On this date about 130 years ago, Leander Eaton, Esq., of Canard was busy building an addition “to his already large and first-class barn.”

At the same time, E. and O. Chase of nearby Church Street were making extensive repairs on their farm where an “old barn is being raised to the same level as the new one.”

This informal, folksy news was reported in the June 10, 1891, issue of Kentville’s weekly newspaper, the Western Chronicle. In the same issue, the paper reported that horse racing would resume at the Kentville Driving Park, that there have been “fine catches of salmon” in weirs at Halls Harbour, where coincidentally, J. W. Thorpe is “making extensive repairs in his house.”