For an organization that played an important role in the physical environment and economy of the Tantramar and other Bay of Fundy tidal regions, the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration (MMRA) doesn’t have much historical profile. Or at least it didn’t, until environmental historian Ronald Rudin discovered it.
Tonight at 7pm the Campbell Carriage House Museum, Rudin will tell the story of the MMRA, and how, among other things, it dammed the Tantramar River in 1960, much to the chagrin of some local farmers of the time.
Rudin quite literally wrote the book on the MMRA, and the event tonight, presented by the Tantramar Heritage Trust and Tidewater Books, serves as the launch of his book, Against The Tides: Reshaping landscape and community in Canada’s Maritime Marshlands.
Ronald Rudin spoke with CHMA Wednesday from Baie-Ste-Anne, where he’s conducting research on his next project. He says he found his way to the wider story of the MMRA via the Petitcodiac Causeway:
