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The North Atlantic Ocean, 250 miles west of Bermuda, October 1841. The whaling brig William and Joseph of Holmes Hole is heading back to the Vineyard with a disappointing haul. “We put away for home with 200 barrels of sperm, and 12 barrels of black-fish oil; low in spirits, for this was a very inadequate […]
HALIFAX -- When the calendar turned to 2021, Mark Candow’s cottage was nearly booked for the year. The Elmsdale, N.S. resident rents his Windsor-area cottage through the booking website Airbnb, but with tightened COVID-19 restrictions in place throughout Nova Scotia, a number of his bookings were forced to cancel. He says even he and his family are unable to visit the cottage because of the current public health guidelines. “It’s pretty much shut down,” Candow explains. “It’s just sitting there vacant, and you know, it’s in the middle of the woods on a very private lot, ...