MONCTON, N.B. With Monday quickly approaching, the countdown to New Brunswick s 75 per cent vaccination goal to gradually reopen the province is in its final days. While hopeful the province will make the switch to the first phase of the Path to Green, many New Brunswickers are cautiously optimistic of what Monday may bring. Setting targets is good, setting dates is good. Sometimes it may lead to false expectations, however, ultimately, we will get there, said Sackville mayor-elect, Shawn Mesheau. Mesheau says living in a border town means he s been paying close attention to whether the province will get the green light to begin the reopening plan.
SHUBENACADIE, N.S. Archaeologists will begin to investigate the former Shubenacadie Residential school grounds Saturday to explore whether there is any burial evidence on site. Saint Mary’s University Associate Professor Jonathan Fowler will work with Roger Lewis, the Mi’kmaq cultural heritage curator for the Nova Scotia Museum, as a co-investigator. Fowler said the work is expected to take weeks and will rely on small teams using a variety of technologies including drones, ground-penetrating radar, magnetics, historical air photographs and lidar. We’re going to create a historical map of that hill and we are going to map every possible feature caused by human intervention on that hill from modern times right back through to could be thousands of years, Fowler said.