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Prince Edward Island 000 Years Ago
1,317 wordsPrince Edward Island lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and is separated from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by the Strait of Northumberland. It once was connected to the mainland. I chose to do this province because I love lobster and the land is really beautiful. About 11, 000 years ago the early people known as the Paleo-Indians lived on what is now Prince Edward Island. They gathered berries in the islands forests and hunted seals and walrus with spears along the coast. They also tracked caribo...
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Nova Scotia North America
389 wordsFor hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, the native Mi " klaus hunted and fished the bountiful lands and waters of present-day Nova Scotia. Soon after John Cabot's exploration of North America in 1497, European fishermen sailed to the shores of the new land, eager to take advantage of the seemingly endless cod stocks. In 1605, the French established the first permanent European settlement in what is now Canada. They named their small settlement Port Royal, and named the vast lands surrounding i...
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Nova Scotia Prohibition Movement
1,548 wordsCanadian Temperance groups began to rally for prohibition during the 1840 's and 1850 's. It was not until after World War I began in 1914, that the temperance groups's upper for prohibition grew. A need for grain for the armed forces was viewed as a major catalyst for Canada's Prohibition Law. Although Canada's Prohibition Era only lasted two years from 1917 to 1919, it created the stage for many historic successes and failures in Canada. This paper looks at the emergence, successes, and failur...
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Nova Scotia Prohibition Movement
1,671 words... n question. Several interesting points do emerge from this plebiscite of those who did vote. The Maritimes and Manitoba emerged as strongly in favor of prohibition, whereas Western Canada was moderate and Quebec vehemently opposed. (23) 'Wet or Dry' voting patterns seemed very strongly influenced by ethnic origins with cities voting wet and rural areas voting dry. (24) Prohibition was once again thrust into the arms of the provinces. Several small bills were introduced in the years 1900 to 1...
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The French And Indian War
1,598 wordsThe French and Indian Wars were the last conflicts between the French and the English for control over New England. They were a series of four wars including the King Williams War, The Queen Annes War, The King Georges War, and the Seven-Year War all fought between the years of 1689 to 1763. These Wars took place in Europe and America between the British and the French. None of the wars were directly fought between the French and the Indians. They were actually between the French and the English...
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Underground Railroad Nova Scotia
1,166 words... ed all their songs by ear, they often strayed into wholly new versions, which sometimes became popular, and entirely banished the others. The second way writing a spiritual is to combine a variety of other hymns and spirituals to make a completely different song. The Staple Singers do exactly this in the song This Train. (found on tape. ) This train is bound for glory, this train. This train is bound for glory, this train. None goin to ride it but the rights and the holy. This Train bound fo...
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Nova Scotia Fossil Fuel
433 wordsTidal electricity is a cheap way of producing electricity. Tidal electric's tidal generator combines hydroelectric power generation with the conventional maritime water-impoundment techniques and configures a system of delivering large amounts of electrical power. Potential sites are vast ocean areas with large tidal ranges. Tidal electricity is a clean method of producing electricity, unlike that of nuclear plants and fossil fuel plants, which gives off toxic smoke and producing acid rain. Ther...
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Nova Scotia Stamp Act
1,260 wordsThe population of Boston in 1765 was over twenty thousand people, and it was the second largest city in the country. The city was split up into two political factions, the loyalists, also known as the "Tories" were loyal to the British nation and respected and followed their policies. The other group was the Patriots, they too pledged alliance with the British, but they also believed strongly in their colonial rights, and more often then not went against parliamentary decisions. America still ha...
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Nova Scotia Cruise Ships
1,073 wordsOf the North American growth, a large percentage has been from the growth in Nova Scotia, especially Halifax. One of the main reasons why Halifax has seen so many more cruise ships is because the port of Halifax is an ideal port of call for cruise ships. Halifax's convenient location on the Great Circle Route between Europe and North America provides easy access to cruise ships whether the cruises are on North American East Coast routing's or transatlantic routes. Halifax harbor also has a deep ...
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Nova Scotia Cruise Ships
2,258 wordsCruise Ship Industry Before we proceed to our discussion of cruise ship industry I believe we should first submerge in the notion of tourism in order to see the very model of peoples motivation, which makes them join cruises. Mac Cannell, in The Tourist (1999), portrayed the tourist as being on a pilgrimage, a search for authenticity. To define "authentic, " Mac Cannell drew upon the distinction made by the sociologist Erving Goffman between the "front" and "back" regions of social establishment...
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Hours A Week Billion A Year
1,247 wordsValuing Housework Key to Ending Child Poverty, Study Finds Press Release, 5 November 1998 2000 GPI Atlantic Measuring Sustainable Development Measuring the value of unpaid housework and child care is key to meeting the Canadian Parliament's goal of ending child poverty in Canada by the year 2000, according to a new study by GPI Atlantic. [GPI: Genuine Progress Indicator] Despite the fact that non-employed single mothers put in an average 50 hours a week of productive household work, most live in...
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Jorge Luis Nova Scotia
2,776 wordsColumbia is South America fourth largest country. It is about 440, 831 square miles long and its capital is Bogota with the population of 27 million people. Columbia greatest agriculture crops are drugs and coffee. Columbia is one of the world largest producers of the drugs cocaine, and heroin producing 50, 900 hectares of coca that they sold 75 % to the United States. (CIA database) Drug dealers and drugs control Columbia and are the new Mafia and gangsters, who smuggle drugs in the United Stat...
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Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia
3,194 wordsCanadian Temperance groups began to rally for prohibition during the 1840 s and 1850 s. It was not until after World War I began in 1914, that the temperance groups support for prohibition grew. A need for grain for the armed forces was viewed as a major catalyst for Canadas Prohibition Law. Although Canadas Prohibition Era only lasted two years from 1917 to 1919, it created the stage for many historic successes and failures in Canada. This paper looks at the emergence, successes, and failures o...
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Stop For Death Nova Scotia
818 wordsDeath is a common theme in many poems. It is viewed so differently to everyone. In the poems, Because I could not stop for Death, First Death in Nova Scotia, and War is kind death is presented by each narrator as something different. To one it is a kind gentle stranger while to another it is a cold cruel being. A kind gentleman stranger personifies death in, Because I could not stop for Death. The narrator of the poem is a busy person, with little time, and definitely no time to die. Her carriag...
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Nova Scotia North America
388 wordsFor Historic Culture Historic Culture For hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, the native Mikmaqs hunted and fished the bountiful lands and waters of present-day Nova Scotia. Soon after John Cabot's exploration of North America in 1497, European fishermen sailed to the shores of the new land, eager to take advantage of the seemingly endless cod stocks. In 1605, the French established the first permanent European settlement in what is now Canada. They named their small settlement Port Royal, and...
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Negro Women South Carolina
481 wordsMary McLeod Bethune Mary McLeod Bethune was born, on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth out of seventeen children, but the most successful. Her parents were slaves and they considered education to be very important. She entered the local Presbyterian Mission School for Negroes. With the help of scholarships, part-time jobs, and familial sacrifice she was able to attend, from 1888 to 1894, Scotia Seminary (now Barber-Scotia College) in Concord, North Carolina. Asp...
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Violence Against Women Men And Women
2,571 wordsWith the emergence of the Womens Movement, a deep cleavage was created in gender relations, seemingly pitting women against men in the struggle for equality and status. An effect of this separation in spheres, was a collective of men feeling as if they were being misrepresented, or left behind during a revolutionary period of changing gender relations. A product of this was the conception of mens groups around the world. This paper attempts to look at the development of the mens movement in Cana...
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Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia
3,231 wordsRise and Fall of Prohibition in Canada Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in are and open encounter. - Areopagitica Canadian Temperance groups began to rally for prohibition during the 1840 s and 1850 s. It was not until after World War I began in 1914, that the temperance groups support for pr...
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Free Trade Agreement Speaking Canadians
3,248 wordsPrint Robert Borden I. Introduction Print section Borden, Sir Robert Laird (1854 - 1937), eighth prime minister of Canada (1911 - 1920). Borden led the Canadian government during the critical years of World War I (1914 - 1918), when Canada was coming to political and economic maturity. His broad vision and sound judgment made him an effective leader in these difficult years. He was often opposed within his own party, but his fairness and his ability to grasp the facts of an issue kept him at the...
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Start A Business Nova Scotia
2,183 wordsMore Starting A Business Introduction More and more people are beginning to open their minds to new business ventures. It seems like it is becoming the popular move. By opening a business there could be huge profit to be made, depending on the market. On the other hand, there are risks and losses that may occur as well. It is said that there are two reasons why people start a business. The first reason is because they have inspiration for what they believe would be a great idea and the second is...
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