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...bleak Nichol Island, off Nova Scotia's east coast, a lone white house stands above the rocky shoreline. One day last fortnight Lightkeeper James Richard Hutt, 33, picked up his shotgun, set off down the shore to add some ducks and rabbits to the family larder. By dusk he had not returned. His slight, dark-haired wife, Pauline, climbed the steep steps of the lighthouse tower, and lit the twin wicks herself...
...Sydney, Nova Scotia, which comes closer to being Canada's Pittsburgh than any other Dominion city, newsmen asked a unionist to explain Canada's labor peace. George Regunnis McNeil, president of a 5,000-man steelworkers union, answered: "The whole thing in a nutshell is that American labor was organized on a national scale to a point where it could strike for what it wanted. ... In Canada strikes pop up here & there, but there is no national cooperation...
...they do every autumn, the hardy fishermen of little West Pubnico last week climbed into their boats and chugged away to the Bay of Fundy to reap a harvest of scallops. Behind them, on a mile-wide neck of land in the quiet Acadian country of Nova Scotia, they left one of the most remarkable villages in North America...
...Party's third straight setback since it swept Saskatchewan a year and a half ago.* Within a matter of days, it would have two more chances-in Nova Scotia (prospects: dim) Oct. 23, in British Columbia (prospects: fair) Oct. 25. If it failed again, it would surely be time for Canada's socialists to stand off and take a long, severe look at themselves...
C.I.S.'s boss, said the announcement, will be young (39), smart, Nova Scotia-born Geoffrey C. Andrew, W.I.B.'s secretary. Son of an Anglican clergyman, he played ice hockey at Oxford, then taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto. His job: to distribute abroad ''information concerning Canada [because] those with whom we trade must know our . . . possibilities...