John Risley has come a long way from running a roadside lobster shop
The Nova Scotia visionary created billion-dollar seafood empires, and helped Indigenous communities return to the waters.
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The Nova Scotia visionary created billion-dollar seafood empires, and helped Indigenous communities return to the waters.
The Nova Scotia visionary created billion-dollar seafood empires, and helped Indigenous communities return to the waters.
Article content After nearly 40 years in Nova Scotia real estate, Alex Astbury was trying to float toward retirement. For decades he’d worked in Halifax but opened an office in Lunenburg, about an hour away on the province’s South Shore, as part of his transition to a slower pace. That plan seemed even more realistic at the onset of the pandemic when his workload dropped. He bought a tool belt and spent a month shingling a house he’d been working on. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Real estate in Atlantic Canada in a whirlwind of demand,...