Vanguard Vault

Southwestern Nova Scotia had a new golf course, an official opening having been held for the Clare Golf and Country Club.

35 YEARS AGO

Anglers from nine countries were fishing off Wedgeport and Cape Saint Mary in the area’s annual international sport tuna-fishing competition. The participants included the defending champion Scandinavian team. The Canadian contingent included retired hockey star Jean Beliveau, The Vanguard noted in its Sept. 5, 1973 edition.

30 YEARS AGO

A banquet was to be held locally in honour of Judge Vincent J. Pottier, the Belleville native whose accomplishments included being the first Acadian from Nova Scotia elected to the House of Commons. (He had represented Shelburne-Yarmouth-Clare from the mid-1930s to the mid-40s.)

25 YEARS AGO

A committee pursuing the development of a regional civic centre in the Yarmouth area was “putting into high gear its campaign to gain support” for the project, The Vanguard reported in its Sept. 7, 1983 edition. The proposed two-ice-surface facility was expected to cost $3.5 million and the plan was to build it on the former Lawndale farm property.

Ferry traffic between Yarmouth and Maine was said to have increased substantially in the summer of 1983 over the year before. Factors cited as contributing to the increase included improved economic conditions in the United States and the new Bluenose ferry, which “itself has been a drawing card,” said an official with CN Marine, which operated the Yarmouth-Bar Harbor service. A new Bluenose – replacing the original vessel – had begun sailing in the spring of ’83.

20 YEARS AGO

The Progressive Conservatives were triumphant again in Nova Scotia, winning their fourth straight general election, this time capturing 28 seats, down from the 41 they had held at the dissolution of the most recent session of the House of Assembly. The Liberals won 21, more than three times their total from the previous election in 1984. The NDP won two seats and there was one independent. Tory candidates prevailed in Yarmouth (Leroy Legere), Argyle (Neil LeBlanc) and Clare (Guy LeBlanc).

15 YEARS AGO

“Devastating” was what some were calling the anticipated impact of major groundfish quota cuts and fishery closures announced by the federal government. Ross Reid, the federal fisheries minister at the time, said the measures were needed because of “an unprecedented ecological crisis in Atlantic groundfish stocks.”