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...little shipyards that line the coast of Nova Scotia, builders are busier than they have been since the days of wooden ships and iron men. Now, as 70 years ago, saws screech through oaken timbers and pine planking; middle-aged craftsmen, wielding adzes, cut keels so that they look as though they had been planed. U.S. yachtsmen and game fishermen set off the boom. They had discovered that Nova Scotians could still build stout, trim sailing craft, besides modern power boats-and build them cheap...
Class of 23. The tradition of the late, famed schooner Bluenose* is perpetuated in a class of pleasure craft designed by William J. Roue and now being built in four Nova Scotia yards. The baby Bluenoses, sloop-rigged, are only 23 ft. overall and retail for about $1,250 in Canada, or $1,500 in the U.S. Bluenose owners have already started an international association to freeze the design of the class, regulate racing and keep alive the name of the original Bluenose...
...Meteghan, Atlantic Shipyards (builders of wooden ships for two centuries) has plans for turning out small steel freighters, has already converted a wartime corvette into a freighter and passenger carrier. The biggest order to date: three 3,100-ton transports for the Argentine Navy. Never in peacetime have Nova Scotia's yards had it so good...
...treetops. On land, hundreds of begrimed and weary men fought the fire. In its first six days, the fire (one of more than 50 burning in Canada last week) blackened more than 20 square miles of forest. It was already one of the worst forest fires in Nova Scotia's history. At week's end, veteran rangers despondently thought that only a 48-hour downpour would stop...
...gathered to celebrate their heritage. In a small clearing along the National Park's Cabot Trail, a reproduction of a shieling-a rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...