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Trafalgar is a Canadian rural community located inland from Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. While it is named after the Battle of Trafalgar , it is not pronounced the same as Trafalgar England. Emphasis is on the first syllable traf'-el-GAR.
Named after Cape Trafalgar where Horatio Nelson led the English fleet to victory over the Spanish and French at the Battle of Trafalgar, the township was created in 1806. [3] Trafalgar was one of three townships surveyed by Samuel Street Wilmot after the purchase of land from the Mississaugas in 1805. [4]
Canada House is the home of the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom.It hosts consular facilities for Canadians to renew passports or apply for emergency assistance, visa and immigration processing services, a military liaison office, trade officers, political officers and a public affairs section.
The Trafalgar Companion: A Guide to History's Most Famous Sea Battle and the Life of Admiral Lord Nelson. London: Aurum Press. ISBN 1-84513-018-9. "The Battle of Trafalgar". Broadside. 2012. Archived from the original on 27 April 2007. Clash of Steel (2007). "Order of Battle: The British Fleet". Archived from the original on 27 October 2007.
First site designated Example site and designation date Alberta sites: 61 1923 Frog Lake (1923) British Columbia sites: 100 1923 Rogers Pass (1971) Manitoba sites: 58 1920 Exchange District (1996) New Brunswick sites: 63 1920 Hartland Covered Bridge (1980) Newfoundland and Labrador sites: 47 1951 Signal Hill (1951) Nova Scotia sites: 90 1920 ...
The gate is in the same style as those of Buckingham Palace and bears the coats of arms of six of the seven Canadian provinces of the time (left to right: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island), while in the centre of the gate is the original coat of arms of Canada of 1868.
Whitby is also the site of Trafalgar Castle School, a private girls' school founded in 1874. The building, constructed as an Elizabethan-style castle in 1859–62 as a private residence for the Sheriff of Ontario County, is a significant architectural landmark and Whitby's only provincial historic site marked with a plaque.
Qajartalik is a petroglyph site of the Dorset culture. The Dorset people inhabited the Canadian Arctic until about 1000 CE and they disappeared before the arrival of the Thule Inuit. The site contains about 180 carvings that depict human and zoomorphic faces. [37] Sirmilik National Park and Tallurutiup Imanga (proposed) National Marine ...