Anne Crossman's column: Old homes tell stories of our past, connecting the past to the present
Annapolis Valley Register columnist Anne Crossman is a former journalist and media manager. She now does volunteer work in her community of Annapolis Royal, Annapolis County. - ContributedANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S. — It was the lilacs that had thick gnarly trunks and suckers coming up everywhere outside the front door that gave away the age of the house when we looked at it all those years ago.
When we talk about built heritage, that is what we mean. Buildings that belong to a time long ago when a family lived there. Or the time when a farmer, a widower who lived by himself, looked after the cows and the market garden well after he was blind. And there was a rope taking him out to the garden that needed weeding.
Some heritage houses and properties even have family cemeteries with a few markers of various sizes depending on the wealth of the family at the time.What a shame those city homes are being toppled to make way for rather featureless apartment blocks. Those new places don’t feel like homes to me. They feel like waystations from a family to the next station in life and onwards towards a home that will last and share its family stories with the next generation.
By the way, did you know that the present Nova Scotia Property Act “allows owners of municipally registered heritage buildings to demolish them after a three-year waiting period, a provision that exists nowhere else in Canada.” This is the kind of information you can find on the trust’s website.
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