Halifax Neighbourhood: Raft and Mahar

halifax neighbourhood: I spoke to her this week about her part in the Henri Beaudout adventure, according to The Chronicle Herald. Mahar, 81, feels like 60 , and still goes swimming on sunny days. Rose Marie Comeau Mahar, Halifax watercolour artist, is like that. In 1956, she was just a child, she said, when she crossed paths with four bearded young men who were building a raft. The Halifax neighbourhood where they were lashing the raft together, now an area of high-rise condos called King Wharf, was in those days a little cove, with just a little shipyard, recalled Mahar. Led by Beaudout, a French immigrant to Canada, the men intended to drift to Europe on the raft. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.