Wild heather in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Credit: www.peterjowett.com and http://sustainableantigonish.ca. All rights reserved.
When he was excited, Jimmy Tompkins liked to say that “there’s no Catholic or Protestant way to catch a fish” in a high-pitched voice he never could control. As a Catholic priest in Canso, Nova Scotia, in the late 1920s, Tompkins and others were involved in a struggle to break the hold of local merchants over the lives of small-scale fisherman in the diocese of Antigonish.
