Fire that grew to become part of Nova Scotia’s largest wildfire started on this man’s property

Fire that grew to become part of Nova Scotia’s largest wildfire started on this man’s property
A man wearing a blue tracksuit top and beige ball cap is pointing in a treed meadow.

Court documents from last month’s sentencing of Dalton Stewart, who was charged under the Forests Act, revealed the fire was set on land owned by Mervyn Perry. Perry says it will take years for his land to get back to what it used to be like.