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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's Atlantic provinces and consists largely of a peninsula that is 360 miles (580 kilometers) in length.
Nova Scotia lies in the northern temperate zone and, although it is almost surrounded by water, the climate is classified modified continental rather than maritime.
Nova Scotia itself annually releases about 430,000 tons of nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide (gases that cause smog), 248,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide (gases that produce acid rain), and the equivalent of 4.7 million tons of carbon dioxide.
nationsencyclopedia.com /canada/Alberta-to-Nova-Scotia/Nova-Scotia.html   (5997 words)

  
 novascot
Nova Scotia Power Inc. is a world leader in the clean burning of coal for electricity generation, and has been approached by several Caribbean and Asian utilities for advice on how to control fossil fuel emissions.
Nova Scotia was one of the four provinces that formed the new federation called the Dominion of Canada in 1867.
Nova Scotia was the birthplace of three Canadian prime ministers: Sir John Thompson (1845-94), Sir Charles Tupper (1821-1915), and Sir Robert Borden (1854-1937).
cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/novascot.htm   (5820 words)

  
 Review On Nova Scotia by Cousin2 - MouthShut.com
NOVA SCOTIA is one of Canada’s Atlantic Provinces.
Tourism Nova Scotia has broken down the Province into routes to make it easier for you to plan you vacation.
The Lighthouse Route follows Nova Scotia’s South Shore and is a coastal highway.
www.mouthshut.com /review/Nova_Scotia-18453-1.html   (835 words)

  
 various artists, Sailing on the Sea: An East Coast Compilation
Having heard "Farewell to Nova Scotia" performed with an upbeat rhythm, I was surprised when I heard the delicate voice of youngster Aselin Debison whispering those familiar words.
Nova Scotia guitar virtuoso Gordie Sampson contributes his version of Sinead Lohan's "Sailing By," from his album Stones.
It is a touching tribute to Nova Scotia, but the combination of Gracie's soothing voice and a regular guitar rhythm make me sleepy.
www.rambles.net /va_eastcoastsailing.html   (697 words)

  
 Farewell to Nova Scotia
As the leaves were falling this October, Nova Scotia became "the Maharishi Island of World Peace", at a site tourists the world over flock to see, the Canso Causeway.
Nova Scotians, such as "bluenoser" Yours Truly call N.S. "down home" and "God's country", preferring those terms of endearment to its Latin name, "New Scotland".
Meanwhile, more than a sailor's lament is putting Nova Scotia on the map and the words Farewell to Nova Scotia are taking on an entire new meaning.
www.canadafreepress.com /2005/edesk101505.htm   (533 words)

  
 Farewell to Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Farewell to Nova Scotia" brings the listener back to an age when Nova Scotia was renowned for "wooden ships and iron men".
In modern times, the song has echoed the massive migrations from Nova Scotia (and elsewhere from the Maritimes) westward to Ontario and Alberta.
Both the tune and lyrics are public domain, and therefore many different Nova Scotian artists have released their own recordings of "Farewell to Nova Scotia", including Anne Murray and the late Stan Rogers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farewell_to_Nova_Scotia   (244 words)

  
 Yay for Nova Scotia
Nova scotia has a rich planting area known as the Annapolis valley, thick forests of evergreens, and even highlands in Cape Breton which is abundent in wildlife and happens to be one of the largest nature preserves in Canada.
Nova Scotia is also home of Alexander Keith's beer, which on it's own makes Nova Scotia cool.
Nova Scotia was also crucial during world war l, at Vimy Ridge in particular.
ca.geocities.com /keith_brannen/novascotia.html   (540 words)

  
 Nova Scotia History Books.
Immigration To And Emigration From Nova Scotia: 1815-1838
In 1739 he was to become governor of Nova Scotia and continued in that capacity until 1749.
." Hannay thought Murdoch's "history of Nova Scotia is a wonderful monument of industry and research..." Called to the bar in 1822, Murdoch was elected to the legislature in 1826 (defeated in 1830.) In his later years he spent most of his time on literature.
www.blupete.com /Library/History/NovaScotia/M.htm   (1814 words)

  
 Farewell To Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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?
Nova Scotia is particularly rich in folklore, so it's not surprising that some of our best-known folk songs come from that part of the country.
In the 1930's Helen Creighton, a Nova Scotian herself and a leading authority on Maritime folklore and folk music, collected this melancholy song of a sailor torn from his family and his native shores by the call of war.
www.alansim.com /canhtml/can019.html   (115 words)

  
 Farewell - Farewell Address of Washington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In his farewell address, he looks back at some missteps in the development of.
Farewell Redemption is a new style of alternative rock music with an electric and acoustic vibe.
Farewell Spit Nature Tours New Zealand explore the northernmost point of the South Island, Nelson Bays, Marlborough and Farewellspit lighthouses.
linkfollow.com /lkfl/farewell.html   (380 words)

  
 'Farewell to Nova Scotia'
A sailor's lament sometimes identified as 'Nova Scotia Song'.
Jack Sirulnikoff used it in his Nova Scotia Fantasy for band.
Helen Creighton collected the song in the 1930s from a half-dozen singers in the Petpeswick and Chezzetcook districts, some 40 km east of Halifax; they told her it formerly was sung in the schools.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001170   (132 words)

  
 Premier drowned out at mass N.S. health care rally
The Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU/NUPGE) asked half of its health care members to walk off the job in defiance of the bill to either attend the rally or show their solidarity in other ways.
The premier and Jamie Muir, his health minister, emerged at one point to address the angry demonstrators, but they were cut off by Rick Clarke, president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour.
Meanwhile, NSGEU is already planning another "Farewell to Nova Scotia" march and candlelight vigil Thursday to symbolize health care staff who are giving up and leaving the province.
www.nupge.ca /news_2001/news_jn01/n20jn01a.htm   (476 words)

  
 Travel Trade - Grand Nova Scotia Tour
End your day in Sydney, Nova Scotia’s second-largest city, which provides an extensive array of services and amenities for visitors.  A focal point of the city is an extensive boardwalk with colonial lighting which winds along 3 km of harbourfront and in the summer months, is a popular centre of activities and entertainment
At the Canso Causeway, travel back to the mainland of Nova Scotia to Antigonish and inland to Sherbrooke.  Spend the afternoon at Sherbrooke Village Museum, the former picturesque lumbering and shipbuilding community which looks as it did 100 years ago, before gold mining transformed it into a boom town.
Visit Cape Chignecto, site of Nova Scotia’s largest provincial park with a hiking trail which circumnavigates the cape along rugged cliffs rising high above the Bay of Fundy and stop in Joggins, where the Joggins Fossil Cliffs are renowned for extensive deposits of 300-million-year-old fossils.  The Joggins Fossil Centre displays an extensive collection.
novascotia.com /traveltrade/en/home/touritineraries/grandns.aspx   (961 words)

  
 Nova Scotia Ground Search And Rescue Association - News
If you are a member of a GSAR Team in Nova Scotia, you should have access to the Member's Only Site.
The GSAR Teams in Nova Scotia are the only members.
Any requests for access to the Members Only part of the WEB Site from inside Nova Scotia by persons or agencies other than searchers, police and EMO should be referred to the NSGSARA Executive.
www.nsgsara.pchg.net /news.htm   (2487 words)

  
 Annis Family Mariners
Francis Newton Annis was born July 18, 1842 at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Francis Newton and Sarah (Harrington) Annis.
After receiving a common school education at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Francis began his career as a mariner with his first voyage at the age seventeen.
It was not long after this that he became a Master Mariner and sailed vessels ported in Liverpool and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Boston, Massachusetts.
www.angelfire.com /mi/annisall/mariners.html   (1907 words)

  
 Lyr Req: Farewell to Nova Scotia
Farewell to Nova Scotia-when was it collected (10)
The Nova Scotia Song, or Farewell to Nova Scotia took a while to become popular in Canada.
I remember an interview on the CBC a long time ago in which Creighton was quoted as saying that her first collection was the first verse and chorus only (She first collected it in the 1930s, see comments by Seto in the link).
www.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=12170   (4603 words)

  
 Sleeping Around
I’ve dreamed of visiting Nova Scotia since I was just a child listening to my aunt’s voice crooning “Farewell to Nova Scotia, the seabound coast.” Her love of the province, where she was living at the time, made a big impression on a little girl.
Thursday: I arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia’s capital city at 8:30 pm.
Guysborough, my next stop on the south shore of Nova Scotia, wasn’t your average fishing village, but a beautiful town spread out over the hills.
www.travellady.com /Issues/August05/1761SleepingAround.htm   (998 words)

  
 FAREWELL TO NOVA SCOTIA Lyrics - by TOMMY MAKEM : Lyrics And Songs
You are viewing lyrics of FAREWELL TO NOVA SCOTIA by TOMMY MAKEM from the album UNKNOWN at LyricsAndSongs.COM
The Lyrics above are to FAREWELL TO NOVA SCOTIA and are (Mostly correct, Yet...
The Lyrics seem to be the lyrics to FAREWELL TO NOVA SCOTIA But they are (Wrong)
www.lyricsandsongs.com /song/145266.html   (393 words)

  
 CBC News - Battle lines drawn in Nova Scotia health dispute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Nova Scotians got a taste on Monday of what a full-scale health care strike might feel like.
Three thousand nurses, lab technicians and support staff say they made the move to get the government to make a key concession: withdraw legislation that takes away the right to strike, and gives cabinet the right to impose terms of a contract.
After a few hours, the Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board issued orders telling the employees to go back to work.
cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/06/26/nsstrike010626   (480 words)

  
 Farewell to Ansteorra Music - Farewell to Nova Scotia Words - Alaric ap Morgan Chorus - Fa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Farewell to Ansteorra Music - Farewell to Nova Scotia Words - Alaric ap Morgan Chorus - Fa Farewell to Ansteorra Music - Farewell to Nova Scotia Words - Alaric ap Morgan Chorus - Fa Farewell to Ansteorra Music - Farewell to Nova Scotia Words - Alaric ap Morgan Chorus --------------------------------------------------
So, farewell lads and farewell lasses Now I think I've got my chance I'll away to yonder island Where I think I hear your voice.
She stole my heart, could I refuse, What e'er she asked of me? CHORUS Hard fate that I should banished be, Gang heavily with morn, Because I loved the dearest lass, That ever yet was born.
www.skepticfiles.org /en003/bards-01.htm   (16577 words)

  
 The Beaton family in Nova Scotia and Scotland
Mabou is a small town on the West Coast of the Cape Breton district of Nova Scotia.
It gives general background on the Beatons in Scotland as well as the whole migration of the Scottish Highlanders to P, E. and Nova Scotia.
Before listing the Genealogies and Beaton background, I should note that A. MacDonald was apparently the Catholic parish priest in Mabou from 1842 to 1865 and that he wrote the book during that time or shortly thereafter.
mywebpages.comcast.net /hconnors/Beaton/BeatonFamily.html   (1012 words)

  
 Nova Scotia question...
Howard decided that he would learn the song Farewell to Nova Scotia backwards and sing it at a gathering people were having to say goodbye to her.
Their recording was taken for the theme song of a TV documentary about Nova Scotia many years ago.
My working hypothesis is that the word 'Nova' is the culprit, but I have not the slightest idea why this should be so.
www.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=10324   (3390 words)

  
 Tomfolio.com: History: Canada and No. America, Nova Scotia
Historical fiction depicting the founding of Chignecto country in Nova Scotia, Canada, by the people of Yorkshire in 1772.
"There are times when Nova Scotia is not so much a land or a part of a country as an exhausting state of war between water and earth." NS 0130.
"The story of a man's youth in Nova Scotia and how its influence reflected on his later life." He was Professor of Religious Education at the Theological School of St. Lawrence University from 1928 - 1960.
www.tomfolio.com /bookssub.asp?catid=93&subid=2505   (1265 words)

  
 Nova Scotia Real Estate - A Web Log
WINDSOR — The former Nova Scotia Textiles plant is about to become the site of a major business development that will revitalize the 125-year-old structure and bring new businesses and condominiums to the area.
Nova Scotia's a no-go from Boston, at least for this year.
Several months of negotiations to bring the Scotia Prince ferry to Boston for trips to Nova Scotia ended this week, with the ship's owners rejecting a proposal from a Boston investor group, Shores Atlantic LLC.
tradewindsrealty.com /nsblog/B755003278   (3985 words)

  
 Government of Nova Scotia - News Archive
Dan McKinnon, a Nova Scotia-born singer, songwriter and Halifax performer, has written 11 songs based on historical themes presented in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, part of the Nova Scotia Museum.
Education and Culture Minister Robbie Harrison said each of the 25 museum sites within the Nova Scotia Museum continually looks for new ways to bring more visitors through their doors.
This page and all contents are copyright © 2006, Province of Nova Scotia, all rights reserved.
www.gov.ns.ca /cmns/msrv/viewRel.asp?relID=/cmns/msrv/nr-1997/nr97-07/97072902.htm   (360 words)

  
 Zanshin: Year End 1999 - Farewell to Nova Scotia
Randall MacLean and his wife, Natalie, were so kind to open up their home for a fond farewell gathering for San Fung and Marc Waterfield in May of this year.
If not for their moves, this past June would have been their sixth Canadian National Black Belt Championships on the Nova Scotia team.
Is that you will be missed by your friends in Nova Scotia, especially those at the AKC
www.chebucto.ns.ca /Sportfit/AKC/Zanshin/V02I02/art02.html   (856 words)

  
 CONCERTINA.net - The Tune-O-Tron: Edit Record
X:1 T:Farewell to Nova Scotia R:march S:Touchstone - The New Land (1982) M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 K:F P:Verse z2 DE
W: W: W:The drums are beating, the horns do alarm W:The captain calls and we must obey W:So farewell, farewell, to Nova Scotia's charms W:For it's early in the morning I am far, far away W: W: Farewell to Nova Scotia...
W: W: W:I have three brothers and they're at rest W:Their arms are folded upon their breast W:But a poor simple sailor just like me W:Must be tossed and driven on the dark blue sea W: W: Farewell to Nova Scotia...
www.concertina.net /tunes_detail_edit.html?action=edit&rec_id=797   (244 words)

  
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Farvel Nova Scotia (Adieu to Nova Scotia) er kan hende den best kjente av alle sangene fra denne delen av verden.
Her finner du den i et arrangement for solo gitar.
Farewell to Nova Scotia is probably the best known of all Nova Scotia songs.
www.mamut.com /homepages/Norway/3/9/stoyvaguitarpoems/subdet288.htm   (136 words)

  
 More on The Global Country of World Peace - George and Piscatqui lslands
The inauguration of the so-called Global Parliament of World Peace is taking place even as you read this, off the coast of Nova Scotia in the Maritimes.
The town of Port Hastings, Cape Breton, overlooking the famed Canso Causeway, a 2-½ hour drive from Halifax is home to scenic Skye Lodge, where autumn has painted the foliage.
"The Maharishi Island of World Peace" is situated on Nova Scotia's east coast near Skye Lodge.
www.tradewindsrealty.com /nsblog/B755003278/C6214138/E20051016082830   (561 words)

  
 The Cancer Survivors Network, supplying information, resources, chat, stories, discussion forums and support for cancer ...
If anyone else is interested in joining the fun at CP 4 it's not to late just let me know.
The dates are October 11th - 15th in beautiful Halifax Nova Scotia Canada.
For now, if you are an American citizen crossing the border into Canada, you need ID that proves two things: 1) Citizenship, and 2) Identity by way of a photo.
www.acscsn.org /Forum/Discussion/thread/view?msgid=114330&msgrid=3   (941 words)

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