Eugene Sauvé was determined to find the ideal new owners for his aptly named Landmark Café. With the help of his children and small staff, Sauvé had spent three decades building the Landmark into an eatery much beloved by regulars in and around Victoria-by-the-Sea. Word of good food, great service and a warm island atmosphere spread, just as Victoria began
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Jenny and Jackie Myers dreamed of one day owning a business in the tiny village of Victoria. Born in nearby Tryon in 1967, the family moved to Ontario when the twin sisters were four years old. But they returned for every summer vacation (and a few Christmases), often staying on an uncle’s 42-foot sailboat moored in Victoria Harbour. “The wharf
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Eugene Sauvé was determined to find the ideal new owners for his aptly named Landmark Café. With the help of his children and small staff, Sauvé had spent three decades building the Landmark into an eatery much beloved by regulars in and around Victoria-by-the-Sea. Word of good food, great service and a warm island atmosphere spread, just as Victoria began
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There’s a bit of ritual involved in properly enjoying absinthe. The distilled spirit – often mistaken for a liqueur, despite being up to 75 percent alcohol – is served with three parts water, to cut the bitterness of wormwood. The ice water should pour from an absinthe fountain, onto a cube or two of sugar, perched on a flat slotted
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There’s a little piece of highland heaven hidden on Canada’s east coast. Tucked away in Glenville, County of Inverness, along Cape Breton’s Ceilidh Trail, is an area sufficiently isolated for most of its history that it has maintained a great many of its Celtic customs. It’s an area where the kids are as likely to learn fiddling and highland dancing
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