Chéticamp Street Scene Close-up

Chéticamp, once a popular tourist spot and known as the rug-hooking captital of the world, is in economic decline. Except for this row of three houses, everything about Chéticamp looked tired and worn. Chéticamp once was fishing station inhabited by the Acadians and many of them still live here. I knocked on the doors of these houses to ask for the car blocking my photograph to be moved and wound up having a very interesting conversation with an owner, who maintained the house her father had been born and lived in. She and her partner worked on the Canadian pipeline during the winter to earn money to keep the house in Chéticamp. It was one of those chance meetings that turned into something truly magical.

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