Featured Nova Scotian Archive

Rany Ibrahim is the only Nova Scotian nominated among the Top 75 finalists in the fourth annual Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards. The awards are a program of Canadian Immigrant Magazine and RBC Royal Bank.

 Ibrahim is a Marketing Program Manager at the Nova Scotia Office of Immigration, a part-time professor of International Business Strategy at Dalhousie University Faculty of Management, and a governor at Cape Breton University.Read more

Nova Scotia's 28th annual African Heritage Month celebrations pay tribute to Unsung Heroes: Men who Make a Difference.

Everett Desmond
Upper Big Tracadie

Everett Desmond is a pillar of support in the Guysborough area as a volunteer and lay leader with Tracadie Baptist Church and other community groups. He selflessly gives of his time, energy,and even finances to help the young and old and anyone in need.Read more

Nova Scotia's 28th annual African Heritage Month celebrations will pay tribute to Unsung Heroes: Men who Make a Difference.

Keith Miller
Yarmouth

For more than 25 years Keith Miller has volunteered as an Auxiliary Constable at the Yarmouth RCMP Detachment. He has helped train dozens of recruits and served as a mentor, teacher, coach, friend, and role model to many African Nova Scotian youth.Read more

Pardis Parker is an award-winning director, writer, actor, and comedian.Read more

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kayla Hoolwerf moved to Lantz, Nova Scotia at the age of 5. After living here for over 12 years, Nova Scotia is where Kayla calls home. Currently a Grade 12 high school student at Hants East Rural High, Kayla is a dancing enthusiast – participating in jazz, tap, lyrical, ballet, hip hop and contemporary dance classes with locally owned and operated, Dance Zone Performing Arts Centre. In addition to her love of dance, Kayla also has interests in drawing, photography and creating short videos.Read more

Lucinda Low
Founder and Executive Director
Bridgeway Academy

Lucinda Low believes in children. She believes any child with a learning disability can learn, and she refuses to give up on that belief, even when that child may have given up on herself.Read more

J. Chalmers Doane of South Maitland, Hants Co., has been called one of the most outstanding music educators in Canada. He was a supervisor of music education in the Halifax school system from 1967 to 1984. He established an innovative music education program that taught thousands of children to play an instrument and helped foster a lifelong appreciation and love of music. His unique, accessible program, featuring the ukulele, was so successful that it quickly became adopted in schools across North America. He is a multi-instrumentalist and has founded many orchestras and bands.Read more