It’s been on the books for over 25 years now, and according to Derek Brett of the Greater Burnside Business Association, a new expressway connecting Burnside to Bedford/Sackville was supposed to break ground in February. But Nova Scotia’s recent tolling feasibility study appears to have bumped the new four-lane road down the priority list. The […]
Bombs in the Basin
"Thousands and thousands of rounds of ammunition" litter the floor of the Bedford Basin, says John McCallum.
The floor of Bedford Basin is still littered with ammunition scattered by the explosion of a military magazine more than seven decades ago. The July 1945 blast started when a barge at the Bedford Magazine jetty caught fire and blew up. “We know, for sure, that there’s thousands and thousands of rounds of ammunition that...