Kentville, Nova Scotia - Kentville, Nova Scotia Kentville (2001 population 5,610) is the largest town in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Together with outlying towns such as New Minas and Wolfville, over 30,000 people live in the area. Kentville is one of the main towns in the Annapolis Valley. The area was first settled by Acadians, but after they were expelled from the area in 1755, British people started inhabiting the area. Settlement was expedited by the United Empire Loyalists during the American Revolution. It was originally known as Horton's Corner, but was named Kentville in 1826 after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (brother of King George III), who visited the area in 1794. Agriculture, especially growing apples, is the dominant industry in the area. Also, the Michelin tire company now.
Kings County, Nova Scotia - Kings County, Nova Scotia Kings County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Formed in August 17th, 1759 the county's northern and eastern boundaries are determined by the Bay of Fundy and Minas Basin, and its western and southern boundaries are the counties of Annapolis, Lunenburg, and Hants..
Kingsburg, Nova Scotia - Kingsburg, Nova Scotia Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, is a small community on the south shore that is now mainly a vacation area. The town is located at the end of Kingsburg peninsula by the towns of Rose Bay and Riverport. The closest major centre is Bridgewater. It also is not very far from Lunenburg. Kingsburg is located between two beaches: the popular Hirtle's Beach and the lovely, but usually deserted Kingsburg Beach. There are also two uninhabited capes which have hiking trails. Like all of Nova Scotia, the ocean is usually too cold to swim in, but Kingsburg has two large lakes and a number of smaller freshwater ponds that are popular swimming locations. The town was settled by German settlers, some of the Foreign Protestants, who moved.
Victoria County, Nova Scotia - Victoria County, Nova Scotia Victoria County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Named after the Queen Victoria, it was established by statute in 1851. Cape Breton County was divided into two counties in that year, with Victoria County being cut off from it..
Inverness County, Nova Scotia - Inverness County, Nova Scotia Inverness County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Established as the County of Juste au Corps in 1835, Inverness County was given its present name in 1837. It was called Inverness after Inverness in Scotland, the land from which many of the early settlers came. The boundaries of Inverness County had been previously defined when Cape Breton Island was divided by statute into three Districts in 1823. Inverness County was established within the boundaries of the Northwestern District of Cape Breton Island..
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax is a Canadian city, the provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia, and the economic centre of the Atlantic Provinces. As of 1991 the city contained 114,455 inhabitants, and in the late 1990s, all of Halifax County was amalgamated into the "Halifax Regional Municipality" or HRM, including neighbouring Dartmouth and Sable Island, 180km offshore. The population of HRM exceeds 350,000. People from Halifax are called Haligonians. Halifax was founded on July 9, 1749 as a military outpost for the British with a handful of farming settlers. It has the second-largest natural harbour in the world, which is also well protected and ideal for a military base, Citadel Hill. When the Titanic sank in 1912, the search effort was coordinated in Halifax and.
Hants County, Nova Scotia - Hants County, Nova Scotia Hants County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is the smallest county in Canada. The county of Hants was created June 17, 1781, and consisted of the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. Originally getting its name from the County of Southamptonshire in England, now known as Hampshire, and abbreviated to Hants, the County was established out of part of what had been Kings County. The words of the minutes of the Council of Nova Scotia for June 17, 1781 make it clear that the distance from Horton (the County town of Kings County) and the inconvenience of crossing the Avon River to transact county business were factors which led to a separate county being formed. Four and a.
Halifax County, Nova Scotia - Halifax County, Nova Scotia Halifax County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Deriving its name from George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716-1771) Halifax County was established by Order-in-Council on August 17, 1759. The boundaries of four other counties - Annapolis, Kings, Cumberland and Lunenburg - were specifically defined at that time, with Halifax County comprising all the part of peninsular Nova Scotia that was not within their limits. Following the Seven Years War, Cape Breton Island was formally annexed to Nova Scotia. For a time it formed part of Halifax County. The boundaries of Halifax County were modified in 1822. That part of St. Mary's Township (established in 1818) which had been in Halifax County was annexed to and included within Sydney.
Guysborough County, Nova Scotia - Guysborough County, Nova Scotia Guysborough County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Taking its name from the Township of Guysborough, which was named in honour of Sir Guy Carlton, Guysborough County was created when Sydney County (Antigonish County) was divided in 1836. In 1840, the Township of St. Mary's, in Guysborough County, was set off as a separate and distinct District. In 1863 the dividing line between Halifax and Guysborough Counties was altered and a polling district was added to Guysborough County..
Digby County, Nova Scotia - Digby County, Nova Scotia Digby County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Taking its name from the Township of Digby, which had been named in honour of Rear Admiral Robert Digby who dispatched the Atlanta to convey loyalists from New York City in the spring of 1783 to Conway, which became known as Digby, Digby County was established in 1837. Previously, from August 17, 1759, when Nova Scotia was first divided into counties, this area had been part of Annapolis County. Twenty-four years later, in 1861, Digby County was divided into two districts - the District of Digby and the District of Clare..
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Dartmouth is the smaller cross-harbour twin city to Nova Scotia's capital of Halifax, now joined in municipal amalgamation as HRM - Halifax Regional Municicpality..
2003 Nova Scotia election - 2003 Nova Scotia election The 2003 Nova Scotia election was held on August 5, 2003. It saw the ruling Conservatives reduced to a minority government. The elction was called by John Hamm's Conservatives who decided to hold a rare summer election in hopes of strengthening their hold on the legislature. Running against them were Darrell Dexter's NDP and Danny Graham's Liberal's. Hamm's party ran on a policy of fiscal management, tax cuts, and on there record of fufilling most of their promises. While the NDP agreed in principle to tax cuts their main cause was the creation of a public auto insurance company. The Liberal's were the only party to criticize the tax cuts. For the most part the campaign was quiet and uneventful. Hamm received criticism.
Kent (disambiguation) - Anglia Fort Kent, Maine The Kent Applicative Operating System, a computer operating system Kent Acres, Delaware Kent City, Michigan Kent Group National Park, in Tasmania, Australia Kent Narrows, Maryland The Kent Recursive Calculator, a programming language Kentville, Nova Scotia New Kent Road in London New Kent County, Virginia.
Kejimkujik National Park - main section of the park, located in the uplands of south-central Nova Scotia, and the seaside adjunct, located nearby on the Atlantic coast. The main section of the park is a forested upland plain that contains many lakes and rivers. These interior waterways were important canoe routes between the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic for the ancestors of the Mi'kmaq. The park also contains the petroglyphs that these people left behind. The seaside adjunct includes white sandy beaches and coastal wetland areas. The park includes habitat for the endangered Piping Plover and other coastal birds..
King's College - was originally named King's College. The University of King's College is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada has a campus named King's College. King's University College is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Kings County - name of several counties aorund the world: Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada Kings County, California, United States of America King's County, Ireland is the former name of County Offaly. Kings County, New York, United States of America (the county coterminous with the borough of Brooklyn in New York, New York) This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Jake LaMotta - the fight in 1948 with Billy Fox in exchange for a shot against world champion Cerdan. This fight haunted him ever since, and it is a subject he refuses to talk about in public to this day. After retirement, he bought a few bars and became a stage actor and stand up comedian. In 1980, Hollywood executives approached him with the idea of a movie about his life, which was filmed with Robert De Niro playing a young LaMotta, and then LaMotta himself towards the end of the movie. The movie depicted a violent and problematic LaMotta who once even went as far as beating his own brother, manager Joey LaMotta, accusing him and his wife (Vicky LaMotta, who once posed for Playboy magazine) of having an affair. Legend has it.
Yarmouth - England Yarmouth, Maine, United States Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
James Ralston - Canadian Minister of National Defence from 1940 to 1944. Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, in World War I Ralston commanded a batallion and was awarded for bravery. He was Minister of National Defence from 1926 to 1930, and was reappointed in that position in 1940 after serving as Minister of Finance from 1939 to 1940. He supported conscription during World War II, and in 1942 offered to resign when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's government would not introduce it. The resignation issue was dropped, but after visiting Canadian troops in Europe in 1944, he argued again that conscription was necessary, and a schism developed in King's cabinet (see Conscription Crisis of 1944). King still had Ralston's letter of resignation from 1942 and forced him to resign, replacing him with Andrew.
John Cabot - one vessel, the Matthew, a small ship (50 tons), but fast and able. The crew consisted of only 18 people. He departed on either 2 May or 20 May, 1497 (he had also made a voyage in 1496, but got no further than Iceland). He sailed to Dursey Head, Ireland, from where he sailed due west to Asia - or so he thought. He landed on the American east coast at 24 June, 1497. His precise landing-place is a matter of much controversy. He went ashore to take possession of the land, and explored the coast for some time, probably departing on 20 July. On the homeward voyage his sailors thought they were going too far north, so Cabot sailed a more southerly course, reaching Brittany instead of England. On 6.
