The Jubilee House

08/22/2025

10/14/2024

City planners might want to loosen their white-knuckled grip on regulation long enough to see that true communities—like those in encampments—are less about what the buildings look like and more about the spaces between them.

City planners might want to loosen their white-knuckled grip on regulation long enough to see that true communities—like those in encampments—are less about what the buildings look like and more about the spaces between them.

06/29/2024

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." – Alphonse Karr, Lettres Écrites De Mon Jardin

Frosty at dusk.

The Jubilee House

06/07/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v_jhm0hMZY

Here's Jean Ritchie- Jubilee. I couldn't find it anywhere on YouTube so I made my own. Enjoy!No copyright infringement intended.

05/27/2024

Municipal elections are coming up October 19, 2024 and they will impact your life. You'll be getting a new mayor! Here's all you need to know to be a municipal citizen and vote in the October election.

Click the link below.

05/24/2024

Friends and neighbours, I’m starting a new local journal for Nova Scotia and I’d like your help.

With elections coming up municipally, federally, and provincially in Nova Scotia, The Bee will be a weekly journal devoted To News, Politics, Literature, Creativity, Agriculture, and Beauty in Nova Scotia.

We’ll write supporting progress, prosperity, and purpose through radical reforms in bureaucracy, intentional localism, and… let’s call it Right-sizeism - the rational pursuit of the right solutions to the mistakes we’ve spent a lot of money and a long time making in Nova Scotia.

To start things off on the right trail, one that is long and wide, here’s an article comparing Halifax government to a man obsessing over the size of his p@n*s.

See the link below.

04/15/2024

I sure appreciate Barry Copp's efforts to keep us all connected to the story of Halifax's past and how it can shape our future. His post today reminded me of the calendar.

It was on this date, April 15, 1912, that George Henry Wright (October 26, 1849 – April 15, 1912) perished on the RMS Titanic.

Wright made his fortune by starting up an international business directory, and was known in Halifax for developing housing for low-income families. The shy millionaire, George Wright, was never seen at all. He seems to have stayed in his cabin right to the very end. He may have slept through the disaster.

He was one of two Haligonians on the ship. The other, Hilda Slayter, survived. The old mansion he left to the Halifax Local Council of Women is still standing there today, though it’s showing its age. While his body was never found, a memorial stone in his honour lies in Christ Church Cemetery in Dartmouth, N.S.

The home still retains many of its notable features and ornamentation, defining its corner in the heart of Halifax but it still belies its greater import without folks like Barry sharing the story.

03/29/2024

Happy Easter! I hope you're surrounded by sunshine, flowers, chocolate, and family on this happy week end of hope for the spring to come.

03/01/2024

You can't trust March.
One day, you step outside, thinking winter's finally packed its bags, and bam! You're smacked by a snowstorm that makes you question all your life choices, including why you didn't buy those snow tires on spring sale. You end up snow-mining by hand for the snow shovel, toboggans, and snow shoes that you really meant to put away, which are now UNDER the snow.
It's a month when you can wake up to a warm sun burning through the curtains only to get outside and find that the sun has lost an epic battle with the wind that's blowing away the warmth - and everything else in the yard. Or you wake up to a cold blue-grey day and bundle up with everything you got, only to swelter on the warm still walk to work.
Rain turns to ice, ice turns to snow, snow turns to rain and ice, the sun comes out, disappears, and then it all happens again... before lunch.
Then, just as you're about to write a strongly worded letter to Mother Nature or ask to speak to the meteorological manager, along comes a sunny day, tricking you, or at least that one guy in the neighbourhood and all the college students, into shorts and flip-flops, only for March to laugh and hurl another harvest of slush across the town.
It's the kind of month that makes weather forecasters mumble and shuffle their feet, pointing at maps like lost tourists.
In Nova Scotia, March is less a path to spring and more a month of unpredictable environmental mood swings. And when the temperature runs from +17 to -17 we're reminded that we live in a place where are person could be killed just by being caught outside in the weather in the wrong situation.
So, trust March? You'd be better off trusting a seagull with your lunch.

11/16/2023

The Jubilee Fountain
In commemoration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897

11/12/2023

100 Years Goes By Fast

One of the descendants of the Mathers family stopped by the house tonight and gave us some amazing artifacts. A compendium of letters from the war years, one of the original deeds, some flyers about the Designer Showcase from the 90's, and this amazing photo from the height of summer 100 years ago.

The city has changed around the house in that time. You can see farm fences in the background. And with the trees and shrubs much reduced you get a feel for how big and level the property really is.

Still, everything seems so familiar.

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11/05/2023

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