Cree Code Breaker Keith Ranville and the Oak Island Mystery By Brent Raynes Keith Ranville of Vancouver, British Columbia, is a Cree Indian who was born in Winnipeg. Keith has brought a new perspective to the legendary Oak Island mystery of Nova Scotia's Mahone Bay area, and it's probably about time. I first read about this mystery myself in Str...

At breakfast this morning we met a retired teacher and her husband from NYC, two ladies from Wales and a mother and son from Ontario. We had a great food and good company before taking off. It'll take three hours for us to drive to Halifax. We've been told by a few people that we must see a place called Peggy's Cove so we decided to do just that...

A bit more relaxed day. We got going a little later, and headed into Halifax for the day. Spent some time at the Kids Discovery Centre, walking along the pier and then had a great dinner at MacAskill's, a short ferry ride away in Dartmouth.

Hey ! Alexander Kieth's tour is great fun for lunch. Short but theatrical. Anyway made it to Halifax this AM. The harbour walk is beautiful ( only non-frozen harbour and naturally deep, 18 m) Pier 21 was where 1 million people became immigrants in 1921, and I lucked out with good weather. There is about 5 microbreweries and the hostel is local. ...

Day 3 (April 16th) Saturday started at a decent time thanks to Katie's excellent planning and booking of apartment views. We made our way to the first place which was on Quinpool and close to many things that a prospective tenant may like such as a Grocery store and Shoppers. We checked out two places here and they were both very nice. Again we ...

At that point I split off from my friends and headed off for the rest of my trip. The trip I'd hoped to do from Halifax to Lunenburg and Mahone Bay wasn't happening for a couple of days so I decided to pass on that, spend a day walking around Halifax Citadel, old town, etc and then head up to Sydney a day early. A bit of a gray day but what a ne...