Author: TJ Fedak

There is no mistaking the experience. When you find yourself looking at the the cliffs of Blomidon, you in a place of significance. You can almost feel the pull from the world’s highest tides that wash these shores twice a day. This is a place of Mi’kmaq legends and an international geological landmark. Charles Lyell…

This online article relates to the “Working With Charles Lyell Workshop” at the University of Edinburgh, February 8-9, 2024. These topics are part of a larger project examining the ‘culture of geology’ and connections between Edinburgh and Nova Scotia. This article focuses on Charles Lyell’s notebooks from his visit to Nova Scotia in July and…

A project to conserve and clean a series of geoheritage maps at the Nova Scotia Museum is underway. This geoheritage project is supported by the Atlantic Geoscience Society in 2023. The maps date back to the 1870s and were exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Nearly a dozen maps from the exhibition are…