Sieur de Monts‚ who was a French noble appointed by the king of France to set up trading posts in Canada. In the summer of 1605‚ de Monts‚ Champlain and approximately sixty settlers and established a small post called “Port Royal” in what is now Nova Scotia. However‚ it was not a great success‚ and it was abandoned by 1607. Even Champlain’s cooking club‚ The Company of Good Cheer‚ could not hold the group together. Champlain was still convinced that
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imprisonment for the murder of Sandy Seale in 1971. The wrongful conviction occurred on May 28‚ 1971 when Seale‚ a 17 year old was walking home from a school dance. He came across his friend Donald Marshall in Wentworth Park located in Sydney‚ Nova Scotia. Marshall and Seale were talking when a man named Roy Ebsary‚ a drunk who had a reputation for being violent and unpredictable and was previously convicted for a knife related weapon charge‚ and his friend Jimmy MacNeil. MacNeil stopped them to
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law. It is often based on differences of race‚ religion‚ wealth‚ or culture. The first major challenges to racial segregation in Canada occurred in 1946 when Viola Desmond‚ a black businesswoman‚ refused to sit in the balcony of a New Glasgow‚ Nova Scotia‚ theater but instead sat downstairs‚ an area designated exclusively for whites. Viola Desmond’s action occurred nine years before Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery‚ Alabama Causes of
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On December‚ 6th‚ 1917‚ an unexpected explosion at Halifax‚ Harbour front had left the citizens of the Nova Scotia capital and the rest of Canada devastated. Five minutes after 9:00 a.m on that day‚ hundreds of people were killed and thousands were severely injured by the impact. A collision of two ships on the harbour due to miscommunication left everything destroyed during the time of WWI. The crash had led to the French munitions ship‚ the SS Mont-Blanc to blow up in flames. Caused by impact from
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Bishop was five her mother was permanently institutionalised and was never reunited with her daughter. Bishop’s maternal grandparents took care of her and she spent her early childhood with them on their farm in Nova Scotia. Bishop was very happy there‚ and it was while living in Nova Scotia that she became a keen fisherwoman. However‚ her father’s family claimed custody of her in 1917 and took her back to Massachusetts. Bishop was very unhappy there‚ and developed chronic asthma. As a result of this
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Canadian Culture: The Northern Mosaic Canada is one of two countries located in North America and is the second largest country in the world. It is situated just north of the United States and constitutes the northern part of the country‚ excluding Alaska. Over the years Canada ’s culture has been influenced by European culture and traditions‚ mainly that of the French and British. Canadian culture has also been influenced by the countries ’ first people‚ the Aboriginals‚ as well as the newer
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Alexander Graham Bell In the context of history‚ Alexander Graham Bell has contended to be an inspiring figure who became an inventor‚ an educator‚ a scientist‚ and a linguist in his lifetime. More specifically‚ Alexander Graham Bell conducted important work in inventing and teaching the deaf of the world‚ and eventually ended up making impactful changes to the world in both his childhood and adulthood. In note of this‚ Alexander Graham Bell’s lifetime reflects the multitude of ideas he had to offer
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References: Ha-has were also used in North America. Only two remain in Canada‚ one of which is on the grounds of Nova Scotia ’s Uniacke House (1813)‚ a rural estate built by Richard John Uniacke‚ an Irish-born Attorney-General of Nova Scotia.
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A Report on the movie The Perfect Storm Purpose: To watch a popular Hollywood natural disaster movie and review and summarize the scientific merit of it in a report‚ for my report I chose The Perfect Storm. A movie that is based on the actual storm in late October 1991 later called “The Perfect Storm” (Viets 2000). Also to comment on how realistic the movies’ storyline‚ effects and scientific merit when compared to the real life disaster which it is trying to recreate. Introduction In late
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explorer Leif Eriksson may have reached the shores of Canada in 1000‚ but the actual history of the white man in the country actually began in 1497. This was when “John Cabot‚ an Italian in the service of Henry VII of England‚ reached Newfoundland or Nova Scotia. Canada was taken for France in 1534 by Jacques Cartier. France’s colonization efforts were not very successful‚ but French explorers by the end of the 17th century had gone beyond the Great Lakes and south along the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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