Bras d'Or he lue eron TThe Bras B d’Or Stewardship H Society P.O. Box 158, Baddeck, B0E 1B0 St y ew iet ardship Soc

VOLUME 14 July 2011 NO. II

nce again, it is time for Issue very costly proposed 70 slip marina have caused costly siltation and Onumber 2 of the 2011 Blue facility at the head of erosion within the Bras d’Or Lakes Heron Newsletter. The Bras d’Or adjacent to the Ben Eoin Golf course. watershed. Stewardship Society is approaching Minimal public discussion has been its 13th full year as a non-profit aired regarding these two projects. membership entity championing As usual, debates do not arise until the responsible stewardship of the people are made aware of the threats NOTICE Bras d’Or Lakes and its watershed. to the environment or concerns over The Annual General Just as you think stewardship and personal property surface. More environmental matters are at rest, detailed clarification is a must. Meeting of the Society will be held On items arise that need to be addressed. Fortunately, there have been recent If the Society was not extent, there community meetings that will lead Saturday, would be no collective credible voice to hopeful further debate regarding August 6, 2011 to deal with issues that are brought these two potential projects. However, at 10:00 a.m. to the Society’s attention. one or two meetings are not sufficient Masonic Hall The two current issues that stand to address the concerns, as much Baddeck out are a proposed expansion of a information is lacking with regards All members are invited rock quarry on the New Harris Road to the long term economic and to attend as well as south of the Seal Island Bridge and a environmental repercussions. interested citizens who Weather is still a major concern are concerned with the given increased volatility of weather future stewardship of In This Issue systems that pass over Cape Page Breton. Spring 2011 has been an the Bras d’Or Lakes. unpredictable one as low pressure News Items 2,3 systems stalled in the area creating AGM Nova Scotia Naturalists 3 cloud, rainy and windy weather. “Our goal Summer Student Projects 2010: A presentation by Bill Danielson A Review 4 author of “Cape Breton Weather is to Summer Student Located at Watching” at the Society’s AGM Highland Village, Iona 5 in April 2011 provided excellent protect, 2011 Summer Student Profile: Emily information on changing weather MacDonald 5 patterns based on the warming conserve 2011 Summer Student Profile: Elizabeth of the ocean temperatures that MacLellan 5 increases Cape Breton’s vulnerability and Quarries: Must Development Negate The Environment 5 of experiencing storm conditions. The dollar value of damage to land restore the The Highway is a Path of Life: A Clean Running Brook Sustains Life 6 and harbors in Cape Breton from storms in the fall of 2010 was in the Bras d’Or Evolution of Transportation in the Bras d’Or Watershed 6 millions of dollars. Both fisherman and private property owners were Lakes” Letter to Malcolm Gillis 7 storm victims. Excessive rains also www.brasdorstewardshipsociety.org dust, truck traffic and future accretive Lakes as a recreational boating mining rock from the hillside. A destination. A committee has been NEWS ITEMS: meeting was held with the Nova formed to work with Enterprise Cape Scotia Department of Environment. Breton Corporation to embark upon Annual AGM: (See article by Pate Bates) a three year marketing campaign he annual general meeting of that would target both Canadian Tthe Society was held on April 30, and American recreational boating 2011 at St, Michaels Hall in Baddeck. Ben Eoin Marina: markets. About 25 individuals attended. Both he proposal to construct a 70 the President’s report and that of Tberth marina at the head of the Treasurer were presented. East Bay adjacent to the Ben Eoin Bras d’Or Lakes William Danielson was the guest Golf Course property is moving Festival: speaker. His book “Cape Breton ahead. ECBC has been petitioned ork still continues under the Weather Watching” is an excellent for financial assistance by the egis of Enterprise Cape Breton read. Bill resides in South Harbor proponents who also have an interest W Corporation to build a program of after retiring from a professor of in the golf course. The shorefront festivals for the communities on meteorology at the University of property requires rezoning. An the shores of the Bras d’Or Lakes. Hartford in Connecticut. His weather application has been made to the A committee has been selected knowledge is exemplary and his municipality of to work with ECBC to bring this book a great addition for those for rezoning. Meetings have been program to fruition. ECBC has interested in the details of local held to inform the public about this been concentrating on festival Cape Breton weather phenomena. project. To date little information type promotion to enhance the has been put forward regarding the profile of the Bras d’Or Lakes cost and the long term sustainability as a recreational destination. Nova Scotia of this project. There are concerns Information may be accessed at about the location of this marina Naturalists: www.brasdorlakesfestival.com ova Scotia Naturalists held its as excavating and dredging of NAGM at the Gaelic College wetlands are involved. (See Pat from June 3-5, 2011. Society Board Bates’s Letter to Malcolm Gillis, 2010 Summer Planner CBRM) member, Dr. J. V. O’Brien, was Student Report: instrumental in organizing this ociety board member Lynn very successful gathering. Board Celebrate the member, Tim Lambert, spoke on SBaechler has provided a review the Bras d’Or lakes and its water Lakes: of the work of the two summer students hired in 2010 to carry our shed. Jim O’Brien has provided a summary of the “Celebrate the various projects initiated within detailed summary if the meeting in Lakes” contest is provided in A the Bras d’Or Lakes Watershed. this Newsletter. by Society board member Leah Cumulatively, these project Noble as published in the Victoria introduce students to various issues Standard. This contest asked for as well as build a better knowledge New Harris artistic and media submissions by base for better understanding of students from schools that were Quarry: the complexities of the issues that considered to be in the Bras d’Or he Society was informed about require on going attention. Tthe proposed expansion of a rock Lakes watershed. (See Victoria quarry on the New Harris Road. The Standard Reprint) existing quarry is to be increased in 2011 Summer size. Residents of the New Harris Students: Road were not consulted about this Bras d’Or Lakes expansion. They are concerned Marketing Study: wo students have been about this quarry expansion with Tengaged through the federal regards to environmental issues and ecently, a proposal has been governments ‘Summer Student deleterious Rtabled to create a marketing strategy for promoting the Bras d’Or actions with regards to blasting, ...cont’d on page 3 Page 2 www.brasdorstewardshipsociety.org News Items...cont’d It turned out to be ideal for such AGM Nova Scotia a meeting with accommodation, Employment Program’. Elizabeth Naturalists meals, and all the necessary MacLellan and Emily MacDonald, by J.V. O’Brien, facilities at a remarkably good price. both from Sydney NS, have Society Board Member To top it Gail Montgomery and the been hired to work in partnership rest of College staff did an excellent he Federation of Nova Scotia with the Bras d’Or Stewardship job; they were a credit to the College Naturalists now better known as Society and The Bras d’Or Lakes T and Cape Breton. Biosphere Reserve Committee Nature Nova Scotia (NNS) is, like the Bras d’Or Stewardship Society The week end opened on Friday and the Department of Fisheries. rd (BSS), a legally listed non-profit evening June 3 with a reception A report will follow in the January enhanced by the traditional music 2012 Blue Heron. The Society is corporation and as such has to have by law an Annual General Meeting played by Otis Tomas and Rocky grateful for this opportunity to uses Shore. enthusiastic students to assist in (AGM). On Saturday morning the day projects concerning knowledge However unlike the AGMs of started with a pre-breakfast birder enhancement and stewardship many ‘non-profits’, NNS makes spotting outing lead by Dave Harris. issues. an occasion of their AGM. It is a two day plus week-end with legally After breakfast the day started required business meeting taking with four in-house presentations Natural History up only a few hours of one day. The starting with Don Anderson’s on CB rest is spent on biologically relevant Dragon Flies. This was followed Series: indoor presentations and out door by Fenton Isenor on CB’s geology, series of evening talks on natural field trips etc. James Bridgland on the Highland’s National Park and last but not least history of the area will be held Since it is a federated group its A Bruce Hatcher the Bras d’Or Lakes. at the Bras d’Or lakes Interpretive AGMs are held in different locations Center staring on June 22, 2011. each year and sometimes in In the afternoon there were field Two more talks with be given on association with other groups and trips to Uisge Bann Falls lead July 27, 2011 and August 22, 2011. ‘non-profits’. Last year’s (2010) by botanist Sharon Sneddon, to The talks are open to the public and NNS AGM in Sherbrooke was held Meadow Rd. by birder Bev Brett, start at 7PM, The center is located in association with the Nova Scotia and separately to another Meadow in Baddeck’s historic Old Post Office Nature Trust and the St. Mary’s Rd destination to a sadly rare at 532 Chebucto Street. River Association. remnant of Acadian Forest by Bob Bancroft and Mary Ann Wilson Prior to that (2010) meeting, and by Dave McCorquodale in the members of the NNS board had Marriage College grounds identifying insects. suggested to me since an NNS Celebration: AGM not been held in Cape Breton After the Banquet in the evening OCIETY board members for some years and I was a BSS Bob Bancroft addressed the thorny Scelebrated the February board member I might consider Coyote issue. Though Astronomer marriage of Pat Bates, Society organizing the 2011 NNS AGM in Tim Donovan had hauled his chair, and Patricia Fricker, Charge the Baddeck area in association telescope from Middle River for d’Affaires of the Nova Scotia Sydney with the BSS. This I agreed to the occasion sadly the weather did Legal Aid Office, at a dinner at the do provided the BSS board also not co-operate on either night. The Inverary Inn after the April 30, agreed. It did and also agreed also foggy night though did not deter the 2011 annual general meeting. Pat agreed to sponsor two students for ‘owlers’ lead by ornithologist and has guided the Society since its the NNS meeting. Two such post bird photographer Dr. Richard Stern. inception and now has embarked graduate students, Molly Simon On Sunday morning BSS board on a new adventure! We wish the BSc from Antigonish and Jennifer member Tim Lambert made a both of them the very best. MacPhee BSc from Sydney were fascinating presentation on rising chosen and attended the meeting. water levels. This was followed by After looking around for a suitable the NNS annual business meeting. location at the suggestion of my In the afternoon a large group went neighbour Dan Banks I contacted ...cont’d on page 4 the Gaelic College in St.Anne’s Bay. www.brasdorstewardshipsociety.org Page 3 AGM Nova Scotia Naturalists...cont’d largest tributary (Indian Brook) flows logs to Whycocomagh Bay (in the on a Puffin Tour trip to the Bird into the Skye River within 2 km of spring), and was a favourite spot Islands and in Whycocomagh on the river mouth (deltaic environment for trout fishing. A new publication their way back to the mainland a in the Bras d’Or Lake). “Glimpses” was used to become few people broke their journey and The main branch of the Skye familiar with the historical aspects joined John Gillis on a local ‘walk in River watershed is a relatively well of the area. the woods’. populated rural area, with agriculture Findings: As the organizer my job was made being the prime land use. Four large • The Skye River branch became easier by the fact that all but two dairy farms are located in the main turbid (dirty) after heavy rainfall one of the presenters and field trip branch Skye River watershed. The events. Indian River branch is relatively un- leaders turned up and the ones who • The Skye River branch has populated with forestry being the couldn’t gave me ample warning. abundant growth of “whitewater main land use. make; not bad. And last but not crowfoot” in its channel, all the least the help obtained from the We determined the watershed areas way up to its headwater area. NNS executive, President Bob for the 2 branches of the Skye River Photographs show this plant growth 2 Bancroft, Secretary Doug Linzey, to be 48.3 km for the Indian River was not present in the channel 10 2 Treasurer Jean Gibson Collins and branch and 62.8 km For the Skye years ago (Sta S-1). Nature Canada representative Joan River branch. The Skye River • Fecal bacteria counts are Czapaly. watershed is underlain by at least 13 relatively low in headwaters of mapped bedrock units. Portions of At the meeting on behalf of Nature Skye and Indian branches (very the watershed are covered in thick Canada board representative Joan low in Indian Branch headwaters). Czapaly presented Bob Bancroft surficial deposits (glacial sand and with the Pimlott Prize in recognition gravel deposits). • Fecal bacteria counts were higher in the Skye branch, of the work he has done over the Activities: especially at Sta S-2. years for the Natural World in Nova Each of the 8 monitoring sites • Indian Branch has a population Scotia. was visited at least 6 times. Field of trout (fishers frequent at Sta I-3). Conductivity and temperature were collected with a YSI 30 conductivity • The relatively ‘clean’ water meter. Turbidity was measured flowing from the Indian branch using a turbidity meter. Discharge serves to dilute the higher bacteria Summer Student estimates were calculated using concentrations from the ‘Skye’ Projects 2010: A the cross sectional area x velocity branch. method. During the latter half of • Except at the headwater Review the monitoring period samples were stations, conductivity values reflect By Lynn Baechler, collected for determination of PO4, the dilution effects of precipitation Society Board Member SO4, NO3-N, color, turbidity and events on the water chemistry in TSS using a portable HACH kit. the Syke and Indian branches. Bacteria samples were submitted to ur project was attempting to • The underlying bedrock in the Maxxam Analytics in Sydney. The answer a question: “Is the Indian branch is mainly resistant O lab assisted us with costs. J. Foulds, water quality in the Skye River metamorphic rocks that are not aquatic biologist, accompanied the more dependent on land use or easily eroded, creating deeply student in the field one day and underlying geology”. incised channels and waterfalls. they described the aquatic habitat The geology underlying the Skye The Bras d’Or Stewardship Society at several of the monitoring stations. carried out a preliminary water branch consists of more easily The student interviewed several quality monitoring project in the eroded bedrock with extensive longtime residents of the Skye Skye River watershed between unconsolidated deposits creating River watershed, including the June 28 and August 19, 2010. fertile agricultural land. Increases late Hugh Austin. The interviews in stream velocities due to Project Description: were very informative, and showed precipitation events subject the The Skye River watershed covers the Skye River branch to have stream banks to erosion, resulting approximately 111 km2 of the 3566 been quite different in the past. km2 Bras d’Or Lake watershed. The The river was used for running ...cont’d on page 5

Page 4 www.brasdorstewardshipsociety.org Summer Student Projects 2010: be involved in research that could A Reivew...cont’d 2011 Summer potentially have an economic benefit for my home, Cape Breton. in turbidity in the water column. Student Profile: • The Skye branch is heavily Emily MacDonald farmed, with a population of dairy y name is Emily MacDonald; cattle. Topography near the river MI am currently undertaking a channel is gentle. M.Sc. program from Ulster University Quarries: Must • On the other hand, the Indian of Northern Ireland. As a graduate branch is more forested with student studying Coastal Zone Development steeper slopes, and less agriculture Management and a Cape Breton Negate the in the watershed. girl who grew up next to the Bras d’Or Lake, I could not ask for a more Environment? Conclusions: fitting summer job than with the By Pat Bates, Chairman Based on this very preliminary Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere Reserve he Bras d’Or Lake Stewardship summer project, we found that both Association (www.BLBRA.ca). As TSociety (BSS) frequently finds the underlying geology and the land the BLBRA eagerly anticipates the itself playing a determining role use practices contribute to the water official designation of ‘Man and in whether development projects quality in the Skye River. Biosphere’ (MAB) from the United proceed or not. The Society’s Nations Education Scientific and Recommendations: primary purpose, if it need be Cultural Organization (UNESCO) restated, is “Conservation, Further work should be done to preparation work is well under way to Protection and Restoration of The document changes in the Skye ensure the whole island will be made Bras d’Or Lake.” Yet, like most branch river channel. Perhaps aware of this unique opportunity. My citizens, we understand the need this could be carried out by local role over the next eight weeks will watershed group. cover a variety of tasks ranging from for development of the economy, developing educational outreach usually manifested in new projects, material, administrative assignments, improvement to our infrastructure, and collaborating with groups around including roads, buildings and the watershed in delivering art shows bridges necessitating paving, Summer Student and plays produced by school aged cement plants and quarries for located at children living around the lake. aggregate. Such is the case for expansion Highland Village, of the long established sand and Iona gravel pit on the New Haven Road, he student constructed an index 2011 Summer Victoria County, to Quarry status. Tof the items published in the Student Profile: The new classification means that Blue Heron. blasting will now become part of the Elizabeth MacLellan operation, a likelihood of increased He assisted the Highland Village y name is Elizabeth MacLellan. I traffic in an area adjacent to a camp staff with a similar project. He Mwas hired as a summer student for Boy Scouts and there exists made a short video of the Bras by Bras d’Or Stewardship Society. potential for higher levels of run-off d’Or Lake as he saw it. With Over the past month, this has entailed into the Lake. Officials for BSS met staff from the Highland Village collaboration with Department of on two occasions with staff for the Museum he collected several Fisheries and Oceans in working on Dept. of Environment including one archived pictures in the Grand a project to improve life for oysters in meeting attended by residents of the Narrows area, and attempted to Bras d’Or Lakes. We are conducting New Harris Road area. Some of the re-photograph them in the present fieldwork for further research of concerns of the residents include and determine shoreline changes. MSX disease through cultivation risk to residential water supply from This was impossible however due and collection of oysters, as well as blasting, scarification of elevated to the significant tree growth, which monitoring green crab predation at or land from excavation and damage to obstructed view planes. near three oyster sanctuaries in the local roadway and bridge from high Bras d’Or. I am very grateful for the levels of heavy truck traffic. experience the Stewardship Society has provided me and am excited to ...cont’d on page 6 www.brasdorstewardshipsociety.org Page 5 Quarries: Must Development Negate The to control run off sediment is an I personally am pleased with the Environment..cont’d important component in construction effort shown by the Construction BSS officials raised the spectre of site design. This company Dexter Company, once reminded, to protect risk of higher levels of sedimentation Construction “failed the test the lake even though MacLean’s and other contaminants flowing into until they were reminded of their brook is still showing lingering signs the Lake because of the absence of responsibilities.” of siltation. a sufficient number and capacity of Sediment is produced when soil I live very near MacLean’s brook and settling ponds. In addition, when partials are eroded from the land. it has been a source of enjoyment elevation of the Kelly’s Mountain Signs of runoff pollution during from the quiet peacefulness of this lands are considered, current road construction include obvious brook, to summer cottage people capacity of culverting appears changes in streams downstream who use the water for a variety of inadequate or non-functioning, from the construction such as; reasons to my children and now risking over-road type flooding at muddy water heading for in this grandchildren being able to catch even greater rates with increased case the Bras d’Or Lakes. smelt and speckled trout. activity levels. Early in the construction phase I Will there be speckled trout this year Officials were considerate in listening checked the brook and to my horror I doubt it but I will keep checking. to all the concerns expressed and the water looked like pure mud and were expected to weigh the issues running into the lakes. I called the in determining if the requested chair of the Bras d’or stewardship, permit would be granted. In the Pat Bates, to report this and to Evolution of event the necessary permitting is to inquire how this sediment could be Transportation be granted, it is hoped that project kept from entering the lakes. Pat proponents will be obliged to amend immediately went into action and in the Bras d’Or project plans to accommodate spoke with Sharon Munroe at the Watershed public concerns. Department of Environment, two By David Gunn, days later I checked the brook again Society Board Member and now there was a salt water berm installed at the mouth of the brook. Transportation in the Bras d’Or The Highway is a The water in the brook was still watershed has undergone dramatic Path of Life: A Clean looking like mud but there was no changes over the last 50 years. longer any sign of sediment entering Until the 1950’s there was regularly Running Brook the lake. scheduled steam ship service on the Sustains Life. Now, Mother Nature often likes to Lake. The last vessel to operate was By Mabel MacEachern, show who is boss and in doing so the SS Lakeview. Her predecessor Board Member and the material used in that berm was was the SS Marion. home owner in Irish Vale. on the shore on more than one The Lakeview left Sydney e all enjoy the great pleasure occasion but the construction Co. Monday, Wednesday and Friday Wof driving our vehicles was diligent and they kept replacing and proceeded to Whycocomagh on new beautifully constructed it until the water began to run clear where it spent the night. She left highways or any road way. This in the brook. Whycocomagh Tuesday, Thursday major reconstruction job took place In late November I checked the and Saturday for Sydney. Enroute between June and December of brook the water was clear but the the ship stopped at Government 2010. Like most everything there build up of sediment on rocks and wharves located at Ross Ferry, are consequences for someone or other material in the brook was very Boularderie, Big Harbour and something when natural habitats heavy. In mid June I walked most Baddeck. are inhibited. In this case when this of the brook between the highway This service carried freight and major road construction was started and the shore. There are great passengers as well as occasional on Middle Cape Hill and through improvements but the pools still livestock. The Lakeview was Irish Vale one brook in particular, show heavy signs of siltation. equipped with the classic steam MacLean’s Brook at the bottom of Overall I feel it’s safe to say we the whistle which allowed people on middle cape was greatly disturbed. general public are very happy with shore to mark her passage. Using best management practices the newly constructed highway. ...cont’d on page 7

Page 6 www.brasdorstewardshipsociety.org Evolution of Transportation in the Bras d’Or Watershed...cont’d Mr. Malcolm Gillis The Lake was also well served by Planning Dept. rail – The Inter Colonial Railroad was Cape Breton Regional Municipality opened in 1886. It served a number of lake side towns, Orangedale, Sent by e-mail to: [email protected] Alba, Estmere, McKinnons Harbour, Iona, Grand Narrows, Christmas Island, Bigbeach, Shenacadie, Dear Mr. Gillis: Beaver Cove and Boisdale. The Inter Colonial (later Canadian Subject: Proposed Ben Eoin Marina National) offered good service. In 1953 there were three passenger The Bras d’Or Lake d’Or Stewardship Society has consulted and trains each way….six days a week. been consulted on the proposed establishment of the subject project. The night train carried sleeping While we can’t ignore the potential economic benefits of the project, cars between Sydney, Halifax and the two areas of specific interest to the Society are: (a) the importance of an St. John. The day train offered a additional sewage pump-out station, and (b) by converse, the destruction of parlour car and food service. The a Barachois to enable the project to proceed. trains had railway Post Office cars. At the time of the Public Open House, May 4th (?), the Society neither Mail was sorted enroute. Mail a publically objected nor supported the initiative as several important pieces of letter to Montreal at Orangedale on information were absent: one, a clear picture of the scope of the environmental review of which the UINR piece had not been completed, and second, the the platform before the evening train formal or official position of the N.S. Dept. of Natural Resources in respect to and it would be in Montreal the day the proposal. The matter of re-zoning is a less important issue for the Bras after next in less than 48 hours. d’Or Lake Stewardship Society. The position of BSS generally is if there are no Major stations such as Orangedale long-term damages to the environmental integrity of the Lake and Lakeshore, sold thousands of money orders we do not object to projects. However, in the case of the Ben Eoin Marina, since men did not have checking we have to note the concerns expressed by some of the full-time residents accounts received and accepted of the area. express, less than a carload. We understand the reasoning for the selection of the proposed site and it would appear that the adjacent shoreline has similar physical characteristics Movements and carloads: also requiring inland excavation to create a sheltered harbor site. Absent Orangedale was open 24 hours a from the discussion to date is the compensation by the project proponents day, seven days a week. Order a enabling creation of an alternate Barachois. This is not a new concept but an canoe from Chestnut’s Fredericton, option believed, considered and implemented in other jurisdictions enabling it came on the train . In 1960 an authorities to approve the projects as originally designed. O’Day sailboat ordered from Toronto It is important to find the right balance in considering all the impacting came on the train . Fresh oysters factors related to project approval. Hence the importance of a broad-based were shipped from Orangedale environmental review, including public forms or hearings. Ben Eoin has to Montreal. People arrived at become the site for a succession of projects all considered as discrete or these stations by boat . A John individual initiatives. There are hints of more projects being contemplated. It MacLean ran a ferry service from may be important to have a “time out” to examine the exceptional attractiveness Malagawatch to Orangedale early of the community and set out a broader framework within which all existing and future projects and residents can find consensus. in the last century. With the coming of good roads and the automobile the steamer and Respectfully yours, the railway services disappeared - the steamer service disappeared P. J. (Pat) Bates, Chairman after the war - the railway service Bras d’Or Lake d’Or Stewardship Society was gradually abandoned. The Orangedale station closed in 1980’s 27 Wyndale Crescent and is now a museum. Sydney, NS B1S 3L4

www.brasdorstewardshipsociety.org Page 7 The Bras d’Or Stewardship Society Addresses and telephone numbers of the Board of Directors Pat Bates, Henry W. Fuller, David L. Gunn Stephen Sober Chairman Treasurer 2792 RR#2 RR #2 27 Wyndale Cresent RR#2 #1065 Big Harbour West Bay, N.S. River Denys, N.S. Sydney, N.S. Baddeck, N.S. B0E 3K0 B0E 2Y0 B1S 3L4 B0E 1B0 (902) 345-2263 (902) 756-2390 (902) 567-0827 (902) 295-2664 Leah Noble James M. Crawford Rosemary Burns, Dr. James V. O’Brien 32 Long Hill Road #894 Ainslie Glen Vice Chair RR#2 #1180 Big Harbour RR#2 P.O. Box 277 3042 West Bay Highway Baddeck, N.S. Baddeck, NS B0E 1B0 Whycocomagh, N.S. St. George’s Channel B0E 1B0 (902) 295-1059 B0E 3M0 RR #2 West Bay, N.S. (902) 295-2344 (902) 756-3556 B0E 3K0 Walter MacNeil (902) 345-2896 Timothy Lambert, Ph.D. 41 Grove St. James Foulds, Ph.D. Lower Ship Harbour Sydney, N.S. 6025 Kempt Head Rd. Lynn Baechler, RR#1, B1P 3M7 Boularderie, NS Secretary Lake Charlotte #752 (902) 562-5434 B0C 1B0 92 Crestdale Drive Nova Scotia (902) 674-2578 Sydney, N.S B0J 1Y0 B1L 1A1 (902) 845-2189 (902) 564-9303

Mabel MacEachern Bras d’Or Watch 93 Rigby Street to report any observed acts, incidents and violations Sydney, NS B1P 4T5 that threaten the integrity of Bras d’Or Lakes please call: (902) 562-6138 1 800 565 1633

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