Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Troops in war accoutrement from Halifax and Toronto arrived to guard the coalfields; but no move was made by them to check the rioters, whose activities spread to Sydney, the nearest large town. Women and children joined in the fray, numerous stores of the Corporation were completely emptied of their stocks, some were burned. Military reinforcement was expected...
...other lecturer is Archibald MacMechan, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of English literature at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the Summer School, he will give courses on Shakespeare, Carlyle, and Tennyson. Professor MacMechan, a writer of distinction, and one of the best teachers of English in Canada, received his Doctor's degree in this country at Johns Hopkins University...
Served as counsel for U. S. before the High Tribunal at Halifax to settle a controversy over the rights of Great Britain and the U. S. in Behring...
...predilection for the Law by another uncle, who apprenticed him to the banking profession. Three years' training, and he was accepted by the Bank of British North America, in its London establishment. Soon he crossed the Atlantic, continuing his study and practice of banking in Montreal, Manhattan, Halifax. The directors of the Bank of Nova Scotia, struck by his distinguished bearing and demeanor, engaged him as paying teller, and, aged 30, as branch in spector. They sent him to Minneapolis to open a new branch. There the Northwestern National Bank made him cashier and he in turn made...
Bluenose had won the first brush over the 26-mile Halifax course by 1 min. 20 sec. Believing that he had been deprived of the second race and the trophy unjustly, Captain Walters departed homeward, refusing to sail the final race. Fishermen of both countries are indignant...