ESRI Canada offered an online seminar “Where community matters: new horizons in Canadian Public Health using GIS“. I was unable to attend online but could share the recording.
My interest stemmed from two perspectives:
a) we have a health services crisis in rural Nova Scotia;
b) we have access to GIS technology at COGS.
Specific questions in Annapolis County would be:
- What are the demographics in the region (i.e. age distribution and geography)?
- What access to health care services exist (e.g. hospitals, family doctors, travel times to Kentville, Digby etc.)?
The application of GIS to these health questions would make excellent co-operative projects for COGS students.
Given our circumstances, it is critical that the population is proactive, in terms of health.
This week, we completed two, relatively short walks.
We went down to Mickey Hill Provincial Park. This is a loop trail near Graywood on the road to Kejimkujik National Park (see also AllTrails link).
The second walk was the new CARP Marsh Trail in Middleton. This suggest that our communities recognize the need for citizens to take local walks for health. Every community needs access to both short and long trails.
Last Saturday, at the Paradise craft market, I was able to pick up Barbara Bishop’s “Promises to Keep: A Story of Nova Scotia” (see Saltwire link). This traces stories of the Leonard family, going back to Wilmot, 1789.
From the back cover:
’All were touched by the Landing at the Head of the Tide in a place known as Paradise. To step into this book is to see how our common humanity is changeless – that we can face the worst, sacrifice everything, and still find our way.’
Acknowledgements
ESRI Canada offered the online seminar. Heather joined me on the two short walks. Barbara Bishop signed my copy of her book.
References
Barbara Bishop, 2016, Promises to Keep: A Story of Nova Scotia, etc Press Ltd. (see Saltwire link)
Ernest Blair Experiment 