Bogumił Pacak-Gamalski

A very recent young immigrant to Canada, a handsome fellow from Ivory Coast in Africa. And striking exotic beauty. Met him and told him a bit of the history of Black people in Nova Scotia going back all the way to the first settlements in Nova Scotia, both French (New France Acadia) and the British fort of Halifax soon after that. I researched a very important part of that history a few years ago and wrote about it on this blog in a series of articles. Like most young people settling from abroad in Halifax and facing the shockingly high cost of renting he doesn’t own a car and his Nova Scotian experience is somewhat limited to Halifax proper.

The day was nice, sunny, although cold, and I took him for a ride and ‘beachcombing’ on the Eastern Shore. The most magical place in this province to meet the ocean. The same ocean (just opposite shore) he faced in his home country.  A sweet accent of it was his recent visit to … my hometown – Warsaw in Poland. I was just about his age when I left Warsaw. He was also surprisingly glamorous and a’la mode in his attire. That was such a photogenic contrast with the wild surroundings of our trek.

Therefore let me introduce the exotic features and alluring beauty of Ismael, voila!

The photographer was there, too (LOL). The entire session was done on Conrad Beach and on the high cliffs by the coffee shop near Lawrencetown.