Remembering Rudy: Looking Back on the Life of a Chester Legend

There must have been a fair wind blowing the day the late Rudy Haase decided to move his young family to East Chester, Nova Scotia back in 1967. A naval architect by profession, a sailor in the purest sense of the word and a conservationist through and through, “he did a lot for Nova Scotia,” said long-time friend Syd Dumaresq. “He was just a wonderful guy. I would say Nova Scotia was lucky that he decided to move here with his family.” A native son of the United States, Rudy ...