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Nova Scotia Burning

Shayne Howe outside his home in Poplar Grove, Hants County, the scene of cross-burning last February. (ERIC WYNNE / Staff)

Nova Scotia burning - Part I

THEY ARE A SYMBOL OF HATE from the Deep South’s troubled past.

Burning crosses conjure up images of lynchings, beatings...

Waiting with Nathan Rehberg, second from left, for his sentencing hearing to begin at Kentville provincial court are his girlfriend Maria Mason, far left, mother Wanda Lynn Macumber, centre, brother Justin Rehberg and stepfather Daniel Macumber. (ERIC WYNNE / Staff)

Why did they do it?

THERE WERE MANY questions after Nathan and Justin Rehberg burned a cross outside the home of a biracial couple in rural Hants County last...

Wanda Lynn Macumber, the mother of Justin and Nathan Rehberg, weeps for her boys, now in jail for inciting racial hatred by burning a cross: They 'had a rough go growing up.' (ERIC WYNNE / Staff)

'The cross-burners'

Shayne Howe and Michelle Lyon pose with their children in their blended family home. A cross was burned on their lawn in an act of racial hatred. (ERIC WYNNE / Staff)

Mississippi of the North: Is this label deserved?

THE MISSISSIPPI OF THE NORTH.

For any province, it would be an embarrassment to be...

The team: Photojournalist Eric Wynne, page editor Nadine Fownes, copy editor Randy Jones, reporter Patricia Brooks Arenburg and director Jayson Taylor. Web editor Rick Conrad and Web developers Jason Hurst and Joseph Dedrick produced the online components. (MIKE HARVEY / Staff)

METHODOLOGY: How we produced this series

ON DEC. 1, THE CHRONICLE HERALD’s multimedia team appeared unannounced at the Garlands Crossing home where Justin Rehberg was...

Cross-burning: Timeline

Not the first cross-burning case in Canada

Rehberg brothers apologize to victims

COURT DOCUMENTS: 'I cannot be alone, I have too much fear ...'

Panel and reader discussion of the series

Why this difficult story had to be told

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