#chester nova scotia

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Gundog Training at Dig It Dogs with Cheshire Canine Services

Mike Crawford of Cheshire Canine Services and Dig It Dog Training Club. Gundog training workshops. source

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Sunset & Sunrise ❤️

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William James Glackens

‘The Bathing Hour, Chester, Nova Scotia’ (1910)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I don’t know why, but I never really cared for beach houses. However, this one, built in 1915 on Chester’s Peninsula, Nova Scotia, is actually a Tudor style home. It has 5bd. 2.5ba and is listed for  C$6,9M or $5,16M.

Now, this is my idea of a beach house. It has the best of both worlds. Isn’t this an unusual entrance hall? I think it’s b/c of the way the house faces, sideways, that it was designed like this.

Isn’t the fireplace glorious? Look at the beamed ceilings. It appears that the wood was recently stripped and refinished and  they may have oiled it, rather than put on a preservative coating of polyurethane or something of that nature.

The current owner has decorated in a nautical theme, but it’s a Tudor, so you don’t have to, if you prefer a more English look. 

Clearly, the kitchen is new. I do like the shiny white cabinetry, but I think the walls need some color.

The enclosed porch of the kitchen is lovely and has some great views. 

Main bd. on the 2nd level has a lovely corner fireplace. 

There’s a very spacious upper deck.

The secondary bds. are bright and spacious.

Look at the large patio on the back of the house.

This is so nice- kick back on the deck in front and watch the boats.

Look at this cute little shed- it could be a guest house, or a pool house.

Beautiful dock is on a private beach on .82 acre.

This is so pretty. What an idyllic location.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/80-Peninsula-Rd-Chester-NS-B0J-1J0/305647954_zpid/

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The six-year campaign of two Canadian sailing sisters to compete at Paris 2024 has come with an unexpected windfall: the sport has brought them closer together than they’ve ever felt before.

This past March, Georgia and Antonia Lewin-LaFrance from Chester, Nova Scotia felt more than a little wind in their sails as they qualified to represent Team Canada at the Olympic Games. Then, the sisters did something that didn’t come all that naturally to the two of them after they finished in eighth place at the 2024 49er FX World Championships in Spain.

“We hugged many times. It’s funny hugging in sailing gear because you’re in all this equipment with life jackets and wetsuits. You’re like the Michelin blimp,” Antonia says.

They couldn’t believe what they had just accomplished after the six-year campaign to get to the Paris 2024 Olympics. More importantly, they couldn’t believe they were hugging like they were.

[muntzerism-diggerism]

Why does Toronto get all the sports teams instead of a more deserving town like Chester Nova Scotia

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CKBW-FM

"The sound of the South Shore"

Moving onto a larger station which nonetheless carries on the tradition established so far on this blog of radio stations not chasing after "popular" music or trends, this is CKBW-FM. (This trend will be broken in due time). Getting right into things across the ocean, as I learned when listening live, CKBW is a commercial radio station owned and operated as part of a network by Acadia Broadcasting. It's located and broadcasts in Nova Scotia, Canada, but also broadcasts on different frequencies to Bridgewater and Shelburne nearby. Its formatting is that of a classic hits-dedicated adult station, aimed at a target audience likely to be 50+, especially with how old some of the songs played can be (as will be detailed later). CKBW brands itself as playing classic hits from the 70's, 80's and 90's, further supporting this. It was established all the way back in 1947 and is still running today, hinting at a loyal following and a level of success codified by their 19K following on Facebook.

CKBW has an online presence with their own website, as well as accounts on Twitter and Facebook, though they do not post especially often on either. The website updates with local news from the Nova Scotia area pretty often, showing that the radio station's scope extends beyond just their radio broadcasts.

This focus on Nova Scotia exists within the actual show itself, so let's get into show structure. I listened to CKBW on Tuesday 26 December 2023, between 2-3PM AST, and was treated to the drivetime show with "Drive Home with John Wiles". Presenter John Wiles had several links sprinkled throughout the show about a minute long each, but he had a way of packing a lot of info or content into each link despite the shortened time. These links were either conversational, posing various questions to viewers that could be answered by texting in, or featured talk about whatever is topical at the time- in this instance, of course, subjects surrounding Christmas and the upcoming new year. The branding of the show as a classic hits station comes through quite effectively- every tune I listened to, be it Take on Me by A-ha (1985), Doesn't really matter by Platinum Blonde (1983), Dream On by Aerosmith (1973) or Two Princes by Spin Doctors (1991) were hit tunes that came out between 1970 and 2000, exactly as advertised by the station itself. It stays true to its principles without variation, and does have some Canadian music artists (like aforementioned Platinum Blonde) included.

Despite not all the artists played on the station being Canadian, CKBW still manages to retain a local feel due to regularly featuring weather updates for the Nova Scotia area quarterly across the hour, and advertisements on the station regularly feature businesses in the area as well such as Nova Scotia Building Supplies.

Given CKBW is, according to its slogan, The Sound of the South Shore, it's good to see that despite sticking to the classic hits format, it still finds time to live up to that slogan and be helpful to the locals of the South Shore area (of which Nova Scotia is a part). I personally found the show to be engaging, with the presenter's banter between links to be entertaining, helping to keep the show going without monotony, and I find the station's music selection is very good at recalling a sense of nostalgia for older songs, no doubt a deliberate effect CKBW wishes to invoke from its stated adult audiences.

So all this in mind, it's clear to me why CKBW has lasted as long as it has. Its music selection, focus on local content for adverts and weather and fun short-but-sweet links between songs all combine to create a perfect formula for success. If you want to try this formula for yourself, you can find CKBW and listen via their website here:

References:

Castlensbs.com (Date N/A) Welcome to Chester Building Supplies Ltd.& Nova Scotia Building Supplies (1982) Ltd. [Online] Available at: http://castlensbs.com [Accessed 26/12/2023]

ckbw.ca (Date N/A) CKBW [Online] Available at: https://www.ckbw.ca [Accessed 26/12/2023]

facebook.com (Date N/A) CKBW South Shore Radio [Online] Available at: https://www.facebook.com/CKBWRadio/ [Accessed 26/12/2023]

wikipedia.org (Last edited 31/9/2022) CKBW-FM [Online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKBW-FM [Accessed 26/12/2023]

[atlanticcanada]

Small island school that fought closures sees surge in enrolment

It wasn't that long ago that Big Tancook Island, off the coast of Chester, was at risk of losing its only school due to dwindling enrolment. Last year 17 students attended.

from CBC | Nova Scotia News https://ift.tt/LbaXHUF

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The Chester AU 👀

Sorry for the wait! I completely missed this (why does mobile have no ask box notifs?).

The Chester AU came to me while on a boat. In Chester, NS, Canada. I know, really creatively named file (sorry if you were looking for the dog ig?).

Basically, Chester’s a small town/village on the south shore of Nova Scotia. It’s on a bay filled with and ringed by islands, and there’s a lot of sail boat racing.

In the 1980s, it was also (according to my dad, who was there) a popular summer destination for rich americans, who would pay locals to sail their yachts for them so they could have the trophies to put on the mantlepieces of their summer homes.

Anyhoodles, my brain saw this and went “Ah. Yes. Steddie” so expect “Steve, stuck in Canada once again, meets Eddie, the local his parents hired to sail their yacht (and Robin, somewhere along the way)” coming to ao3 some time in the next ten years

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Connect Nova Scotia's South Shore

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postcard: Along the waterfront,Chester,Nova Scotia.

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Jib House, Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada,

Omar Gandhi Architect

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[conradscrime]

The Butterbox Babies

April 25, 2021

If you have never heard of this story before, you’re in for it. Being from Halifax, Nova Scotia I had recently learned about this case last year and I could hardly believe I had never heard about it prior. 

In the late 1920′s a man by the name William Young and his wife Lila Young opened what was known as the Life and Health Sanitarium in East Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada. William Young was born in Memramcook, New Brunswick in 1898 and was aspiring to be an Adventist medical missionary without medical training. He graduated from the Medical Evangelists College in 1923.

Lila Coolen was born in Fox Point, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1899. She became a teacher and taught in Fox Point. In 1925, at the age of 26, she met William Peach Young, and they married that year. 

William became a licensed chiropractor in Chicago in December 1927 and two months later in February 1928 him and Lila moved back to Nova Scotia to open their business. Lila was a midwife and their business was soon re-named the Ideal Maternity Home & Sanitarium with William as the superintendent and Lila as the managing director.

The Ideal Maternity home was for women, mostly having babies out of wedlock and needed a safe place to have their baby and to escape gossip at the time due to the times of this being extremely taboo to have a child out of wedlock. The maternity home was also for married women seeking maternity care

For a married woman she had to pay an average of $75 each for delivery and two weeks of care following the birth. For an unwed mother, the price was higher, averaging $100 or $200 for a room, to deliver the baby and to arrange an adoption for the baby. There was extra costs as well for diapers and supplies, as well as a $2 weekly fee for maintenance. These were quite high prices in the late 1920′s and early 1930′s considering the weekly wage was around $8 at the time. 

If a baby died in the maternity home the Youngs would charge the mother $20 for funeral expenses and then they would put the baby in a white pine butter box, which acted as the “coffin.” 

The worst part was that both William and Lila Young promoted themselves as doctors with medical training, though neither had any. These women thought they were going to a reputable maternity home where they would get high quality care for both themselves and their babies. Because a lot of these women could not afford the high price of services they were allowed to “pay off their debts” to the Youngs by performing domestic duties around the maternity home. 

Lila would deliver their babies herself, but some of the mothers mentioned that she was very rough and almost scary in demeanour, no one wanted to cross Lila. Between 1928 and 1935 there was 148 births at the maternity home, and 12 infant deaths. This meant the mortality rate was 8.1% at the home, an extremely high rate.  

In March 1936 both Lila and William were charged with two counts of manslaughter because one of the mothers in their care, Eva Nieforth and her newborn child both died in January 1936 due to negligence and unsanitary conditions in the home. Both the Young’s were acquitted of this charge after a three day trial in May 1936, however the police promised to investigate any death of an infant at the maternity home from then on. 

The Young’s handyman Glen Shatford admitted that he buried anywhere between 100 and 125 babies in a field by Fox Point, where Lila was from. Adoption was the greatest way the Young’s were making money, charging around $1000 per infant in the 1930′s and around $5000 per infant during World War II. If the babies were not adopted due to either being mixed race or had physical defects they were starved to death.

It is claimed that Lila and William Young made at least $3.5 million from adoption between 1937 and 1947, an astronomical amount for the time. Some of the adoptions the birth mothers did not know about until they were already complete. The mothers also had to sign a contract allowing William to be in total control over what happened to their baby within 14 days after the birth or else they’d be charged another $30. 

The Young’s sold a lot of the babies to American couples and then would tell the birth mother’s their babies had died. 

Business was booming, which caused Lila to brag. By 1943 the Young’s were housing about 70 infants on any given day, and even though officials had been watching the Young’s for around a decade, since their charges of manslaughter in 1936, they did not find evidence of the horrid conditions of the maternity home until 1945. Apparently the maternity home was swarming with flies, had filthy bedding and infants were weighing 50% of the normal weight for their age. 

When the Maternity Boarding House Act of 1940 was introduced it demanded that maternity homes needed licensing from incorporated companies. The Young’s license was rejected and they were ordered to shut down their maternity home in November 1945.

The Young’s however continued to run their maternity home and they were charged on multiple accounts for violating the Maternity Boarding House Act and practicing medicine without a license. They only ended up paying $150 in fines.

Lila became to become extremely anger at the negative media attention she and the maternity home were getting and she filed a $25,000 libel suit against a local newspaper. Of course this came with a lot of damning testimony and continued on with a trial that completely exposed William and Lila’s maternity home for the scam it was. The maternity home was finally closed for good and the Young’s went bankrupt, ending up selling their property in Nova Scotia and moved to Quebec. 

It is said that during the time of Young’s maternity home 400 to 600 victims, mostly infants and some of the mother’s died at the hands of William and Lila Young.

The maternity home was supposed to turn into a hotel resort but ended up burning to the ground on September 23, 1962. William Young died from cancer right before Christmas in 1962 and Lila died from leukaemia in 1967. 

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Had a little vacay at Oak Island Inn in Chester Nova Scotia. It was lovely! xo

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