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The Valley Journal Advertiser is a weekly newspaper serving Annapolis, Kings and Hants counties in Nova Scotia.It was formed in 2016 by merging the formerly separate Hants Journal and Kings County Advertiser; [2] although the two publications produce a single merged print edition covering both counties, website content remains targeted to each county under the separate titles.
Sum Ying Fung (née Eng, Chinese: 吴如英, 27 January 1899 – 6 December 2011), was a Chinese Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Canada in 2011. Sum Ying Eng was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899. [36]
Windsor is a community located in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a service centre for the western part of the county and is situated on Highway 101 . The community has a history dating back to its use by the Mi'kmaq Nation for several millennia prior to European colonization.
A blockhouse was built at the site in the 1750s to protect Halifax from attacks by the Mi'kmaq people.The land was subsequently developed as small farms. In 1893, the land was acquired by a private company, the Fairview Lawn Cemetery Limited, for a non-denominational cemetery because the Camp Hill Cemetery in the centre of the city was running out of room.
Members of some prominent Windsor and Nova Scotian families are buried in the Old Parish Burying Ground including: Isaac DesChamps, the fourth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia (1785-1788), Winckworth Tonge, grandson of one of the original land grantees, and Susanna Francklin, wife of Lieutenant Governor Michael Francklin who donated the land for ...
NS Public Prosecution Service Judge Gregory E. Lenehan [9] Halifax October 19, 2010: NDP NS Public Prosecution Service (1989 to 2010) Judge Paul V. Scovil [10] Bridgewater: August 2, 2011: NDP NS Public Prosecution Service (1998 to 2011) Judge Timothy D. Landry [11] Digby/Yarmouth September 19, 2012: NDP NS Legal Aid Judge Michelle Christenson ...
Counties of Nova Scotia (1862) with township subdivisions. The Canadian province of Nova Scotia has a historical system of 18 counties that originally had appointed court systems for local administration before the establishment of elected local governments in 1879.
William Nesbitt (ca 1707 – March 23, 1784) was a lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia. He served as a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1758 to 1783. He came to Nova Scotia in 1749 as Edward Cornwallis' clerk. In 1752, he qualified as a notary public.