Word: novas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business). Anti-Jap feeling was strong elsewhere, too. Alberta's Public Works Minister W. A. Fallow said that his Province wanted no postwar Japs. Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis said that he would take "necessary steps" to see that no Japs were relocated in his Province. Said Nova Scotia's Premier A. S. MacMillan: "We've got troubles enough...
Within a few hours fishermen and country folk, from the 40-mile stretch between Tancook Island and Herring Cove, flocked on foot or in dories, motor boats and schooners to the scene of one of the biggest salvage "takes" in Nova Scotia's wreck-strewn history...
...tanks built in Montreal. Chinese soldiers fought with Toronto-made Bren guns. The British Army rolled on trucks from Oshawa, Ontario. U.S. pilots flew in Curtiss Helldivers from Fort William. The wheat from the great prairies, the salmon from British Columbia's deep blue inlets and cod from Nova Scotia's offshore fisheries fed Britain...
...Frederic Henry Sexton, Nova Scotia's 65-year-old Director of Technical Education, reported that of 6,000-odd Nova Scotians now out of the services, fewer than 100 have shown interest in the Government's offer of technical training or general education. In all Canada-only 5,000 veterans were now at school, despite the fact that the average Canadian serviceman never got beyond the sixth grade...
Fishermen's Last Supper, Second Version, painted after the drowning of two young Nova Scotia fishermen with whose family Hartley lived one summer. At table, five of the family face three empty chairs. Two chairs are decorated with flowers; the third was Hartley's-"I couldn't paint myself...