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Aug 9
26m 20s

The passage of time on the Tantramar

CBC
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Hundreds of hay barns used to dot the Tantramar Marsh between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Those barns have all but faded into memory, but what remains behind is a powerful testament to the time, and change. The CBC's Jonna Brewer catalogued the landscape in 2016 with this moving and poetic documentary.

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