Sitting Down with the Whale Museum’s New Director | Islands' Weekly

Sitting down with the Whale Museum’s new director | Islands' Weekly

He has only been the director of The Whale Museum for a few months, but Dr. Mike Kuperberg and his wife are already settling into the community and have set a few goals for the museum. “I’m reminded regularly how small and tight this community is. The people and place have been amazing. Everyone has been so warm and welcoming, supportive, greeting me and happy that I’m here,” Kuperberg said. “There seems to be a consensus that the Whale Museum i…

Name that whale, why I’m voting for Stanley

LAURIE WEIR There’s a whale of a tale coming out of Smiths Falls this week.  Not one swimming past the water tower or sunning in the basin, but the fossilized bones of a humpback that once swam through this area more than 10,000 years ago, when the Champlain Sea covered much of eastern Ontario. The remains were discovered in 1882 at the Welsh ballast pit, just a few kilometres outside of town, and later donated to the Redpath Museum at McGill Un…