Nova Scotia Book of Everything: Everything You Wanted to Know about Nova Scotia and Were Going to Ask Anyway [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Macintyre, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978478436 ISBN 13: 9780978478438

Verlag: MACINTYRE PURCELL PUB INC, 2019

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From the number of kilometers of coastline to the stories behind those weird place names (hello Ecum Secum) to profiles of Joe Howe and Alexander Keith, there is no book as comprehensive as the Nova Scotia Book of Everything. There is also no book more fun. Well-known Nova Scotians like Premier Rodney MacDonald weigh in on subjects like the five Nova Scotians he admires most; Ashley MacIssac tells us his five greatest Nova Scotians; Joel Plaskett gives up his favourite hangouts. The worst weather, Nova Scotia slang, the greatest crimes…it’s all here!

Whether you are a life long resident or visiting for the first time, there simply is no other book that delivers the goods. If you love Nova Scotia, you’ll love the Nova Scotia Book of Everything.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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John MacIntyre has been writing books for more than 15 years. He is the owner of MacIntyre Purcell Publishing.

John MacIntyre is a journalist, a writer, and an editor. His work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, and Canadian Lawyer, and he writes a syndicated column, "Figuratively Speaking," which appears in more than 70 newspapers in the United States and Canada. He lives in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

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Nova Scotia Book of Everything

Everything You Wanted to Know about Nova Scotia and were Going to Ask Anyway

By John MacIntyre, Martha Walls

MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.

Copyright © 2011 MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-9784784-3-8

Contents

INTRODUCTION, 
FAREWELL TO NOVA SCOTIA, 
TIMELINE, 
NOVA SCOTIA ESSENTIALS, 
PLACE NAMES, 
SLANG, 
NATURAL WORLD, 
WEATHER, 
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 
CULTURE, 
ECONOMY, 
POLITICS, 
THEN AND NOW, 
BLACK AND WHITE, 
FIRST PEOPLES, 
TAKE FIVE, 

CHAPTER 1

Farewell To Nova Scotia

"Farewell to Nova Scotia" is the unofficial anthem for the province. It is a sailor's lament of unknown authorship. It is believed to have been written during or just before the First World War and is thought to have been derived from "The Soldier's Adieu" attributed to Scottish poet, Robert Tannahill. It was discovered by celebrated Nova Scotian folklorist Helen Creighton.

The sun was setting in the west,
The birds were singing on every tree.
All nature seemed inclined for to rest
But still there was no rest for me.

Chorus

Farewell to Nova Scotia, you sea-bound coast,
Let your mountains dark and dreary be.
For when I am far away on the briny ocean tossed
Will you ever heave a sigh and a wish for me?

I grieve to leave my native land,
I grieve to leave my comrades all.
And my parents whom I held so dear
And the bonnie, bonnie lassie that I do adore.

The drums they do beat and the wars do alarm,
The captain calls, we must obey.
So farewell, farewell to Nova Scotia's charms
For it's early in the morning I am far, far away.

I have three brothers and they are at rest,
Their arms are folded on their breast.
But a poor simple sailor just like me
Must be tossed and driven on the dark blue sea.

CHAPTER 2

Nova Scotia:

A Timeline

10,000 Before Present: An estimated 12,000 to 75,000 Mi'kmaq live in Mi'kma'ki, their territory consisting of the eastern half of the Gaspé, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island.

1497: Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) lands on Nova Scotia, and whets European appetites with tales of the massive cod stocks of the North American coast.

1524: The term "Acadie" is first used by an Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, to designate a large region of northeastern North America.

1605: First French Settlement is established in Nova Scotia at Port Royal, near present day Annapolis Royal.

1606: The first social club in North America is established; the Order of Good Cheer, which encourages regular merriment and feasting, is established to help settlers at Port Royal pass cold, lean, winter months.

1610: Mi'kmaq Grand Chief Membertou is baptized by Jesuit missionaries, becoming the first Catholic convert in Nova Scotia.

1613-1763: Nova Scotia is a North American battleground in a series of wars and skirmishes between France, England and the Mi'kmaq.

1632: Three hundred French settlers, the first "Acadians," establish a thriving French colony in Nova Scotia.

1713: France establishes Fortress of Louisbourg, a truly multi-cultural fortified community on the edge of the continent, at Cape Breton.

1749: Halifax established by Britain to counter French Louisbourg.

1752: North America's first newspaper, the Halifax Gazette, is established.</

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MACINTYRE PURCELL PUB INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0978478436
• ISBN 13: 9780978478438
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar