City of Ottawa to study Hamilton anti-renoviction bylaw

As a boy, Charles Doucette remembers his father pulling into the driveway with a grey seal carcass in the back of his pickup truck. Noel Doucette, a long-time chief of Potlotek First Nation, had shot the animal with a hunting rifle and butchered it on a beach near the community on Unama’ki, or Cape Breton Island, in northeastern Nova Scotia in the 1970s.In their front yard, the older man instructed his son how to scrape the thick white blubber off the hide, boil it in a large metal drum over an outdoor fire, and stretch the silvery pelt across a wooden frame.