Halifax at the Time of Confederation
…most of which have vanished-Steele’s and the Quarry Ponds at Point Pleasant, the Egg Pond on the Common, two at Fort Needham and on the Rockhead property, and Stanford’s Ponds…
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1840
…— its population dispersing, while those who still clung to it were haunted with visions of the past, and reflections on the fortunes which they had not made by the…
Footprints Around and About Bedford Basin
…them. The saw mill was near Dartmouth Cove. On the following day, Sunday, the governor and council met on board the Beaufort. They decided not to declare war against the…
Amalgamation Perspectives: Citizen Responses to Municipal Consolidation
…did the same for the Halifax region (field interviews, Nova Scotia 1995b). At the time, proponents of amalgamation argued that this effort would decrease the over-all cost of government, improve…
From John Adams To the Reverend Caleb Gannett
…Application to them, fruitless. (This cause was Gannett’s claim to five hundred acres granted to him as the first settled minister for the Congregationalists gathered around Fort Cumberland. New Englanders…
1842
…issued an appeal for every available man to assemble at Dartmouth on Sunday, April 17, for a combined and organized effort. Nearly three thousand responded. They were determined that the…
Sketches on a tour through the northern and eastern states, the Canadas & Nova Scotia
…so absurd an argument as is sometimes held forth in matters of less importance.” Myers, J. C. Sketches On a Tour Through the Northern And Eastern States, the Canadas &…
Sorting “Natives” from “Indians”: Interrogating Historic Burials in the Catholic Burying Ground on the Dartmouth Common (1835-1865)
…for sure because he never fully disclosed what inspired him to invest such effort into the story of indigenous burials. Surely, it was not only for tourism purposes and there…
Papers relative to the settling of the Maroons in His Majesty’s province of Nova Scotia
“Dartmouth, 8th August 1797…What appears to have influenced them against settling and providing for their own comfort?” Wentworth, John. “Papers relative to the settling of the Maroons in His Majesty’s…
“A Clarion Call To Real Patriots The World Over”: The Curious Case of the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada in New Brunswick during the 1920s and 1930s
…the western hemisphere as opposed to with its imperial brethren, became even more prominent. The declining fortunes of the British Empire after the First World War, its military disengagement from…