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Leon Isaiah Dubinsky (5 July 1941 – 17 January 2023) was a Canadian actor, theatre director and composer from Sydney, Nova Scotia. His career was mostly spent in Atlantic Canada, with film, theatre and music projects generally produced on Cape Breton Island. His biggest musical hit was Rise Again. He was honoured with a lifetime achievement ...
Amherst Internment Camp was an internment camp that existed from 1914 to 1919 in Amherst, Nova Scotia. It was the largest internment camp in Canada during World War I; a maximum of 853 prisoners were housed at one time at the old Malleable Iron foundry on the corner of Hickman and Park Streets. [1] The most famous prisoner at the camp was Leon ...
The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson. [1]The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans and African Nova Scotians or Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone ...
Nova Scotia [a] is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.It is one of the three Maritime provinces and most populous province in Atlantic Canada, with an estimated population of over 1 million as of 2024; it is also the second-most densely populated province in Canada, and second-smallest province by area. [11]
Anastasie le Blanc (1760–1794), Layperson of the Diocese of Quimper-Léon (Nova Scotia, Canada – Finistère, France) Michael Power (1804–1847), Bishop of Toronto (Nova Scotia – Ontario, Canada) Stephen Eckert (Stephen of Dublin) (1869–1923), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (Ontario, Canada – Wisconsin, United States)
Lev Davidovich Bronstein [b] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, [c] was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution , October Revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War , and establishment of the Soviet Union , from which he was ...
Leonard Warren Murray was born at Granton, Nova Scotia on 22 June 1896.His father, Simon Dickson Murray (1859–1936), was a mid-level manager in various enterprises, and managed the Acadia Coal Company's pier in Pictou Landing from 1903 to the early 1920s. [1]
In 1997, the Mi'kmaq-Nova Scotia-Canada Tripartite Forum was established. The Nova Scotia government and the Mi’kmaq community have made the Miꞌkmaw Kinaꞌmatnewey, which is a very successful First Nation Education Program in Canada. [110]: 226 [111] In 1982, the first Mi’kmaq operated school opened in Nova Scotia.