Heritage Day cook-out

Yesterday we celebrated Heritage Day (and the beautiful sunshine) with an impromptu cook-out at Battery Park, St. Peter's. This year our newish mid-February Heritage Day holiday honored Mona Parsons, the only Canadian woman to be taken prisoner by the Germans in WWII. The b'ys built a fire for roasting sausages, and we loaded up the picnic table with buns, condiments, bevvies, and peeled-off layers of clothing as the afternoon warmed up. 

Battery Park is also a place worthy of honoring our past: the park is a site where Europeans and the Mi'kmaq Nation made early contact, and a walk through its  woodland trails reveals ruins of small French and British fortresses from the 1700s.