The Antigonish Heritage Museum is giving a Heritage Day gift to Nova Scotia and the world by providing free access to a new online library of more than a century of local news.
The museum became the caretaker for bound issues of The Casket community newspaper spanning 1890 to 2006 and decided to make them available to the public in digital form, says curator Barry MacKenzie.
The Casket was first published in 1852 and was the “newspaper of record” for the county and much of eastern Nova Scotia, MacKenzie said.
He said until now researchers wanting to see the newspaper had to view issues on microfilm at
