Tis’ the Season for Lobster Trap and Buoy Christmas Trees
Above photo by Kathy Johnson
Once again, fishing communities along Nova Scotia’s South Shore will be decking waterfronts with boughs of lobster traps and buoys in celebration of both the lobster fishery and the upcoming holiday season.
In the Municipality of Barrington, the 13th annual lobster pot Christmas tree, which stands on the North East Point waterfront adjacent to the Cape Sable Island Causeway, will be lit for the season on Nov. 24. The tree lighting kicks off the ...
Port de Grave Shines Bright for its 24th Christmas in a Row
Above photo by Joyce Morgan
The community of Port de Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, has a tradition going 24 years strong.
Starting December 9 and running until January 6, the boats in the harbour of Port de Grave will be shining brightly with thousands of Christmas lights.
In the fall of 1999, a government grant of $500 was awarded for residents to light up their communities for Christmas as part of a Festival of Lights. Previous to that, there was one ...
How About a Fishing Rope Christmas Wreath Under the Tree This Season?
Are you Christmas shopping for the person who has everything?
Former area politician and fisherman Sterling Belliveau seeks to take fishing rope out of our oceans and landfills and put them into people’s homes in the form of holiday decorations, floor mats, baskets and boat fenders.
Belliveau, 69, knows his way around a length or two of fishing rope. Since the age of 15, when he left school and got his own lobster fishing boat, Belliveau has had a relationship with the seas in one form ...
The Christmas Tree Broker
Travis Long Continuing a Holiday Family Tradition
The holiday season is an extra busy time for Travis Long of TriNav Marine Brokerage.
Since he was a young boy, Long has been helping out on the family Christmas tree lot. The family tradition goes back to his grandfather, who would sell single loose balsam fir trees in Pomquet, Nova Scotia.
From there, he spread the tradition to all of his sons. All of Long’s uncles owned land that they grew trees on, a trend his father joined ...
New Brunswick Lobster Pot Tree Promotes the Giving Spirit
More than $10,000 has been raised in support of the local food bank through the sponsorship of buoys for the St. Andrews, New Brunswick lobster pot Christmas tree since the tradition was started by local business owners four years ago.
“Me and a lady by the name of Alisan Bailey, her husband is a fisherman, we always joked about doing a small lobster pot tree on my deck at the pub for Christmas,” said Kevin Simmonds, who owns the Red Herring Pub in the coastal New Brunswick town.
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Lobster Trap, Buoy Trees Celebrate the Season in Southwestern Nova Scotia
Above photo: West Pubnico, N.S. Kathy Johnson photo
The start of the LFA 33 and 34 lobster fishery and the Christmas season are being celebrated in southwestern Nova Scotia this year with three community lobster pot Christmas trees and a buoy tree.
Started last year, the 24-foot buoy tree, topped with a two-foot radar reflector, stands stately on the Dennis Point wharf in Lower West Pubnico.
A project of the West Side Improvement Society, the buoy tree was constructed out ...
Port de Grave Light Show
The scenic fishing community of Port de Grave, Conception Bay, Newfoundland was shining bright once again this year. The annual boat lighting tradition is a point of interest for many in the province, with about 30,000 visitors each year. There is a strong sense of pride in the Christmas light display and this year was no different. Dozens of boats decorated with bright lights of various colours, shapes and sizes making for a breathtaking view.
Photos by Danielle Hoddinott and Alex Chafe
A Lengthy Fish Wish List
Did Christmas come early for the four provincial governments in Atlantic Canada — specifically on October 19 of this year?
By now the dust has settled and the celebratory Liberal red confetti has been swept up from Justin Trudeau’s somewhat surprising majority government win and clean sweep in Atlantic Canada.
The fact all 32 Atlantic Canada members of Parliament are now sitting on the government side must be already causing the premiers in this neck of the woods to salivate a little. ...
