Telling a fuller story
There is far more to the history of Canada's smallest province than the fact it played host to leaders talking Confederation in 1864.
As The Guardian's Daniel Brown reports, usually young people dressed as Victorian-era Prince Edward Islanders provide a window into history for visitors to Charlottetown.
This year, the Confederation Players had a very different summer: learning more about the whole history of the Island, beyond the white Fathers of Confederation, highlighting women, Indigenous, Black, Chinese and Lebanese history.
One of their field trips was to assist Mi'kmaq Confederacy of P.E.I. heritage presenter Junior Peter-Paul with the traditional wigwam he is constructing.
Picnicking against racism
Two Nova Scotia teenagers weren't going to let an ugly, racist event at their local swimming spot go.
On Sunday, Lauryn Guest and Peter Fisk organized a picnic at Hutt's Lake in Chester Basin, on the province's South Shore, to stand with their community against racism and in support of Black Lives Matter After a black man and boy faced a noose-swinging incident there earlier this month.
As The Chronicle Herald's John McPhee reports, the teens organized the picnic to combat those attitudes, they also wanted to highlight the progressive spirit of many people in Chester Basin.
"There is a community around here that is in support of events like this happening. I do strongly believe it is a small minority of people who are going to be racist, of course," Fisk told McPhee.
"But it is something that we're going to need to be aware of ... to create a safer spot for BIPOC people."
Keeping on in Trinity
"No Newfoundland town comes close to the success of Trinity — perched on a jut of land along the east coast of the Bonavista Peninsula — in reinventing itself as a living museum," The Telegram's Peter Jackson writes.
Where centuries of Newfoundland residents worked, lived and traded before it became a hub of arts and culture in the late 20th Century, Trinity continues to draw visitors even during the pandemic summer.
“Until the moratorium, they caught fish. Now they catch tourists,” comedian and part-time Trinity resident Mark Critch told Jackson.
Visit the community in the fisrt part of a three-part series.
