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Trade From Cape Cod to Labrador has existed for thousands of years and European settlers thrived on these traditional trade routes and the movement of goods back and forth … legal and otherwise. Atlantic Alive has been created to continue these historic … Continue reading WELCOME TO ATLANTIC ALIVE – FOLLOWING STORIES FROM CAPE COD TO LABRADOR
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We’ve had an art site for years now. Whatever you want … framed, t-shirt, etc … this site provides it and ships directly to you. Check it out at https://art-mackay.pixels.com/ Continue reading ART WORK – Prints, Cards, T-shirts & More at Our Fine Art site!!
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We have been uploading our ARTWORK and E-BOOKS to PayHip.com … a great site where you can download and print images for yourself. These products are for your publications and personal or classroom use only and may not be reproduced … Continue reading ART & MORE – Download and print your own at our Payhip site.
By Raye Shelley Leonard – Coastal Journal View of the White Head Island ferry terminal on Ingalls Head Road. It’s peak vacation season in the Midcoast, and good luck finding a square of sand for your beach towel and picnic. … Continue reading EXPLORE: Grand Manan, NB: More Maine than Maine – Coastal Journal, 2016-07-28
If you are visiting Nova Scotia, be sure to include this in your “bucket list”. On September 15th, 1773, the Hector sailed into Pictou harbour. Aboard were 189 Scottish immigrants who had boarded the ship in Loch Broom more than …
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Continue reading EXPLORE: Hector Heritage Quay in Nova Scotia – The Symbol of Scottish Immigration
No snow yet but as this image shows, the harbour can still freeze!! CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE VERSIONS Continue reading PEI – Frozen Harbour – Just uploaded at Fine Art America
There really are nuclear risks of small modular reactors Continue reading NUCLEAR – Bad guys and bombs … The nuclear risks of small modular reactors
Sorting files and came across this vintage image from Maine. Looks like a cougar to me. How about you?? Continue reading CREATURES – A vintage image of a cougar at Sidney, Maine?
Interested in our beautiful trout and char? This infographic is great for your wall in the office, camp, or home and as a handout for school kids to learn. Click here to check it out at TpT!! Continue reading INFOGRAPHIC: Trout & Char of the North Atlantic – Wall Poster
Published Aug 2, 2022 The Park is used daily by the local residents of Charlotte County NB for hiking, biking, dog walking, snowshoeing, sliding, kite flying and simply enjoying the beauty of the area. Continue reading LOOKING BACK – Ganong Nature Park, St. Stephen, NB, 2001
Learn about the three basic ocean substrates onto which, or into which, marine organisms settle and grow. These are: 1. ROCK, 2. MUD. and 3. SAND. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY Continue reading EDUCATION – About Different Ocean Substrates and the Marine Life That Lives There
WINDMILLS & WOODEN SHOES CLIP ART FROM THE 1890s GET THE PACKAGE HERE Continue reading CLIP ART – WINDMILLS & WOODEN SHOES
Another trip today to find more birds. It may seem late, but more than a half dozen Great Blue Herons at Savage Harbour! Continue reading EXPLORE PEI – Birds at Savage Harbour – 10/11/21
THE STORY CONCERNS: The health of the oceans depends on a complex food web which ultimate depends on the sun providing energy for photosynthesis by tiny plants called phytoplankton which, in turn, serve as food for equally tiny little sea … Continue reading EDUCATION – KRILL – A vital ocean forage species.
A good idea?? A bad idea?? No matter your position on the dam that produced energy for a century or more, it’s gone … to be replaced by what? Nuclear? Continue reading ISSUES – Milltown Dam Removal On the International St. Croix River – Aug 5, 2023
Can’t get out to explore and learn about the beautiful flowers and plants that appear along our Atlantic shores? Well, here’s a virtual tour you can take complete with full-sized and identified photos that you can distribute and print as … Continue reading EDUCATION – A VIRTUAL TOUR OF PLANTS ALONG A SHORE TRAIL
MORE INFORMATION POSTED JULY 27, 2023. CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX by Art MacKay, October 14th, 2015 THE VISUALSTHE STORY: Many of us believe that a mystery unexplained remains a mystery and this seems to be true for Isle … Continue reading TREASURE: Pirate Ned Low, Captain Kidd and the Treasure of Isle Haute, NS
Above: An LNG tanker passed under the Tobin Bridge and into the Mystic River in Chelsea. Could extra LNG supplies help restrain winter gas prices? Energy companies are seeing weaker demand for natural gas in Asia and Europe. By Jack … Continue reading LOOKING BACK – More LNG could flow to Boston this winter 2015
Identification of Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas in the Bay of Fundy, Gulf of Maine – Volume 1 Continue reading ISSUES – Buzeta’s Full Publication on Significant Areas in Bay of Fundy
Everyone knows the Bay of Fundy … right? It is home to thousands of unusual and spectacular marine invertebrates as well as more beautiful birds than you can count and a dozen species of whales and seals including the endangered North … Continue reading ISSUES: Marine Protected Areas – Canada’s failure in the face of big business?
As the tragedy deepens in Japan, the impacts begin to spread around the world as the links below attest … But I still hear people saying we are better, ours is safer, it’s about the jobs … While the earth … Continue reading NUCLEAR CONCERNS: But we are smarter than the Japanese. Right? And CANDUs are better? Right?
in 2015, 100 municipalities were discharging sewage into Quebec’s waterways CBC News Posted: Oct 23, 2015 6:46 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 23, 2015 10:42 PM ET Raw sewage from Chute-aux-Outardes flows into the Outardes River, which then empties onto … Continue reading POLLUTION: 100 municipalities discharged sewage into the St. Lawrence river and Gulf in 2015. IN 2023 IT’S EVEN WORSE – Read on ….
There are indeed strange and wonderful things out there to discover. Thanks for this one New Hampshire Nana. All of the original sites I used for this story are now gone (2021). But here is our remnant for you enjoyment … Continue reading MYSTERY: A Staircase to Nowhere in Madame Sherri’s Forest, NH?
UMaine and tribal experts collaborate to save Maine’s rare petroglyphs on Machias Bay Buried and engraved along Maine’s coast are valuable pieces of the region’s past at risk of being lost forever. But before they’re gone, researchers at the University … Continue reading STORIES ON STONE: Saving Maine Petroglyphs
This article restored by John Wood gives an interesting look at “The Mi’kmaq People” a hundred years ago. Be sure to “LIKE” and add your “COMMENTS”! Continue reading PEOPLE: The Mi’kmaq People as seen in 1908
This is one of the best trails websites we have reviewed. I expect you will find it as compelling as we do. Take a look and if you are planning a trip to the outer shore of Nova Scotia there … Continue reading EXPLORE: THE RUM RUNNERS TRAILS in Nova Scotia – HERE ONLINE OR ON THE ROAD!!!
Back in 2015 Jack Newsham of the Globe wrote this about LNG sources. Changes in energy markets as far away as China could help prevent natural gas shortages and moderate heating and electricity costs in New England. Foreign energy companies, … Continue reading BUSINESS: It took over 20 years for Saint John, NB to become a major source of LNG in the USA
If it’s not the remains of a Chinese Village, what do you think it is? Images from P. Chiasson publication The Story: Back in 2002, architect, amateur historian and native Cape Bretoner Paul Chiasson went for a hike up Kelly’s … Continue reading MYSTERIES: A 500 Year Old Chinese City on Cape Breton Island. REALLY?
It seems we never stop. What will the impact of this be? Checked it out for 2021 … Seems they over estimated!! Apparently earth only has 4,550 satellites in orbit, as of Sept. 1, 2021 Continue reading PLAYING GOD? They are saying 57,000 satellites will be swarming the earth in 9 year!! Seems they didn’t make it!!
AS REPORTED IN 2015 – WILL THIS WORK IN THE BAY OF FUNDY, GULF OF MAINE AND ELSEWHERE ALONG OUR COAST? Now it’s back, as the plant built by Maki Ocean Engineering proves. It’s the largest of its kind in … Continue reading ENERGY: Power plant uses ocean temperatures to generate energy. CAN WE DO THIS HERE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST?
Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone Lake Winnipesaukee mystery stone at the New Hampshire Historical Society For its size New Hampshire seems to have a large number of mysteries and many of these are found in numerous writings online and offline. My family … Continue reading MYSTERIES: New Hampshire mystery stone baffles the experts
Irving lost Maine mining battle, but history says Canadian corporate giant will not give up. So what is the situation in 2023 when J.D. Irving is the largest landowner in Maine, controlling 1.25 million acres Lance Tapley – www.pinetreewatchdog.org. POSTED ON … Continue reading MINING: Irving lost the Maine mining battle, but history says the Canadian corporate giant will not give up…
Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus On April 22, 2008, Joyce Morrell of Campobello sent around a photo of a single drake at Head Harbour Light House. This reminded me of a very short story about one of the most beautiful of the … Continue reading BIRDS: Can the beautiful Harlequin Duck stall development in the Bay of Fundy?
Originally published in 2015 the post below was about concerns related to opening a nuclear storage facility next to the Great Lakes which could result in nuclear pollution problems that vastly surpass those created at Chernobyl and Fukushima. It was … Continue reading NUCLEAR: Proposed Nuclear Waste Dump could impact 30 million people … BUT …
Named after a beautiful tropical bird the Whydah. this infamous gally served first as a slave ship and subsequently under pirate “Black Sam” Bellamy. But in spite of its marauding presence along American shores, it finally in the spring of … Continue reading TREASURE: THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SHIP WHYDAH
It seems every island makes the claim that Captain Kidd buried treasure there and as this colourful story from 1930 shows, Grand Manan is no exception … and there is “Money Cove” to prove it. Continue reading TREASURE: Did Captain Kidd bury treasure at Money Cove, Grand Manan?
Did you know Tritium is released from Point Lepreau daily into the water and air? And it’s safe they say. Others think not. And they don’t mention scallops, clams and quahogs!! Oh yes!!! While they once tested for this, they … Continue reading ISSUES – RADIATION FOR DINNER? Tritium Bioaccumulates in Blue Mussels – But what about scallops, clams and quahogs?
It’s 2023 and our forests are being cut down and burned down. What does this mean for our future? Check out our educational package at Teachers Pay Teachers. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/HEALTHY-FORESTS-MEAN-A-HEALTHY-PLANET-7246191 Continue reading ISSUES: OUR FORESTS – Why they are important for a healthy planet.
If you are into seaglass here’s some fabulous information on seaglass hunting on Campobello Island in NB. Check it out here – Campobello Island Seaglass Festival Here’s a really big present – THE definitive beachcombing map of Campobello Island. All exploring … Continue reading EXPLORE: Campobello Seaglass Festival has the ultimate map for seaglass explorers!
Download this great read and enjoy these pirate stories! Continue reading PIRATES: Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates
PART 4 | OCTOBER 28, 2015 Invasive species exploit a warming Gulf of Maine, sometimes with destructive results BRUNSWICKS tory by Colin Woodard/ Staff Writer Photos by Gregory Rec/ Staff Photographer Compare intertidal flats in Brunswick’s Maquoit Bay in June … Continue reading CLIMATE CHANGE: Invasive species moving north, sometimes with destructive results
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