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The Halifax Resolves was a name later given to the resolution adopted by the North Carolina Provincial Congress on April 12, 1776. The adoption of the resolution was the first official action in the American Colonies calling for independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution .
Rockwood was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, on March 23, 1917, the son of Mark and Violet (née Baker) Rockwood. [2] He recounted in his autobiography, Triumph in God: The Life Story of Radio Pastor Perry F. Rockwood, that he was one of six children in a family beset by illness and financial difficulties.
He was two years old when he was blinded by the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917. [1] At the time of his death in 2009, Davidson was the penultimate living survivor with permanent injuries from the Halifax Explosion, [2] which killed more than 1,600 people. [1] Davidson was born to parents Georgina (née Williams) and John William Davidson.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he was the only son of Leverett Morris and Catherine Larsen. [1] He attended school at Saint Mary's Boys School. After graduating high school, he pursued an undergraduate and graduate degree in political science from Dalhousie University.
Jane Hurshman Corkum (January 25, 1949 – February 22, 1992) was a Canadian woman best known for having killed her abusive husband Lamont William "Billy" Stafford in 1982, [1] and for being acquitted of his murder.
Joseph Howe PC (December 13, 1804 – June 1, 1873) was a Nova Scotian journalist, politician, public servant, and poet.Howe is often ranked as one of Nova Scotia's most admired politicians and his considerable skills as a journalist and writer have made him a provincial legend.
Alex John Walling (1946 – November 25, 2023), also known as A.J. Walling, was a Canadian sports analyst and broadcaster.Well known for his distinctive voice and opinionated commentary, he was the Atlantic Canadian sports reporter for TSN, a position he held for nine years.
Flemming was a well-known journalistic political commentator, for years with the former Halifax Daily News and on television for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on CBHT's supper hour news show First Edition (with Parker Barss Donham) between 1986 and 1995. Flemming died on February 16, 2008, of complications from cancer and pneumonia.
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