It started with an unusual light bill.
Last February, Nelson Miller was confused when he got an electricity bill for his cottage. The 83-year-old rarely used his rural Nova Scotia cottage in winter.
“So I called [the utility]. And they said, ‘The people that bought your property want you to pay the light bill,'” Miller recalled.
“Pardon? What’s going on? My property is not for sale.”
In an unfortunate series of events involving taxes and a decades-old unregistered deed, the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s had sold the land without his knowledge.
Nelson Miller at his home in Alton, N.S. The 83-year-old had
