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It includes the land mass of eastern Canada comprising the entirety of Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the eastern half of Quebec, and the southern half of Baffin Island. This area measures 4.7 million km 2 of which approximately 80% is water.
Pony express systems, however, continued to be developed when and where telegraph lines did not exist, though the systems would always dissolve once telegraph lines went into service. Thus, in 1846, during the Mexican–American War , the Baltimore Sun and Philadelphia Public Ledger established a sixty-pony express route to New Orleans .
2020 Nova Scotia attacks: Mass shooting, arson Nova Scotia: Eastern Canada 23 3 [43] 2020 May 17 Canadian Forces Snowbirds jet crash: Aircrash Kamloops, British Columbia West Coast 1 1 1 injured, 1 casualty (Capt. Jenn Casey from Nova Scotia) [44] 2021 June 15–2021 August 16 2021 British Columbia wildfires: Wildfires Interior British Columbia ...
Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia: 118 1949 SS Noronic: Shipwreck Toronto, Ontario 118 1963 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831: Plane crash: Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec 115 1828 HMS Acorn: Shipwreck Halifax, Nova Scotia 114 1942 HMS Crusader (H60) Shipwreck Sank east of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador: 114 1761 Auguste (1758 ship) Shipwreck Sank in ...
Relief efforts began almost immediately, and hospitals quickly became full. Rescue trains began arriving the day of the explosion from across Nova Scotia and New Brunswick while other trains from central Canada and the Northeastern United States were impeded by blizzards. Construction of temporary shelters to house the many people left homeless ...
That month, the Government of Canada announced a full-scale, CA$2.5-million inquiry into the tainted-blood crisis. [ 1 ] [ 11 ] Order in Council PC 1993-1879 was issued on 4 October 1993, and the Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada was issued on October 27, appointing Justice Horace Krever as chair.
A thermal generating station, Lingan was opened by then-provincial Crown corporation Nova Scotia Power Corporation on November 1, 1979 at the height of the 1970s oil crisis. It was designed to burn bituminous coal mined by the Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO) at the nearby Lingan Colliery and the adjacent Phalen Colliery as a means ...
Nova Scotia Premier Rankin saying that the bubble was "clearly not going to happen". [ 4 ] On May 27, 2021, PEI announced reopening plans for the province and the plan stated that on June 27, 2021, Atlantic Canadians with one dose of the vaccine would be allowed travel freely without a need for a 14-day isolation.