robert: Nice to catch up. We ran into each other a lot at SuiteWorld. And for years, when I talked to Craig West about the channel in Canada for NetSuite, you guys would be one of the first names that came up. President’s Club, Five Star, the whole nine yards. And now you’re making whisky in the Eastern Townships. Walk me through that. How did we come to be where we’re at today? Martin: Well, it’s a note on Craig. He was my RSM. He was the guy managing me and Gurus when you started. He wasn’t like head of the channel. He actually came down to Montreal to help me start the practice. So we connected for all that time. But to go back to the whisky business, I’m a Scotch fan. I’m a whisky fan. And now, like eight years ago, for my 50th birthday, I went to Scotland with a bunch of friends and had a great time visiting distilleries for a full week, just drinking Scotch and having fun and eating good food. And when we came back, a couple of years later, it was COVID. And COVID, I think, happened and a lot of people got ideas of what they really want to do. And I have a cottage in the Eastern Townships, which is, for your listeners, a bit up north of Vermont. I’m 15 minutes from Jay Peak, which is a ski resort in Vermont, on the Canada side. Beautiful place. And we stayed there for the first year of COVID. We had amazing success with Gurus. I think for everybody in the channel, cloud services companies really boomed during that time. Everybody wanted to run their business from home. It was a great time. And I said, what can we do? We had supply chain issues our customers were trying to solve. And I said, what can I do? What can I contribute? I started with ideas of being a farmer. These were shut down pretty fast. But a friend of mine said, you know what, we can grow barley and rye and we can make whisky. And I said, oh, that’s a great idea. And then the hunt was on. We found some land – I mean, that’s the only thing we could do during COVID, drive around and look for land – and found great land with a great combination of good water and enough acreage to grow the cereals. And it started like that. And then a French company approached us to buy Gurus. And it was just the right timing. So everything happened. It just gave me more money to spend on booze, sort of saying. Robert: As it should be. So to your point on that 2018 trip to Scotland, I read that the dream sort of began with a mission of bringing home a cask of whisky. Is that true? Martin: It is true. We tried to, actually. When we went to the Balvenie and we said we’d like to buy one of your casks. And they looked at us like aliens. It’s like going to a Michelin restaurant and asking to buy the pan of the chef, right? Because the cask is part of the process. That’s what gives some of the aromas to the whisky. That’s where it’s aging. So you just can’t leave with the cask. You just can’t. I mean, I guess there were some barrel programs today, but you leave the cask there. You buy the liquid that’s in the cask, that’s all yours, but you can’t leave with the cask. But that was funny. That led to very interesting conversations at the distilleries in Scotland. Crazy Canadians trying to buy a cask. That’s the IP. That’s the trade secrets of the industry. Robert: So you had Gurus for 18 years, Alan Allman Associates comes knocking. You said initially you didn’t want to sell. What changed your mind? How much of it was about making room for the distillery that was already percolating in the back of your mind versus just feeling like it was the right time to do something new? Martin: I mean, it was that. I wanted to dedicate more time, because at that point the guy running Gurus was my COO, Dominic, and he was doing a great job. I was taking more time off and giving him more bandwidth on the business to run it. And I wanted him to be the president and continue running it. And these guys came in and they said, “We want to buy your company.” I said, “Okay, I’m not interested.” So they came back a couple times and the second time said, “Okay, how much do you want?” And I gave what I thought was a crazy number and they said yes. So I was done. And today it’s one of the most profitable businesses they have in their portfolio, and they’ve added other ERPs to the mix buying other companies in North America. And for the French, Quebec and Canada is kind of the bridgehead to go to the rest of Canada and the US. They needed a company that can speak English, which Gurus dealt with very well all the time. Not all of them do. But it was great for them. A great acquisition on their side. I’m still sitting on their board in Montreal every quarter, so it keeps me connected to the business, having fun there and very proud to see the company continue to thrive. Robert: You guys built Gurus through a string of acquisitions – Enabled Success, NetStra, MD Technical Resources. You had offices from Montreal to Chicago. When you look at what you’re doing now with the distillery – buying land, building infrastructure, hiring a master distiller – does it feel like it’s the same muscles that you built in building up Gurus, or is it completely different? Martin: It is the same thing. That’s very funny. I thought it would be something else. It’s not. It’s just managing people, managing providers. I mean, the problems are different – it’s like a truck being stuck emptying a cargo of casks going to the distillery, or a pump that is broken. But it’s like following up with the providers, finding the right partners, researching, researching, researching, reading. And all the skills that I’ve developed in BI and everything that we’ve built with Gurus is fully applied here at the distillery. So I started with cloud solutions first, and we’re using all the Google stack, which I always used, with their Google Cloud. All the data of the distillery is stored in a Google Cloud database and we can do analysis. It’s just great to look at it from a data perspective and have the right people to do the job. And I recognize what I’m good at and what I’m not good at. So I break stuff sometimes. That keeps me away from some pieces of equipment. Robert: One thing that jumped out on the website for the distillery was the grain-to-bottle concept. You grow the grain, you distill it, you age it, you sell it. You control the whole chain. For 20 years you kind of sat as the middleman doing the consulting and implementation in between NetSuite and the customer. Was it something about that experience that made you want to own the whole thing this time around? Martin: Definitely. And as you know, Robert, in the ERP channel, it’s not your software, it’s NetSuite. And my team understood the software, and the best successes we had were when we found a customer, sold NetSuite, understood the requirements, gave them a realistic estimate, implemented, and took them live with the right time frame. So that to me was like the perfect – everything that would work great, boom, boom, boom. We sold, we implemented, we took them live, converted all their data. Happy customers stayed with us for years. And that was a bit of that, right? Where the channel model is changing – like the Salesforce model, even NetSuite is changing where there’s more of a side where you need to work with a direct sales team, which by definition have different objectives. Their objective is to sell the software for as much as possible. As for a partner, when you do the implementation, there’s a lot in it for you also in year two and year three. So you want the whole thing to go as smooth as possible. Different pros and cons there. And I think that was definitely an inspiration in owning the whole supply chain and making the product. And even then, I need to buy bottles from China. Robert: Yeah, it’s the classic case study, right? If one person could make a nail, it would be completely impossible to gather all the skills you would need to go from getting the metal out of the earth to producing a nail, much less a bottle of whisky, much less enterprise ERP. The distillery website says patience is part of your essence, and whisky obviously is a product that has to age for years before you can sell a bottle. In the channel, again to the contrast you were just describing, everything’s about this quarter’s numbers, this year’s President’s Club. It’s fast, it’s iterative, things change very quickly, new features are added rapidly. How do you retrain your brain from SaaS speed to whisky speed? Martin: I’m still impatient. But you know what, you go out in the field. And in the last couple years we had a lot of rain. And we had issues with weeds going into our fields, because we took fields that were used for hay to give to cows. So there’s a lot of seeds that you need to take out of that land. And we’re doing it with regenerative agriculture techniques, where we don’t use Roundup, we don’t use chemicals. And sometimes you just sit there and you prepare the soil and then you go into the field and you make it super nice and you plant. And then two weeks later it’s full of weeds. Like hectares of weeds just popping up on top of your barley. And you’re like, yeah, what are you going to do? You try, you go in there first and you try to pull them out, and then you realize the scale of this. It’s impossible, right? So patience is pushed on you, I would say, in agriculture. And for the whisky, I mean, we’re tasting it. I love whisky. And we have now barrels that are one year old. And these are rye – rye is something that grows very fast, very high, super easy. It’s like a weed in itself if you talk to the farmers. So we had a great crop of rye and we made our first rye last year. So we were opening up that cask and tasting it now, and it is great. But you can taste after one year the immaturity of the whisky. So I think you have to trust your taste buds and say, okay, this is great. There’s something nice, nice colour, this is the direction I want it to take. But it’s not ready. So you sit on it, you put the cork on top of it, hammer it down, and then just wait again. And I’m telling people, when is it ready? It’s going to be ready when it’s ready. It’s going to be great. Robert: Can’t rush it. You’re working 60 acres of organic grain, you’re building your rickhouse, you’re hiring a master distiller, you’re planning a tasting centre. This doesn’t sound like a hobby thing for retirement. This is a full second career. Do you find you’re working harder now than you were when you were running Gurus? Martin: Definitely. Because at the end, when you build a business, you assemble a team and people know what to do. You’ve got a PMO office, a back office, and a marketing team. And now you’re alone. So I’m like, can I get some help here? I have nobody. So you’re back into entering data in QuickBooks. No, I’ve solved that, I delegated that. But it’s tough. And the problem is, when I sold the business, I told my wife I’m retiring. And she said, yeah, yeah, you’re retiring. But I didn’t think, and she didn’t think, it would be this intense in terms of running it. And you’re fighting against all the bureaucracy and you have to understand all the rules, environmental rules. And you have to understand, to be a farmer, you have to apply for a permit to be a farmer. So what’s your background, sir? Well, I’m a software engineer. So really, good thing. Do you know about farming? Absolutely not. Okay, what are you going to do about it? Well, I’m going to hire someone. Who is it? I don’t know. Well, you need to get the licence first. So no, I found someone actually that really helped me and was working in the prairies in Saskatchewan for more than 10 years, working with cereals there. So it’s assembling a team, making it work together, putting all the resources in place so they can succeed. It’s the same thing. What I like is the manual labour, which you don’t get in tech. I’ve lost some weight. So that’s good, being out there and working with the equipment. One of the projects we’re working on now – for your listeners, we’re in March and mid-March in Quebec, it’s still very cold, it’s like minus 15 Celsius – so it’s the last time we’ll be able to go in the forest. And what we’re doing is harvesting some trees to plant oak trees. We’re introducing Quercus alba, which is the American oak, into our forest, because we have more forest than we have land. And the goal would be in, I don’t know, 30 years – I won’t be there – to make some barrels, maybe. So again, in that supply chain of getting there. But there’s no more oak in the area. It was all cut down for the lumber industry. So we’re replanting. That’s one of the side projects. So we’re going to go out with the equipment on Friday and go in the woods and cut some trees. That’s something I didn’t used to do. And that’s what my job involves now. A chainsaw. I’m happy. Robert: This is what you get to invent for yourself. And if you’re happy, that’s brilliant. You’re making three types of whisky as I understand it – a single malt, you touched on the rye, and a Canadian bourbon, which is not a concept I’d heard before. Very interesting. I enjoy a whisky, I am not a well-educated drinker. But for those who are listening, what’s the vision of the distillery? What are you going for with the whisky products? Martin: So we’re looking to develop high-end whisky. We’re talking about $100 bottles. So it really needs to be fine-tuned to the taste of the different products that you build. When you talk about rye whisky, it’s mainly – the cereal has to be rye. Single malt is just barley. And when you talk about bourbon, or if you talk about bourbon in Kentucky, it’s mainly based out of corn. So we have corn also on the land and we’ve added some wheat that we’ve tried. It’s a mix of different – they call it a mash bill. So our mash bill, the cereals that get taken into the equipment for the mash to create a beer. We make a beer, then we distill that beer and that’s the whisky at the end. The big difference is the cereals. So that batch we had, I think it was two years ago, big winter, and we couldn’t get the rye out of our silos because of the amount of snow and ice that was out there. So we said, hey, we have some corn there. Why don’t we make some – it’s all Canadian whisky, right? If you look at the official denomination, it’s Canadian whisky. Don’t confuse marketing with the real stuff. But it’s a mash bill that involves more than 50% corn. In this one I think it’s 65% corn. And it has that – you’ll recognize it if you’re a bourbon drinker – that very sweet, mellow taste of corn that you get into the whisky. That’s what you get from bourbon. So that’s what we’re making with that corn. Robert: I look forward to trying that, actually. Hopefully someday. On your website, I love the clan story – the McNicoll ancestors coming over with the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders in 1757, fighting at Louisbourg and Quebec, settling in La Malbaie. And now you’re bringing that Scottish whisky tradition back to Quebec soil. How much of this, as well as the ability to play with the chainsaw and hopefully bring in some casks, how much of this is about honouring that heritage? Martin: Well, that was a big part. When I started to enjoy more whisky and go back to Scotland, I went back to the land of my ancestors. So that was Portree, close to the Isle of Skye. And there’s another area also, another region, that there’s two big areas that the McNicoll clan were. So I got to visit that. That was always part of the story. And then as I was publishing some of my content on Scotland, a professor from a university here in the Eastern Townships contacted me. He said, you know, I wrote a book on the McNicoll clan, the whole story. So we started to talk and that became a very nice collaboration between him and the distillery to tell more of the story, to the point where we decided to call the whisky McNicoll. So the whiskies are going to be called McNicoll, with the different types of whisky we’re going to sell. The brand itself is my last name, which is an honour to this Scot who came to America, really, because they fought down, they went down to New York with the 78th, and the original dude came back north. And my mother has French ancestry – she’s a Chevalier, she’s French, French, French – and then Scottish, Scottish, Scottish. And then there’s a mix. You can see there’s a mix in between those two. And you look at the genealogy, and that professor went back and he found all the ancestors and all the churches here in Quebec and went down to New York, went to Scotland to find all the origins. Very interesting to see the different clans and the French into making our population today. Robert: Very cool. You touched a little earlier on the bureaucracy and that kind of fun. You went through an interesting fight with Quebec’s Agricultural Land Protection Commission to get permission to build a distillery on farmland. Without getting too deep into the legal weeds, what was that like? And is that a challenge other people thinking about agritourism or value-added agriculture should be ready for? Martin: Definitely. And doing business in anything that involves food – there are some guidelines and some rules of law that you need to follow, which is, I would say, much harder than to open a NetSuite provider or a NetSuite partner licence. I had offices all across the US and also in the rest of Canada. It was 100 times easier to open an office in California than to start an agri business in Quebec, or even I would say Canada. Some provinces are easier than Quebec, but it was always a challenge. But I knew I was right. So one thing you learn is that you surround yourself with great people. My lawyers – that’s the thing you can do when you have money, you just lawyer up. But they were great at understanding everything that was going on. I found the expert and this woman knew exactly what was happening. She found some other people that were able to go through it. And we just had to go through all the legwork and convince the commission that what we’re doing is okay. And here’s why. But it’s a process and it’s frustrating because you’re there and you want to do this project. And you’re like, I’m going to be environmentally friendly. I’m going to do this from the grain to the bottle. I want to do all those different things. And then you see all those obstacles. But I think it’s part of the challenge, going through them and winning. At the end, I won. So that’s what counts. Robert: It is exactly what counts. So if someone in the channel who’s in a place that you were at when you were with Gurus is listening to this and thinking, I’d love to do something like that someday – not necessarily to be a competitor to you, but to sell the practice, go off and do something completely different, that’s their dream – what would you tell them, having gone through this process as far as you have now? Martin: I think the fact that they have done it before – starting a consulting firm and running it and dealing with customers – they’ve built their knowledge and their expertise and their resilience into doing anything else. I would always say that implementing an ERP system is the Formula One of computer science, because you have so much complexity. And if you fail, the company can die. They will not operate. Products will not ship. Invoices will not go out. You can cripple a business by doing a wrong implementation. So I would say you’re really prepared to do anything, in my mind, after the channel, after running that type of business. I think it’s just to look at what you like to do and what’s your ambition and take it head on. Robert: Good advice. Good advice from someone who has done it and is doing it. And my last and no doubt most important question – when do we get to actually taste the whisky? When do you get to market with your products? Martin: At least two years. So to be whisky, to be called whisky, it needs to be three years in a cask, in an oak cask. And for us, we just reached our first anniversary in December. So we still have a good two years to go. And we have to decide if we are going to put it in a bottle or not. We’re going to taste it and say, is it ready or not? And if not, I’m just going to sit on it again. However, we’re coming out with a liqueur that we’re making. It’s a butterscotch liqueur that our master distiller has been developing. And he’s working also on another liqueur that we want to put out, and we’re going to sell locally. Just to get some things out of the distillery with a Scottish-type accent. Our master distiller has also some Scottish ancestry. He went to school at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh to learn about the trade. So he’s got all those ancient recipes of Scottish liqueurs. We’re pulling out of that book to create some interesting products. So that should come in a couple of months, hopefully, if I can get my bottles from China. Robert: Fascinating stuff. Good luck. It’s been very interesting catching up and it’s always fascinating to hear about the journeys of folks who’ve made a career in the channel and see what they’re doing afterwards. All the best with getting that liqueur out, and the longer term getting those three whiskies out the door. Martin: Thank you, Robert. Robert: There you have it – Martin McNicoll, formerly of Gurus Solutions, currently of Distillerie des Cantons de l’Est. I’d like to thank Martin for his time and honestly for his openness. It’s not every day that someone walks you through what it’s actually like to trade quarterly SaaS targets for fields of organic barley and barrels that won’t be ready for three years. A couple things that stuck out for me in this conversation. First, the idea that the same muscles that Martin built running a channel business – the acquisitions, the growth planning, the systems thinking – are the same muscles he’s using to build the distillery. Different industry, same instincts. I think anyone running a channel practice will recognize themselves in that. And second, the patience piece. Martin talked about planting trees today for barrels he won’t use for 30 years. That’s a fundamentally different relationship with time than most of us have in the tech world. And I think that’s something worth sitting with. If you want to learn more about what Martin’s building, you can find the distillery at distilleriedescantons.ca, and we’ll have a link for that in the show notes. Keep an eye out for the butterscotch liqueur, which should be available before the whisky is. If you enjoyed the episode, do me a favour – follow or subscribe wherever you’re listening, whether it’s Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever else you find your podcasts. And if you’re feeling generous, a rating or review goes a long way for a small show like ours. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

fWotD Episode 3207: James Cook Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Saturday, 14 February 2026, is James Cook.Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779. He completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand, and led the first recorded visit by Europeans to the east coast of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager before enlisting in the Royal Navy in 1755. He first saw combat during the Seven Years' War, when he fought in the Siege of Louisbourg. Later in the war he surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the St. Lawrence River during the Siege of Quebec. In the 1760s he mapped the coastline of Newfoundland and made important astronomical observations which brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and the Royal Society. This acclaim came at a pivotal moment in British overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of his three voyages. During these voyages he sailed tens of thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas, mapping coastlines, islands, and features across the globe in greater detail than previously charted – including Easter Island, Alaska, and South Georgia Island. He made contact with numerous indigenous peoples, and claimed several territories for the Kingdom of Great Britain. Renowned for exceptional seamanship and courage in times of danger, he was patient, persistent, sober, and competent, but sometimes hot-tempered. His contributions to the prevention of scurvy, a disease common among sailors, led the Royal Society to award him the Copley Gold Medal.In 1779, during his second visit to Hawaii, Cook was killed when a dispute with Native Hawaiians turned violent. His voyages left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge that influenced his successors well into the 20th century. Numerous memorials have been dedicated to him worldwide.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:38 UTC on Saturday, 14 February 2026.For the full current version of the article, see James Cook on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Danielle.

Sydney, Nova Scotia's historic North End has a haunted reputation. Many of the buildings here have stood for more than 100 years and a handful are now museums. The Cossit House is one of the oldest houses on Cape Breton Island and haunted by its former occupants. The same is true with the Jost House. There are also a couple of haunted churches of all things. And the nearby Fortress of Louisbourg endured a couple of sieges and is today a National Historic site with several ghosts. Join us for the history and hauntings of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Check out the website: http://historygoesbump.com Show notes can be found here: https://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2026/01/hgb-ep-621-haunted-sydney-nova-scotia.html      Become an Executive Producer: http://patreon.com/historygoesbump Music used in this episode: (This Month in History) "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Title: "Wizardly Intro" Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0997280/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Le 27 juillet 1758 est un jour sombre pour la Nouvelle-France. La forteresse de Louisbourg tombe. Le Dypthique du fleuve : https://espacelibre.qc.ca/evenement/le-diptyque-du-fleuve/?srsltid=AfmBOordQLn2YRTWxZ_X-WMuzaiT4GmBkSbIDsVSzUma1_mV2fYrZAM0 Script: Amylie Chiasson Adhérez à cette chaîne pour obtenir des avantages : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4TCCaX-gqBNkrUqXdgGRA/join Pour soutenir la chaîne, au choix: 1. Cliquez sur le bouton « Adhérer » sous la vidéo. 2. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hndl Musique issue du site : epidemicsound.com Images provenant de https://www.storyblocks.com Abonnez-vous à la chaine: https://www.youtube.com/c/LHistoirenousledira Les vidéos sont utilisées à des fins éducatives selon l'article 107 du Copyright Act de 1976 sur le Fair-Use. Sources et pour aller plus loin: CARRIER, Roch, Montcalm and Wolfe : the dual biography of two men who forever changed the course of Canadian history, New York, HarperCollins, 2014, 282p. DESCHÊNES, Gaston et al., Vivre la conquête à travers plus de 25 parcours individuels, Québec, Septentrion, n˚ 1, 2013. DESCHÊNES, Gaston et al., Vivre la conquête à travers plus de 25 parcours individuels, Québec, Septentrion, n˚ 2, 2013. JOHNSTON, A.J.B., 1758 La finale : Promesses, splendeur et désolation..., Pul Diffusion, 437p. Autres références disponibles sur demande. #histoire #documentaire

Send us a textIntuition through the Language of DreamsIn this second conversation of our three-part series, intuitive healer Delphine Rossi invites us to explore the hidden language of our dreams and the profound messages they carry. Dreams are more than fleeting images — they are portals into our subconscious, offering guidance, healing, and deep self-connection.Together, we discuss:How your intuition speaks to you through your own unique dream languageThe varied intentions of dreams — from problem-solving to emotional processingUsing dream journals and drawings to deepen your self-understanding and spiritual connectionWe share insights, practical tools, and gentle encouragement for anyone wanting to tap into the wisdom of their dream world. Whether you're new to dreamwork or already keeping a journal by your bed, you'll leave with ideas for connecting more deeply with your inner guidance.Featured Tea: Cape Breton Tea Company's 1713 Spring Tea in Louisbourg, a blend with lavender and chamomile that supports peaceful rest, gentle release, and the kind of inward clarity that lets dream messages rise to the surface — the perfect companion for dream journaling and quiet morning contemplation.Learn more about the Cape Breton Tea Company at www.capebretontea.ca

La chute de Louisbourg a été un tournant de la guerre de la Conquête. La forteresse qui assurait la sécurité à l'entrée du fleuve Saint-Laurent est tombée à deux reprises aux mains de la Grande-Bretagne. L'historien Maurice Basque raconte comment les troupes britanniques ont fait sauter le dernier verrou français de l'Atlantique.

Annnd, we are back. I thank everyone for their patience during the impromptu hiatus. Some very exciting news to be announced, so stay tuned for updates and enjoy as we get back to our regular program.My next guest resides in the coastal town of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. While Harvey Morash was working on his father's boat in search of sea urchins, he would experience his first breaths underwater. From there, this would lead him to seek out proper training. The challenging cold conditions would not dissuade him, but rather have an opposite effect to push him further. Teaching with the National Association of Underwater Instructors, A move into technical and overhead diving, the value of a challenge, shipwrecks, and much more. Please enjoy!Recorded in February 2025Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/harvmorash/  Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/harvey.morashWebsite:https://www.louisbourgscuba.com/

On the phone-in: Our guest is Ketty Nivyabandi -- Amnesty International Canada's Secretary General. She discusses what can be done to address the rise in authoritarianism in the world, particularly in the US. And off the top of the show, we hear about a carpentry project at the Louisbourg fortress in Cape Breton. And Sussex, NB, now has a Flood Risk Mitigation Plan.

On the phone-in: Listeners call to share their views on Canada's immigration policies. Our guests are Elizabeth Wozniak and Syed Hussan. And off the top of the show, we hear from people in Louisbourg, Cape Breton, who wish cruise ship passengers could more easily visit the town.

We speak with the entrepreneur and maker of moonshine jam who's behind a new monthly food-only market in Louisbourg. 

Steve Parsons represents district 7, which includes Route 4 from Howie Centre to Irish Cove, as well as Gabarus, Marion Bridge, Mira Road and Membertou.And Steven MacNeil represents district 8, which includes part of Glace Bay, part of Reserve Mines, the French Road area, Donkin, Port Morien, Mira Gut, Albert Bridge, and Louisbourg.

Britney Wentzell stops by Louisbourg to hear about a small business that's gone beyond a storefront and is trying to provide more for its community.

From timid to terror-filled adventures, Chris Surrette and Jan-Sebastien LaPierre recommend ways to make the most of Halloween, including a haunted corn maze at River Breeze Farm in Lower Onslow, to a sinister soiree at the Fortress of Louisbourg.

The Louisbourg Lighthouse Trail re-opens today at noon, just over two years after it suffered extensive damage during Fiona.  

CBRM District 8: for Donkin-Morien & Louisbourg. The candidates are Derrick Kennedy, Shawn Lesnick and Steven MacNeil.

After the big wildfires in the mainland last year, there's been renewed focus on the old road between Louisbourg and Gabarus. It's long been closed with only one exit from Louisbourg and some community members are renewing the campaign to get it open again.

Beginning in 1758, the British war effort would be run by the brilliant and aggressive Member of Parliament William Pitt. Pitt opened up the government's purse to properly fund the war effort and sent a cadre of new, younger, and more aggressive generals to try and turn the tide in North America. They kicked off the 1758 campaigning season with bold assaults on the key French positions of Louisbourg and Fort Carillon. Would these efforts succeed? Join Jacob and James as they tell you.

After the French defeat of British forces led by George Washington in 1754 and Edward Braddock in 1755, things did not improve for the British. In 1756 and 1757, French forces captured the British forts Bull, Ontario, Oswego, and WIlliam Henry, while the French navy blocked a British attempt to capture Louisbourg. Meanwhile, in London, the King searched for a leader who could turn the tide in North America. Join Jacob and James as they tell how Britain was driven to the brink of collapse in the New World. 

The Louisbourg Lighthouse Trail will be closed this summer to finally repair damage from Fiona.

DFO is beefing up its oversight of the Mi'kmaw moderate livelihood fishery for lobsters after one harvester suffered lost or damaged traps last week near Louisbourg.

A full serving of community service: We launch a series of conversations with Cape Breton organizations helping tackle food insecurity. One group that received funding is the Louisbourg Legion.

A feature conversation with Cape Breton comedian Nick Beaton, as he gets set to film a one hour special in Louisbourg.

The New Food Initiatives and Security project will provide a range of services for those who live in rural parts of CBRM (between Hornes Road and Louisbourg).

This week, Kate went down another rabbit hole reading a Haliburton Echo newspaper archive from 1946 and came up with 2 stories - one on a committee formed to figure a way for the community to increase tourism in the post WW2 era, and another on Haliburton's Red Cross Outpost Hospital - the building that Canoe FM now occupies.Plus Paul tells the tale of the rise and fall of France's Fort Louisbourg, and the strategic place it held in the see-saw battle between France and Britain for predominance in North America. Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at timewarp@canoefm.com

Why the Legion is now the place to be in Louisbourg, with an infusion of energy and ideas from a new volunteer.

For our Acadian column, Ronald Labelle talks about the Ballad of Louisbourg.

It's a warm July Sunday in 1745. You're sitting in your pew at the First Church of York, Maine, waiting for the service to begin. It is a quiet time, a time for reflection and prayer. Today will offer something different though and try as you will to focus on more spiritual matters, you can't help but wonder at what is to come. Your pastor, old Samuel Moody,has gone with William Pepperrell's colonial militia to lay siege to Louisbourg at Cape Breton. Old Moody is the army's spiritual advisor and knowing him as you do, you have no doubt that his long-winded prayers and cutting commentary alone might be enough to force the French from Quebec. You admit that the new pastor might be a breath of fresh air, considering that old Samuel Moody seemed to know everything about everybody in the church and had no qualms exposing the private lives and sins of his congregation from the pulpit. The new pastor, though, has some issues of his own. He stands in front of the crowd and begins to speak, quietly, almost silently. He is well-known to you. But in the past few years, he has isolated himself more and more from people, sent his own children to live with relatives, for his wife has passed, and is only seen outside rarely, at night, walking among the headstones or along the beach. Stranger still is the man's appearance and that's what you have been wondering about as you sit there quietly. Will he remove it? Will he preach without it? Apparently not. He's wearing it now as he speaks, the fabric fluttering with his breath as he forms the words. Then, when he must read from the Scriptures, he takes the Bible in his hands and turns his back on the congregation and only then does he remove it. Reading to the wall, so no one can see his face, only then is he free from it. When he turns back around, it is there. You suspected as much. His sermon is as long as his father's and you sit there, sweating and listening intently. He certainly doesn't seem demented but he does seem clouded or depressed. This is Joseph Moody, the son of your own pastor.  Everyone in York knows that he wears a veil to cover his face, is never seen in public without it, and with no explanation why. The minister's black veil is in place this morning as it has been for the past seven years.  It wasn't always this way for Joseph Moody. There was a time when he was one of the most popular and influential men in the village of York. Old Samuel Moody's son grew up with his father's tutelage and was highly educated. He was the school master of the settlement, helping to prepare young men for Harvard. He was the Register of Deeds and the Town Clerk, not to mention being his father's assistant minister. There was hardly a more social, community-minded man in the village. He married and had a family and in all ways seemed destined to continue in the footsteps of his father, that is, until something happened, something that he never shared with anyone and made him cover his face from all except the eyes of God for the remainder of his life. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about him, although he changed the minister's name, in one of his earliest stories, “The Minister's Black Veil.” Women wore black veils when they mourned, but for a man to cover his face with a veil was unheard of. It was strange. But the people of York grew used to his bizarre habit because he was one of their own, because he could still perform the functions of a minister, even though he was the preferred choice for funerals over christenings. Except for the veil, he seemed mostly normal. He spent most of his time in his own rooms, bothering no one, and to avoid contact when he was with others, he often sat facing a wall. Some people think his strange behavior is a result of the death of his wife, but the wearing of the veil did not coincide with the time of her death. What could cause an educated socially-minded man of God to cover his face, as though he was ashamed of some private sin? The people did not know, and after his death in 1753, they still were unsure. A legend arose that he told a friend on his deathbed that he wore the veil because once, when he had been a child, he and friend had been out hunting and he mistakenly shot his friend to death. Then he reported to the people that his friend had been shot as a result of an Indian attack, a harsh reality of the time. No one would have questioned an Indian attack. The legend says that the good reverend lied his entire life about the accidental death and that lie ate away at him. The veil was his outward sign of his secret sin. The legend even says that he was buried with the veil over his face, according to his wishes. We know that at the end of his life, Joseph Moody, the veiled man, lived with one of his deacons. One night in 1753, Joseph was in good spirits and began to sing hymns, something he rarely did at home. Then he refused to eat dinner before retiring. Then, he went to bed and died in the night in his sleep. He went to sleep in one world and hopefully awoke in the next, although whether it was in Heaven or Hell, God only knows. He did not confess to anything on his deathbed, or at least, there is no proof. The eccentric son of an eccentric man died and was buried with the following epitaph: “Here lies interred the body of the Reverend Joseph Moody pastor of the Second Church in York, an excelling instance of knowledge, ingenuity, learning, piety, virtue and usefulness, was very serviceable as a school master, clerk, register, magistrate and afterwards as a minister was uncommonly qualified and spirited to do good, and accordingly was highly esteemed and greatly lamented. Although this stone may moulder into dust, Yet Joseph Moody's name continue must.” There is another side to the story of Joseph Moody. Something else occurred in his life that could have led to this strange behavior, something far worse than a lie. To understand it, we have to look at the life of his father and of a 23 year old Native American woman named Patience Boston. The intersection of the lives of these three people may well have led to Joseph Moody wearing a veil and hiding his face from all but God.The real reason he wore it may lie in that intersection of souls. Joseph Moody's father, Samuel, was the grandson of an accused witch, Mary Bradbury. She was imprisoned for the crime and taken into custody in May of 1692. She was not executed. His own father, Caleb, was imprisoned for five weeks for daring to speak as a Free Man. Young Samuel put his nose to the grindstone and eventually graduated Harvard in 1697 and was offered the chaplaincy of York, then on the very edge of the frontier, a place where locals had been killed in Indian raids and people only attended church services while armed. He accepted the task but without any remuneration, believing that God would provide. He gave away all that he owned in the world, even his horse, and took up the cause of the Lord. He was a powerful speaker with a temper. He would visit alehouses and drive the drinkers out. He spoke long prayers and uttered things his congregation may not have truly understood, but he was steadfast and strong in a dangerous place. You might not agree with the Reverend Samuel Moody but you did not miss his Sunday sermon. He was a self-righteous, bombastic, holier-than-thou, fire and brimstone preacher whose power of personality was immense among his people. This was the man who at 71 years old, a very ripe age for the time, volunteered to be the senior chaplain to the expedition at Louisbourg. At the time he was the oldest man in the Colonial Army. When they did capture the fort, Moody took an ax to the Catholic altar and religious images in the chapel there. He was a fiery, powerful, not-to-be-questioned man. Old Samuel Moody may have been so righteous and driven because he felt the “irresistible grace” of the Lord. Like most of the other early American religious sects, he was a follower of that branch of Protestantism called Calvinism, named after John Calvin of Geneva. One of the core beliefs of Calvinism was that before God created the world, he predestined or predetermined the eternal destiny of each and every soul born into the world. You were either going to Heaven or Hell and there was nothing you could do about it. Neither Faith nor good works could change your standing in the eyes of God and you had no way of knowing if you were saved or not. But there were clues and the hope of salvation was what this system of beliefs was all about. Samuel Moody approached his work on earth from a very particular kind of Calvinism called Preparationist Predestination.In this nuanced form of Calvinism, God grants each person a kind of foreknowledge, a preparatory grace. Some people will simply know if they are saved, hearing the call, feeling the will of God at work within them. These are the lucky ones because, although God gives everyone the ability to feel this grace, not everyone does. Some people like the good Reverend Samuel Moody felt something called “irresistible grace,” an overwhelming confirmation in your heart that you are saved, a feeling so strong that it changes your life completely. After all, if you know you are going to Heaven, then you are one of the chosen ones, you don't have to worry anymore. Samuel believed in this kind of preparatory predestination and it is safe to say, so did his son Joseph. Ostensibly, so did the members of his congregation. The question is, did Joseph feel this irresistible grace? If he didn't, it is also safe to say that doubt would haunt him day and night, uncertainty would gnaw at his sleep. Why hadn't he been chosen? When would he know? How difficult it must have been to be the son of Samuel Moody. How could you ever please such a man? How could you ever hope to gain his pleasure and approval? How could you ever function outside of his shadow? When old Samuel Moody died in 1746, he did so in his son's arms. Was there relief for Joseph who could now finally become his own man in the community or was there fear? Fear that he might not be good enough to fill his father's shoes in the community? Fear that he was not a chosen one. Patience Boston was a Native American woman who was executed for murder in July of 1735 outside the old York jail at the young age of twenty-three years. She had freely confessed her guilt to the authorities in York. There was no trial for Patience. Young Benjamin Trott, she said, had been lured to a well and she had pushed him in and held him down with a stick until he drowned. But before she died upon the gallows, she played a very important part in the lives of the Moodys and in particular, may well be the reason that Joseph had his breakdown and began withdrawing from the world - all of this because, though she was a confessed murderer, she may have been entirely innocent. What we know of her actually comes from her own story, as told to the Moodys, most probably Joseph, while she lingered for a year in jail awaiting sentencing. It is one of the few first-person tracts we have from a native American of the time. Through many visits with the Moodys, she narrated her tale, though upon reading it the men state that the words may not all be hers, the spirit of what is written is. Her story begins when she was born a member of the Nauset tribe in Massachusetts, a group of natives who had converted and were known to the white settlers as the ‘praying' Indians. Her grandfather was one of the leaders of the tribe through her mothers side, but her mother died when she was three and her father indentured her to a white family, where she was removed from her people and placed among strangers in a separate, distinctly different culture than her own. Massachusetts law at the time declared that indentured servants were required to be able to read so they could study scripture, so young Patience was taught to read but not to write, thus requiring the Moodys to scribe for her while she was in prison. She was a Native American living under the roof of an English settler at a time of the French and Indian Wars, a stranger in a strange land. In her confession she indicates that while growing up, she was wicked and set fire to the house three times. She was taught that she had a wicked spirit by her mistress, the only person who, it seems, paid the girl any attention at all, that her nature was evil and sinful.. She writes, “My mistress would tell me that if I did not repent and turn to God, he might justly leave me to greater Sins. She was greatly concerned for me, and told me she was much afraid I should come to the gallows; and though she might not live to see it, she expected it.” When she reached the end of her indenture, she was free. The problem was that she was also an outcast. Who would she keep society with? Other natives? Probably not because she had not grown up among them and did not know them, influenced as she was by the English families she had been indentured to. The white settlers? Again, probably not, because of the color of her skin and the fact that she was native. Patience Boston had a problem: she didn't really belong anywhere. She gained her freedom and eventually met a black man, a slave, named Boston. Patience owned some land and used it to purchase Boston's freedom. However, no natives were allowed to live within the confines of the town unless they were connected with a member or servant of one of the English families, so Patience indentured herself again so she could be connected and remain with her husband in the settlement. How much time she actually spent with her husband is in question. He was a whaler and gone for long stretches of time. She must have truly loved him to sacrifice so much to be with him, or perhaps she was simply so very hungry for connection to something, to someone. During one of his absences, Patience gave birth to her first child who subsequently died soon after. She later claimed to the judicial authorities that the child was physically damaged during a particularly difficult birth and there was no way it could have lived. Truthfully, a native woman would not have expected or received help from an English master during birth, not a midwife or a helper in sight. This was her first child and she was mostly likely alone during the birth, which she claimed was a difficult one. Subsequently, she was either accused of infanticide or accused herself. A pious Christian woman of the time might well have blamed herself as having brought down the wrath of God by not being pious enough. If there was no other apparent cause, then it must be the fault of the mother for the death of the child, God's punishment to her. To what extent Patience believed this can be inferred because, strangely enough, she claimed it happened again. Boston returned and soon Patience was pregnant again and he was back at sea, leaving her to engage in whatever life she wanted insofar as her indenture allowed. Did she engage in the consumption of alcohol during this time? She claims she did. Did she consort with unfavorable characters while her husband was away? Yes. There was a belief in the culture of the time that if a woman was a sinner and had been actively engaged in sinful behavior that her offspring might be misshapen or deformed and the reason that the child was born this way was proof of a sinful nature. Thus, she claims in her confession, she gave birth to such a child, her second, and it only lived for a brief time, like her first. It is no stretch of the imagination to conclude that Patience blamed her child's misshapen form and death on her own sinful behavior. Patience accused herself once more of infanticide, claiming that she was responsible for the death of her second child as she was for the first. The court took this seriously. She took them to the place where she claimed she buried her misshapen child. There was no corpse. The court ordered her to be examined by midwives who concluded that she had not recently given birth. Had there even been a second child at all or was this second claim of infanticide a sign of some kind of deep mental illness on her part? A need for attention, a call for help? The local authorities pronounced her not guilty as there was no proof. Her husband effectively abandoned her after this debacle and Boston is not heard from again. At this point, Patience is indentured to the family of Benjamin Skillin in Falmouth, modern day Portland, Maine. She leaves Massachusetts forever. The events so far show us a young woman who, at the age of three, was removed from her native culture and family to live with English settlers. When she comes of age, she is a young woman without a place in the world - she does not belong to the tribe in that she was not brought up as one of them. She does not belong to the English community, because as a Native American, she would always be an outsider. She gains her freedom only to sell it again so she can be with a man who is rarely home and then abandons her. She is now working for a family of strangers in a new place, a place unfamiliar and for her, it must have been even more lonely and isolating. She claims that she hated her position and her master. She writes about wanting to poison him and either cannot find the courage or the opportunity to kill him in that manner. She decides instead to kill his favorite grandchild, an 8 year old boy who she claims to love, named Benjamin Trott. One day, with the entire family gone and while in her charge, she calls him to a well either in or near the forest and tells him that a stick has fallen into it and she needs help retrieving it. He obliges and while bent over, she claims she pushed him in and held him down under the water with another stick until he drowns. From there, she immediately goes to a neighboring house and confesses her deed. She is taken into custody and placed in York jail, which is, coincidently, not very far away from the workplace of Joseph and Samuel Moody. There, she confesses to the willful murder of the child. Because she confesses, there is no trial. Instead, she needs to be sentenced by the court that tries capital cases and that is a traveling court that visits York only once a year. She is incarcerated until they return the next year. What makes the case even stranger is that at the time of her incarceration, Patience is pregnant for a third time. Or perhaps only her second. While in jail, she is visited often by the Moodys who listen to her and witness her conversion, pledging her life to Jesus and narrating to them one of the most remarkable narratives in early American history. Samuel Moody is convinced in the sincerity of her knowledge of possessing the ‘irresistible grace' that he, too, has felt, from God. She is so convinced that she committed the crime that she asks to do something that might be thought of as the time's equivalent of a lie-detector test. In front of the Coroner's Jury, she asks to touch the body of young Benjamin Trott. At the time, there were limited methods of investigating crimes and science and logic did not always play as large a role as they do today. They had their own methods from times past. According to English folk belief, it was thought that the body of a murder victim retained some form of mystical connection to the perpetrator. If the murderer touched or somehow came into contact with the victim's body, it was believed that the corpse would bleed, that the blood would rise to the murderer's touch. This ‘trial by touch' was allowed in Patience's case. Young Trott's body did not bruise, move or bleed at her touch, which was some proof that she did not commit this crime she admitted to. She disputed the results of this test, and perhaps she was troubled about it. Perhaps Joseph Moody was, too. “The Faithful Narrative of the Wicked Life and Remarkable Conversion of Patience Boston” will one day become a pamphlet one could buy in any of the colonies. A repentant sinner who has experienced the irresistible grace of God, she impresses the Moodys in her earnestness and calm, convincing old Samuel that she is one of the elect, as far as he can tell. At the gallows, a man who was well-known for doubting anyone's chances of salvation, proclaims that he is fairly certain that if Patience is telling the truth about the murder of Benjamin Trott, that she would be in Paradise with the Elect after her execution. How strange to say that if she was ‘telling the truth', then she would be saved. Was he somehow saying publicly that he was absolving himself of his part in this affair, that the lie was hers to own, not his? Did he know she was lying? She was hanged. Her grave is unmarked and unknown. Thus, we have the confession of a sinner and a murderer and that is the end of it. That is how it rested for two hundred years or more. But this is where things begin to fall apart. Let's imagine another scenario. This is not the one that will be written about, published and sold to the edification of the righteous. This one,however, might be true. On the day in question, Patience Boston is left alone to care for young 8 year old Benjamin Trott. They are together on the property and she leaves him alone for a few moments while attending to one of the many chores she is required to complete before the family returns home. She calls for young Benjamin and he does not answer. Searching for him, she finds him in the well, drowned, unable to climb out of the water on his own. She knows this is all her fault, that she should have been watching him and not knowing what else to do, she goes to the neighbors house and explains what has happened. One can imagine her taking the blame for the boy's death, claiming that is “all my fault.” They hold her there, a native American servant with no real rights, and go to the well, finding the boy's body as she had told them. They immediately take her to the jail, the place in the settlement where the men of the law could question her. It is not out of the question to surmise that Joseph Moody, Town Clerk, Register of Deeds, Schoolmaster and minister might have been the first to know of her presence there and he visits her in the jail, most likely accompanied by his father, the Reverend Mr. Samuel Moody of the long prayer. Samuel sees one of the most wretched sights of his life sitting on the cold stone floor of the cell, a Native American indentured woman who has a known history of having claimed to have murdered her own children, though most people doubt the veracity of her wild assertions.. She is known to be a person who has made unsubstantiated claims in the past. And it is then that I believe Samuel Moody makes a decision as the senior pastor of the Church, a decision that will strengthen his standing among the people, a decision that will haunt Joseph for the remainder of his life. There she was, confused and alone in the world without any champions or rights, a person without support. She feels responsible for the deaths of her own children, though it seems highly likely that she did not actually murder them, and now there is another child whose life was taken because of her own negligence. She feels responsible for the child's death, she decides, and she will most certainly burn in the fires of Hell for all eternity. She is being punished by God and she is lost, alone, and wretched. In walks Samuel Moody, powerful, and able to speak with confidence about the assurance of salvation and the grace of God. In walks Joseph Moody right behind him, the chronicler of her story, two men whose lives are at this moment intersecting with the life of Patience Boston. Words were said among sinners in that cell, words that convinced Patience to repent and confess and accept the irresistible grace that must surely be hers, even though she die upon the gallows for it. If you tell someone they are guilty often enough, if you repeatedly beat them down with their own words, you can make them believe and say things that simply are not true. Did Samuel and Joseph Moody convince her that she was truly guilty of pushing the boy into the well, not just of negligence because she was not focused on his whereabouts at the time? Might someone already convinced of the verdict of God against her be easy to manipulate? During her time in jail, she had moments where she despairs, moments where her anxiety about burning in Hell nearly totally consumes her. She gives birth to her child in that cell. She is allowed out to go to Church where her evil nature would be reinforced, but at least she got to leave once a week. There was no doubt as the days turned into weeks that sooner rather than later she would be executed. This gave Patience plenty of time to question her confession and that was when Joseph came to visit with his pen and paper. Sitting through hour after hour of conversation and counseling, he made sure she told him everything about her, her entire life story. One can well imagine how the more sensitive Joseph could listen with a sympathetic ear and bond with Patience, always assuring her that if she would only submit herself to the Lord, she might be gifted with that irresistible grace that would assure her she was one of his Elect, though it is very likely that Joseph never once felt that way himself. She continued to vacillate, to be unsure about having pushed young Trott into the well which would be murder or having merely lost track of where he was and therefore to be guilty only of negligence. It was a very difficult time for her. The visits from the two clergymen continue, likely her only visitors, and if old Samuel prayed with her, it is likely that he spoke out the entire narrative aloud as he prayed. And it must have been the tale we eventually read in the pamphlet that he and his son Joseph put together and even share on the gallows just before her hanging. I believe she eventually gave way, because one day she is described as being very calm and bright, happy to go to her end, convinced that she was blessed with the true knowledge that she was going to be with the Lord. She had finally found the grace that Preparationist Predestination promises. It was proof to her that she was saved. But was she? Or was she simply brainwashed into believing that the narrative outlined by the Moodys was in fact correct and that she did willfully murder young Benjamin Trott by luring him to the well and pushing him down into the water? Though she may not have actually done this, over time did she come to believe that she might as well have and if she might as well have, then she did, in truth, willfully kill him when in all likelihood, she did not? Just as she did not kill her other two children? Just as she confessed to crimes in the past that she obviously did not commit? Samuel and Joseph Moody had a great conversion tale to tell the world, a profound prison confession that clearly showed the power of the Holy Spirit moving through the most unworthy among them in the village. If Patience Boston could feel the grace of God, the power of the Holy Spirit moving through her, was this not proof of the power and glory of the Lord? After she was hanged, she was quickly forgotten, as was the written record scribed by Joseph Moody. One thing led to another and the Moodys never did publish her story to the world. It was only when a minister from Boston saw the story while visiting the Moodys that they decided to give this tale more attention and it was published not in York but in Boston and it quickly became a best-seller in the colonies. The names of Patience Boston and the Moodys were on the lips of many as they read the story to the family after prayers in the evening. How remarkable.! How full of wonder! What I find remarkable about this is that the publication of her story, which didn't occur until three years after her execution, coincides with Joseph's breakdown and the first wearing of the cloth over his face. What if Joseph Moody had reservations about the guilt of Patience Boston? What if he had helped an innocent woman to confess something that she did not do, or what if he had seen the actual truth and said nothing, allowing events to unfold as they did? What troubled Joseph so much that three years after her death, he effectively shuts himself off from the society of others? Did he feel guilt for his part in her execution? Did he feel pain at the orphaning of her child? Did he feel anger at his father for using this poor woman as an example, possibly because she was easily manipulated? Did he truly believe in her guilt or was he haunted by it because he lacked the strength to oppose his father at the time when it was needed the most? He never told anyone why he hid from them. In the end, my supposition is based upon a single thread, trying to make sense of an educated man's choice to separate himself from the people, and an uneducated woman's supposed confession, having confessed previously to murders she did not actually commit. While it is not clear how often Joseph Moody wore the veil, or even if he did at all, it is clear that he spent a great deal of time with a young woman who was troubled and lost, apart from her people, belonging nowhere, not even to Heaven above. He scribed her words and, alone in the cell with her, he may have grown to see the truth, something that is difficult to see when you're the only one who does. He was a sensitive man, by all accounts, and might well have been troubled by the conversion of Patience Boston, suspecting that it was insincere, a kind of wish-fulfillment on her part and a promise given by his father to her that should never have been offered. Did Patience admit a false confession to the murder of Benjamin Trott? It's possible and the good people of Old York knew it, too. All we have are modern studies to back this up, but according to the Innocence Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals, false confessions were a factor in about 25% of the DNA exonerations in the United States. In her case, Patience may have likely had mental health problems that made her susceptible to making false confessions under even the slightest pressure. In a world where nothing you could do could save your soul from eternal damnation, anything was better than nothing, even confessing to murder and then claiming to be saved, convincing yourself that everything will be fine and supported by God's top representative in the land, the good Reverend Samuel Moody. If the timing of the publication of Patience Boston's confession and Joseph Moody's subsequent donning of the veil is mere coincidence, then it is a strange one indeed. Was Patience Boston a murderer or did young Trott simply fall into a well and drown, an unfortunate accident, but an accident nonetheless? Did Joseph Moody ever find peace, ever feel that he was one of God's chosen? Did he wear the veil to hide the secret sin in his part of convincing and selling the idea of Patience's guilt to people of York, even when many disputed it? Time has a way of blinding as well as of enlightening. For over two hundred years, a young native American woman has been claimed to be one of New England's foulest murderers of children, but was she? Or was she a tool for a powerful man who used her very life as a way of upholding his power in a world where the Devil lived in the darkness of the forest and where the damned walked the earth for only a span? REFERENCES Bailey, Alfred. “MOODY, SAMUEL,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 28, 2023, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/moody_samuel_3E.html. Boston, Patience. “A faithful narrative of the wicked life and remarkable conversion of Patience Boston alias Samson; who was executed at York, in the County of York, July 24th. 1735. for the murder of Benjamin Trot of Falmouth in Casco Bay, a child of about eight years of age, whom she drowned in a well. : With a preface by the Reverend Messi. Samuel & Joseph Moody, Pastors of the churches in said town. : [Six lines of Scripture texts]” Joseph and Samuel Moody, Editors. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N03473.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Bottino, Danny & Peterson, Hannah.“Patience Boston, Life and Execution in York, Maine”. York Maine History. Jan 3 2023. Carmona, Vana. “Patience Boston 1711-1735 – The Atlantic Black Box Project.” Atlantic Black Box, 28 September 2020, https://atlanticblackbox.com/2020/09/28/patience-boston-1726-1735/. Accessed 28 July 2023. Siebert, Jr, Frank T. “MOG,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 28, 2023, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mog_2E.html.

Thursday Night Live, The Outer Realm welcomes Kim Moser. Discussion: Paranormal Experiences, connecting with the Dead, Shadow People and more. Kim is a featured guest speaker at the upcoming Halifax Paranormal Symposium on October 7th, 2023 https://www.ppri.net/halifax-paranormal-symposium/ About Our Guest: Hailing from the East Coast of Canada, Kim has always had a passion for finding out all she can regarding the paranormal. Her journey really took off when her maternal grandmother passed away, and she came to say goodbye at the exact time of her passing in a dream. Before visiting a reportedly haunted location, Kim will often dream of the spirits who reside there. She has worked in a series of media formats, from podcast inceptions to writing for television shows. More recently she has been directing documentary-style television series. She taps into her folklorist roots by telling stories that take your mind on a visual journey. Kim is currently a paranormal investigator in her down time, and has been to some of the most haunted locations in North America. The Conjuring House, the Lizzie Borden House, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, Waverly Hills Sanitorium and the Fortress of Louisbourg are some of her favourite haunts. Website: http://www.kimmoser.info/ Instagram @kimsdarkerside

In this, the final episode of our series on Quebec, Britain launches a major offensive in the Seven Years War, including attacks on all French forts in Canada. Get behind the ramparts, watch out for flying cannonballs, and let find out what happens!Support the show

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Canada has committed to protecting twenty-five per cent of its land and waters by 2025 and there's a new conservation designation to reach the goal. Jared Tomie, an Ecologist with Cape Breton Highlands National Park, explains why the Fortress of Louisbourg is one of the sites to receive the designation.

In this episode, we find traces of the lives of enslaved people at the 18th-century French Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. By piecing together the unique story of Guinea-born Marie Marguerite Rose, we'll learn about those who lived and died in enslavement…as well as the rise and fall (and rise again) of the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site. Special thanks to our Consulting Producers: Dr. Karolyn Smardz-Frost and Dr. Afua Cooper of A Black People's History of Canada Project: https://www.blackpeopleshistory.ca/ Learn More: Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site: https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/louisbourg Marie Marguerite Rose, National Historic Person: https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=12005 Plan your visit: https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/louisbourg/visit Google Arts and Culture Exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/vQVxpt_04-996g Do you have a suggestion for a new National Historic Person, Site or Event? We'd love to hear it! Visit https://parks.canada.ca/commemorate for details on how to submit a nomination. A transcript and bibliography for this episode is available on our website: https://parks.canada.ca/recollections 

The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760

Cyril MacDonald represents district 3, which includes George's River, Boisdale, Christmas Island, Eskasoni, Northside East Bay, and Coxheath. James Edwards represents district 8, which includes part of Glace Bay, Donkin, Port Morien, Mira Gut, Albert Bridge, and Louisbourg.

Mallory Moran is an archaeologist with Parks Canada. She talks to our Cape Breton Current Affairs Correspondent Brittany Wentzell about how Fiona affected a burial site at the Fortress of Louisbourg.

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De 1683 à 1760, soit pendant près de 80 ans, on les retrouvait en poste à Plaisance, à la Nouvelle-Orléans, à Louisbourg, à Détroit et à Montréal, entre autres. Ils assuraient la sécurité de la population, ils protégeaient les frontières et ils défendaient les possessions françaises en Amériques. Adhérez à cette chaîne pour obtenir des avantages : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4TCCaX-gqBNkrUqXdgGRA/join Pour soutenir financièrement la chaîne, trois choix: 1. Cliquez sur le bouton « Adhérer » sous la vidéo. 2. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hndl 3. UTip: https://utip.io/lhistoirenousledira Avec: Laurent Turcot, professeur en histoire à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Script: Geneviève C. Bergeron Montage: Jean-François Blais Musique issue du site : epidemicsound.com Abonnez-vous à ma chaine: https://www.youtube.com/c/LHistoirenousledira Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/histoirenousledira Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurentturcot Les vidéos sont utilisées à des fins éducatives selon l'article 107 du Copyright Act de 1976 sur le Fair-Use. Pour aller plus loin: Marcel Fournier, dir., Les officiers des troupes de la Marine au Canada : 1683-1760, Québec, Septentrion, 2017. https://www.septentrion.qc.ca/catalogue/officiers-des-troupes-de-la-marine-au-canada-les René Chartrand, Le patrimoine militaire canadien. D'hier à aujourd'hui, tome 1 : 1000 à 1754, Montréal, Art global, 1993. https://www.canada.ca/fr/ministere-defense-nationale/services/histoire-militaire/histoire-patrimoine/histoires-militaire-lignees-officielles/general/livre-1993-patrimoine-militaire-1.html Louise Dechêne, Le peuple, l'État et la guerre au Canada sous le Régime français, Montréal, 2008. https://www.editionsboreal.qc.ca/catalogue/livres/peuple-etat-guerre-canada-sous-regime-1563.html   #histoire #documentaire

Historian David O Stewart discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. A recovering lawyer and proud graduate of Curtis High School on Staten Island, David Stewart has published five books of history and four historical novels. His most recent nonfiction work, George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father, has won several awards and was a finalist for Mount Vernon's George Washington Prize. His most recent novel, The New Land, was inspired by family stories his mother told, and is the first of a trilogy. He lives in Maryland with his wife of 48 years, Nancy; they have three children and five grandchildren. His website is www.davidostewart.com. His non-fiction books include The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution, Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy, Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America, and American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America. His fiction books include The Lincoln Deception, The Paris Deception and The Babe Ruth Deception. George Washington's political skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_political_evolution Philip Noel-Baker https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/231/Philip-Noel-Baker The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey https://chandlersfordtoday.co.uk/allison-symes-book-review-the-daughter-of-time-by-josephine-tey/ The Valle de los Caidos monument https://makespain.com/listing/valle-de-los-caidos/ The battles of Louisbourg in 1745 and 1758 https://www.thoughtco.com/french-indian-war-siege-of-louisbourg-2360795 The 1868 impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-johnson.htm This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

We hear how a Quebec team is working to recreate Fortress Louisbourg using Legos.

The pandemic slow down allowed the S&L Railway Museum in Louisbourg to speed up plans for renovations and ways to diversify their programming.

The Fortress of Louisbourg is looking at becoming more accessible. The challenge: 18th century structures and landscaping weren't designed with that in mind.

The Fortress of Louisbourg Association has a new four-part escape room adventure, and it's open to the public now. We took the time to learn more about The Siren's Curse.

Celebrity interior designers and lifestyle guides Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan talk about making a new home Cape Breton, and opening a hotel and dining business in Louisbourg.

The Federal government announced funding yesterday to help re-open the school in Louisbourg as a community hub. Brett Hanham, the co-chair of the community group trying to make it happen.

We have a panel discussion with three Caper's about how they're feeling the impact of high fuel prices. Jenny Hughes lives in Brook Village in Inverness County. She works at L'Arche Cape Breton in Iron Mines. Tim LeVangie owns and operates the farm "Thyme for Ewe", in Millville. Cheryl Hutt lives in Louisbourg and she works at the Fortress in the finance department. She regularly travels to Coxheath to be with her father.

James Edwards represents district 8, which includes part of Glace Bay, Donkin, Port Morien, Mira Gut, Albert Bridge, and Louisbourg. And Eldon MacDonald represents district 5, which includes Sydney from Sydney River to the north end, Shipyard, Membertou, and part of Mira Road.

British forces cleanse Acadia of French inhabitants and the Fortress of Louisbourg falls.

British forces cleanse Acadia of French inhabitants and the Fortress of Louisbourg falls.

The CBC's Brett Ruskin brings us to Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, into the moment when military personnel destroyed vintage cannon balls found in storage at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site.

Reporter Brett Ruskin describes what happened after Parks Canada removed one hundred explosive cannonballs from Fortress of Louisbourg, earlier this month. Brett witnessed the disposal of the vintage cannonballs that contained potentially hazardous black powder.

We whip up another edition of Breaking Bread with some 18th century flavour. CBC Cape Breton's Brittany Wentzell stopped by the Fortress of Louisbourg to see how costumed animators keep the French bread-baking traditions alive.

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Our history column, Not So Tall Tales has Current Affairs correspondent Brittany Wentzell dropping by museums across Cape Breton this summer. Today, some stories from the Sydney and Louisbourg Railway Museum.

As a must see destination, the Fortress of Louisbourg is often full of guides, visitors, and animators. But did you know, it's also full of a species at risk? Current Affairs Correspondent Brittany Wentzell met Allison Moody, an ecosystem scientist with Parks Canada, to find out why the historic attraction is so attractive to swallows.

We launch a new column featuring favourite true tales from some of the animators and the interpreters at Cape Breton's museums. Current Affairs correspondent Brittany Wentzell spoke to the folks at the Fortress of Louisbourg in our first episode.

Alexandre Coupal revient sur la demi-finale des séries de la Ligue nationale de hockey (LNH); Jean-Luc Brassard nous parle du sang des personnes qui résident à haute altitude; le biologiste Daniel Ricard discute des nouvelles espèces trouvées dans les filets de pêche de la Nouvelle-Écosse; Evelyne Charuest donne des détails sur le film Pinocchio, de Matteo Garrone; la Dre Caroline Quach-Thanh fait le point sur la COVID-19; Evelyne Ferron fait une chronique historique sur le site de Louisbourg en 1758; Stéphane Lajoie, président fondateur de Trimoz Technologies et directeur général de Clic Santé, raconte l'histoire de la création de cette plateforme; Hugo Latulippe, cinéaste et auteur, parle de la dixième Rencontre photographique de Kamouraska; Hassoun Camara nous fait passer un dimanche avec lui; et Jim Corcoran se rappelle quelques souvenirs de spectacles.

James Edwards represents district 8, which includes part of Glace Bay, Donkin, Port Morien, Mira Gut, Albert Bridge, and Louisbourg. Lorne Green represents district 12, which includes part of Sydney, Whitney Pier, South Bar, Victoria Mines, Lingan Rd, and Grand Lake Rd.

In episode 47 John from Perth asked a question which Chris answered in Maritime History. We chat about the latest cruise news and Damian from NCL joins the show to update us on everything Norwegian.This podcast is only possible thanks to our supporters, simply buying a coffee keeps us on air. It is just like shouting your mate a coffee, and we consider our listeners close mates.  https://bit.ly/2T2FYGXNorwegian Spirit in Sydney. 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P&O, Princess & Saga have already welcomed the news.Cunard has revealed Queen Elizabeth will undertake her first circumnavigation of Australia as part of a newly unveiled homeport season scheduled for 2022/23.The record local deployment will span from Nov 2022 to Mar 2023, and visit 15 Australian ports, including Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, Burnie, Fremantle, Cairns, and Darwin, offering sailings ranging between two and 31 nights.Queen Elizabeth's circumnavigations include calls to Port Douglas, Airlie Beach, Esperance, Eden and Kangaroo Island, with the 25-day voyage departing Fremantle on 07 Nov 2022, a 28-day round-Australia sailing departing Sydney on 15 Nov 2022Oceania Breaks Sales record – Oceania Cruises, the world's leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line, announced that the launch of its latest collection of exotic itineraries for winter 2022-2023 on March 3rd resulted in an all-time record, with the most bookings taken in a single day in the company's 18-year historyFred. 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In part 2 of our trip around Cape Breton, Meggan and Jenn chat about the Eastern side of Cape Breton, including Sydney, the former capital of the island! There are so many small towns to visit, we think you should spend lots of time exploring this magical island. Blog PostsFortress of Louisbourg (Meggan)Fortress of Louisbourg (Jenn) Book that cabin in Coxheath here!*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every few weeks as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:FacebookInstagramJenn’s Travel Blog Jenn’s YouTube channelMeggan’s Travel BlogMeggan and husband Peter’s YouTubeDisclaimer - all episodes are our opinions/experiences, always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.

Community historian Jim St. Clair tells the story of a soldier--and distant Scottish relative--who played a role in the final seige of Louisbourg and the Plains of Abraham, but who then joined the American revolutionary army... and who would go on to become a member of America's Electoral College.

In reel time. We catch up with the Ocearch team off the coast of Louisbourg as they get set to tag and track more great white sharks off our coast.

Jen and Kim travel to the Fortress of Louisbourg, which was built by the French in the early 1700's as a gateway to New France. There were 2 sieges of the fort by the British, lots of bloodshed, lots of disease, and now there are LOTS of creepy feelings and sightings of ghosts. Bodies buried under the chapel, moans coming from the jail, a haunted bakery and a mass grave are just some of the items discussed in this episode. They talk about some recent paranormal activity and some personal account stories from people who work there now. The ladies pair these ghost stories with Woodford Reserve Double Oaked.

Back in 1758, French forces surrendered the Fortress of Louisbourg after a 7 week siege by the British.

Persevering to preserve history. We check in with three small community museums in Cape Breton to find out how they're managing the pandemic, and their approach to operations this summer. Lisette Bourgeois is executive director of La Societe Saint-Pierre which runs the museum at Les Trois Pignons cultural centre in Cheticamp. Chris Bellemore is President of the Sydney and Louisbourg Railway Museum Society. And Del Muise is chair of the board of the Margaree Salmon Museum.

In this fourth part of my review of MONTCALM AND WOLFE by Francis Parkman, we look at some major battled of the French and Indian War included the siege of Louisbourg (again), the rise of General Wolfe, and the setting for the invasion of Canada.

Over the weekend, the Federal government announced another aid package, the Canadian Seafood Stabilization Fund will help the fish processing sector. So we check in on how Louisbourg Seafoods is weathering the COVID-19 storm. The general counsel and senior manager at Louisbourg Seafoods is Damien Barry.

Louisbourg's Cody Kennedy appeared on Ellen's "Game of Games." He talks about the experience with Wendy Bergfeldt.

Life by-the-sea and resettled peoples have shaped every part of Nova Scotia life and culture. When the ocean calls the shots, you need to put down deep roots to thrive, and whether they be new or old, that’s exactly what Nova Scotians have done.

La Nouvelle-Écosse est le berceau des premiers francophones de l'Amérique du Nord. Ils se sont établis en 1605 à Port-Royal, au bord de la baie de Fundy où les marées sont les plus hautes du monde. La Nouvelle-Écosse est aussi connue pour la Cabot Trail, une route construite le long de falaises escarpées qui se jettent dans l'océan Atlantique. Et puis, il ne faut pas manquer le lieu historique de la Forteresse de Louisbourg. Candace Hurlbur est conseillère à Tourisme Nouvelle-Écosse. Durée : 8 minutes 15 secondes https://www.rcinet.ca/fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sur_les_routes_du_Canada-E03-Destination_Nouvelle-Ecosse.mp3

Este verano, el euskera ha vuelto a la fortaleza de Louisbourg, en Nueva Escocia (Canadá). Existen documentos del siglo XVIII que certifican la huella vasca en este importante asentamiento comercial y militar: En 1744 la presencia de pescadores y otros trabajadores vascos en la zona fue muy habitual, llegando a constituir el 20% de la población y convirtiendo el euskera en la segunda lengua más hablada de la colonia. Hoy día Louisbourg es la mayor reconstrucción de este tipo de América del Norte y gracias a un proyecto pionero de Parks Canada y Jauzarrea, el fondo para el estudio y difusión de la cultura vasca, la cultura vasca y el euskera se ha convertido en un reclamo más este verano. Tal y como ha avanzado en Onda Vasca Xabi Otero, fundador de Jauzarrea, este será uno de los proyectos protagonistas del congreso anual que este año tendrá lugar el 18 de octubre en el auditorio de Orona Fundazioa, en Hernani. Más información en jauzarrea.com y en sus perfiles de Twitter y Facebook.

Este verano, el euskera ha vuelto a la fortaleza de Louisbourg, en Nueva Escocia (Canadá). Existen documentos del siglo XVIII que certifican la huella vasca en este importante asentamiento comercial y militar: En 1744 la presencia de pescadores y otros trabajadores vascos en la zona fue muy habitual, llegando a constituir el 20% de la población y convirtiendo el euskera en la segunda lengua más hablada de la colonia. Hoy día Louisbourg es la mayor reconstrucción de este tipo de América del Norte y gracias a un proyecto pionero de Parks Canada y Jauzarrea, el fondo para el estudio y difusión de la cultura vasca, la cultura vasca y el euskera se ha convertido en un reclamo más este verano. Tal y como ha avanzado en Onda Vasca Xabi Otero, fundador de Jauzarrea, este será uno de los proyectos protagonistas del congreso anual que este año tendrá lugar el 18 de octubre en el auditorio de Orona Fundazioa, en Hernani. Más información en jauzarrea.com y en sus perfiles de Twitter y Facebook.

Boston and Quebec City share a deeply intertwined history that goes back to the earliest days of English settlement in North America. Puritan Boston could hardly stand the idea that their closest European neighbor was a Catholic colony, and they made many attempts to drive the hated French from the continent. To defeat the French, the New Englanders would have to take fortresses at Louisbourg, Quebec, and Montreal. We recently talked about the 1745 siege of Louisbourg, but this week we’re going even further back in time. In 1690, Sir William Phips, the frontier shepherd who found a sunken treasure and became a knight, led a large fleet of ships and over 2000 soldiers out of Boston. Their goal was to reduce the defenses of Quebec and force the French colonists to submit to the British crown, but the result was a total disaster. Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/146

This week we continue to look at 1758 as the British make attacks on Louisbourg, Fort Frontenac and Fort Duquesne.

This week’s show is about the namesake of the famous Louisbourg Square on Beacon Hill, an astonishing 1745 military victory won by a Massachusetts volunteer army made up of farmers, seamen, and merchants. After war broke out with France the year before, Governor William Shirley proposed a daring plan to attack the French fortress of Louisbourg. Located on Cape Breton Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, Louisbourg was considered impregnable. Through a combination of luck, good leadership, and gallant conduct, the New England army conquered the Gibraltar of North America. However, the victory was short lived, setting the stage for two wars that American history remembers more clearly. Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/132

This week we look at more things going wrong for the British as they try take Louisbourg.

This week’s episode is extra special, as we have TWO phenomenal guests on: Dr. David Ebert and Dr. Amy Scott are here to talk about life and food at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia! This episode runs a bit longer than most, because I wanted to weave together multiple ways of looking at and celebrating the past, and the role that the past plays for contemporary Canadians. Louisbourg is truly one of the most magical places I’ve been to, and Amy and David play a huge role in why I love the Fortress so much. In the first part of the episode, I speak with David Ebert, who is part of the management team for Parks Canada’s Cape Breton team and the Fortress of Louisbourg. We explore the history of the Fortress, and he discusses what makes it such a fascinating part of Canadian and French history. David paints a vivid picture of what food and life were life for residents of the fortress during the 1700s, and the ways food is used now to make modern visits to the Fortress sensorial and interactive (aka super fun!) During the second part, I speak with Dr. Amy Scott, an anthropology professor from the University of New Brunswick, and the project director of the bioarchaelogy field school at the Fortress. Dr. Scott has teamed up with Parks Canada for a long-term rescue archaeology project designed to document and protect the burial grounds out at Rochefort Point, where the shoreline has retreated about 90m in the past 300 years. I speak with Amy about the bioarchaeology side of things – we look at how we can learn about individual lives, stresses, health, mobility and diet just from their skeletal remains and burial context! Parks Canada creates such an immersive experience and Amy’s UNB team does a fabulous job connecting with the public and engaging in dialogues about climate change in Canada and how it impacts not only our present but our past. It was such an honour to speak with these two about their work because they’re both so passionate and engaging! Resources       Fortress of Louisbourg Association: http://www.fortressoflouisbourg.ca/ Parks Canada Website: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/louisbourg UNB Bioarch Website: http://unb.ca/bioarchaeology Field School on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unbbioarchaeologyfieldschool/ Field School on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unbbioarchaeologyfieldschool/

This is part two of my chat with Sarah Duignan. Part one is available  (https://aaronschlein.com/sarah-duignan-pt-1/) . RESOURCES MENTIONED Book: Evelyn Waugh (https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dramatictrave-20&keywords=evelyn+waugh&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=a4c6addcb5701cb5da97884837d058dd) ABOUT SARAH DUIGNAN ​ Sarah Duignan is a mother, a PhD candidate, and the host of (https://anthrodish.ca/home/) , a weekly podcast about food, culture, and identity. Sarah lives in Toronto, Canada and she is currently studying the anthropology of health at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada. She also works as a bio-archaeologist in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. She also worked for a number of years in Belize. CONNECT WITH SARAH Website:  AnthroDish.ca (https://anthrodish.ca) Facebook: @AnthroDish (https://www.facebook.com/anthrodish/) Instagram: @sinsarahdee (https://www.instagram.com/sinsarahdee)

This is part one of my chat with Sarah Duignan. Part two is available (../sarah-duignan-pt-2/) . RESOURCES MENTIONED Book: Evelyn Waugh (https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dramatictrave-20&keywords=evelyn+waugh&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=a4c6addcb5701cb5da97884837d058dd) ABOUT SARAH DUIGNAN ​ Sarah Duignan is a mother, a PhD candidate, and the host of (https://anthrodish.ca/home/) , a weekly podcast about food, culture, and identity. Sarah lives in Toronto, Canada and she is currently studying the anthropology of health at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada. She also works as a bio-archaeologist in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. She also worked for a number of years in Belize. CONNECT WITH SARAH Website:  AnthroDish.ca (https://anthrodish.ca) Facebook: @AnthroDish (https://www.facebook.com/anthrodish/) Instagram: @sinsarahdee (https://www.instagram.com/sinsarahdee)

In the final quarter of 2017 I'm concentrating on the French & Indian War. This first episode is an introduction, giving me a chance to take my listeners along for this ride in history. Perhaps you'll jump onboard and experience some of these games or movies with me. Hand-drawn map by George Washington, accompanying a printing of the journal he kept of his 1753 expedition into the Ohio Country. I realize that what I'm calling the French & Indian War is really the North American theater of the Seven Years War (sometimes nicknamed World War Zero), when France and England battled for global dominance throughout the newly expanding colonial world. There were conflicts in mainland Europe, too. I'm not exploring those--I'm just looking at the conflicts of Quebec, Fort William Henry, the forks of the Ohio, the siege of Louisbourg, and so on. However, my reading about the French & Indian WAR (singular) has quickly reminded me that this conflict from 1754-1763 was preceded by a few other wars between roughly the same sides: English colonies versus the French & Indian-allied forces. I have a suspicion I'll be looking into those, too. One thing that jumped out at me when I created this subject's geeklist is how many good light/short/hybrid wargames there are on it. From Quebec 1759 (Columbia's first block wargame in 1972!) to A Few Acres of Snow or 1754 Conquest (published in 2011 & 2017, respectively), there are a bunch of great choices for wargamers like me that prefer the lighter end of our hobby. I'm still curious about larger hexmap wargames, and the famous CDG on this topic, too. Map of Louisbourg and its artillery batteries in 1751. In the podcast I get to talk about the games I saw & played at the recent GMT Weekend at the Warehouse event, too. This is practically in my back yard (a 3-hour drive), so I hope to continue to go to this event once or twice per year. Next month I'll also be going to BGGcon in Dallas, where I'll be playing both wargames and euros. Hope to see you there! Say hi and ask for a podcast button to display proudly! -Mark This 1797 engraving is based on a sketch made by Hervey Smyth, General Wolfe's aide-de-camp during the siege of Quebec. A view of the taking of Quebec, 13th September 1759. Movies • Last of the Mohicans (1992) • Last of the Mohicans (1920) silent • Northwest Passage more about Robert's Rangers than the passage • Fort Ti I think this is on YouTube • Barry Lyndon I know this is European Seven Year War, but it's also Kubrick   Remember to follow along & chime in on my geeklist/discussion) for all of my French & Indian War explorations. If you're a wargamer on social media, follow me on Twitter (@WargamesToGo). Feedback is always welcome.

Gen. Amherst captures Louisbourg in Britain's first major victory of the French and Indian War.  The British follow up with a successful raid on Fort Frontenac.  In Pennsylvania, the British sign the Treaty of Eastong.  This ends most of the military opposition of Indians in the Ohio Valley.   For more text, pictures, maps, and sources, please visit my site at AmRevPodcast.Blogspot.com.    

Gen. Amherst captures Louisbourg in Britain's first major victory of the French and Indian War.  The British follow up with a successful raid on Fort Frontenac.  In Pennsylvania, the British sign the Treaty of Eastong.  This ends most of the military opposition of Indians in the Ohio Valley.   For more text, pictures, maps, and sources, please visit my site at AmRevPodcast.Blogspot.com.    

Join my email list at http://www.DavidCBarnett.com Learn to buy a business at http://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Run a better business at http://www.EasySmallBizSystems.com Article cited: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201006/the-importance-vacations-our-physical-and-mental-health Related article: I took the kids on a 5-day trip to Cape Breton Island. We saw the Fortress of Louisbourg, the tall ships in Sydney Harbour, the Alexander Graham Bell historic site, the Cabot Trail and the site of Marconi’s first operational trans-Atlantic radio base. It was a blast. In this week’s video, I talk about the trip but also about why vacation time is so important. You need to break your routine to come up with the ideas that ultimately create value. Your business is an asset that should be delivering this lifestyle. Don’t believe me? I’ll show you some cool stuff from an article published in Psychology Today all about why we need to get away. Watch as I talk about the amazing trip I had and why vacation time is so important if you run or will be running your own business: https://youtu.be/moQ2WJ2v4SA Join the small army of smart business people who’ve learned how to buy a business successfully with my Business Buyer Advantage Program. You can access the course at www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com and learn more about how it works from this video I made in the spring: https://youtu.be/ooixMSaFf6Y Learn how to better manage your small business with my easy method of organizing yourself. Learn more at www.EasySmallBizSystems.com FREE- Download a copy of my e-book; 12 Things to do Before You Consider Selling Your Business. (No, I will not put you on an e-mail marketing list) Please remember to share this article, it’s the only way the people who run the internet have of knowing if the content is any good or not. The more you share, the more likely someone who needs this information will be able to find it. Go to www.DavidCBarnett.com and sign up for my weekly e-mail. Easy unsubscribe at any time as I use MailChimp and I’m not interested in harassing people who don’t want to hear from me. If you’re into podcasts, you can now easily subscribe to the audio of all my new videos on iTunes. This summer & fall I’ll be in Halifax (www.ceed.ca), Moncton, NYC, Orlando & Toronto. Find out more and sign up at http://davidbarnett.eventbrite.com (maybe Boston too, stay tuned.) Thank you and I’ll see you next time.

David Ebert says much can be learned about life at the Louisbourg fortress from the objects and remains that are unearthed.

Step through Louisbourg's fortress walls and time-warp back to the 1700s.  It's so real, it seems surreal. Support the show: https://www.theinformedtraveler.org/

Step through Louisbourg's fortress walls and time-warp back to the 1700s.  It's so real, it seems surreal. Support the show: https://www.theinformedtraveler.org/

1758 was a special year. After nearly three years of misfortune and less than spectacular results, the British marked the year with a victory and a defeat. The great French fortress at Louisbourg fell to the British, but their assault of Fort Carillon met with disaster. Join us in our continuing discussion of the Seven Years War. If you would like more information, please join the discussion on Facebook or drop a line at americawarpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!

As we reach the middle of the eighteenth century, France and Great Britain are at it again! Militia and volunteers from New England, in one of their greatest feats of arms, captured the great French fortress at Louisbourg. While the victory was abrogated with the peace treaty between Britain and France, it set the stage for the greatest conflict that colonies had ever seen - the Seven Years War. If you enjoy this podcast, write or review of help offset the costs. You can go to the podcast website and Facebook page for more information - www.amercaatwarpodcast.com.

This week on the TransCanada Music West podcast, it's Jay Malinowski and the Deadcoast live from Victoria's Alix Goolden Hall during Breakout West 2015. Jay Malinowski has earned a reputation as a young, commercially successful creative force. In his late teens, he fronted the JUNO Award winning reggae-rock outfit Bedouin Soundclash. The band recorded a plethora of pop gems, including “When The Night Feels My Song.”But in the decade since that breakthrough hit, Jay has continued to hone his craft. In 2010 he released his first solo album, Bright Lights and Bruises. That was followed by an EP collaboration with Coeur de Pirate, released under the moniker Armistice.  Jay returned to his family’s home base of Vancouver in 2012, formed The Deadcoast (Elliott Vaugh on the Viola, John Kastelic on violin, and Martin Reisle on cello) and set to work on their first EP, Indian Summer. That record was followed up by the full length album, Martel. The concept album draws inspiration from the life of Malinowski’s ancestor Charles Martel – A mid-eighteenth century sailor who fled France for the New World…only to find himself fighting the French in the Siege of Louisbourg. Many of the songs you’ll hear on this week's show were featured on that record. Tracklist:Donzoko BluesPatience PhippsSingapore SlinguntitledLife Is A GunHow It Comes Is How It GoesUp The CrossThe ReckoningI Was Walking Through A DreamWe've All Got To Be Going Somewhere