Word: novas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halifax one day last week, a tall, grey-eyed Scottish stranger called on Nova Scotia Premier A. Stirling MacMillan. The stranger announced that he was "glad to be home." He would, he said, like to buy part of Nova Scotia...
...idea was not so dizzy as it seemed. The Scot was William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 50, Colonel the Baron Sempill, and also possessor of a title many Nova Scotians had not known existed: Baronet of Nova Scotia. An ancestor, one Sir William Forbes, served King James I in England's 17th-Century civil wars, had been rewarded with the baronetcy and 16,000 acres in "New Scotland." When "New Scotland" was ceded to the French in 1632, Sir William lost the land but kept the title...
...Kentville, Nova Scotia (pop. 3,928) he gave Dorothy Stronach, hotel housekeeper, $20, told her: "Every time I meet you, a 20 is yours." He met her once more, shelled out another $20. Two maids who cleaned McLean's room got $50 apiece. An R.A.F. officer who bumped into McLean had $45 thrust upon him. Ruby Costello, 20-year-old bellhop, got $96 in tips. Total outlay in one day: $281. It left Kentville gasping. But it was really small-fry stuff for Harry McLean...
...Africa. What the business was, the astute East Block (Canadian equivalent of the U.S. State Department) did not say. But to handle it the Dominion last week assigned one of her ablest constitutional lawyers. He is shrewd, friendly Charles J. Burchell, who left a rich practice in his native Nova Scotia to enter Canada's diplomatic service in 1939. Until last week he was High Commissioner in war-important Newfoundland; before that, the first High Commissioner to Australia...
Gold fields that spread from ancient-Nova Scotia to the once fabulously rich deposits along the Yukon's Klondike have made Canada the second largest gold-producing nation in the world (first, by a long shot: the Union of South Africa). But gold has been neglected almost since war's start. Draft-riddled companies have seen employment dive about 40%, have watched production skid from 5,879,696 fine ounces ($205,789,392 at $35 an ounce) in 1941 to 3,649,671 fine ounces last year...