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...plenipotentiaries sat down at Utrecht in 1713 to write an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War to American colonists) they despoiled France's Louis XIV of his important eastern Canada holdings except Cape Breton Island off the east end of Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell...
Halifax, on Nova Scotia's southeast coast, was the departure point for convoys in World War I, was leveled on the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, when the French freighter Mont Blanc, loaded with T.N.T., blew up after a collision with the Belgian relief ship Imo. Today Halifax's fine harbor is Britian's convoy point once again, reputedly has been made into a good naval base as well. From its seaplane and land air bases, Canuck pilots fly out to sea on convoy escort and submarine patrol. Nova Scotia is heavily wooded, is connected with...
Born 52 years ago in Nova Scotia, Jim Williams was taken as a baby to Detroit, where he grew up, spent one year half-heartedly studying art at Mount Union College. At 15, big and husky as a man, he quit school to roam the Southwest as ranch hand, camp cook, mule skinner, tattoo artist. He was a crack rider with the 15th Cavalry at Fort Sill, Okla. Mustered out, he married, smashed baggage at Chicago's old Northwestern railroad station, got a broken nose as a professional prize fighter, finally settled down as a machinist's assistant...
Anyone so desiring may stay after the movies and inspect photographs taken last summer on a cruise to Nova Scotia, and discuss trips taken last year as well as those projected for this summer...
...LL.B. '40, Harvard; George H. Schuller, New Haven, Conn., J. D., '32, University of Vienna, candidate for LL.B. '40, Yale; Benjamin Carlin, Grove Hall, Mass., candidate for LL.B. '40, Wake Forest Law School; Henry H. Foster Jr., Lincoln, Nebr., LL.B. '36, University of Nebraska; Robert G Murray, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, candidate for LL.B. '40, Dalhousie; William T. Muse, Richmond, Va., LL.B., '30, University of Richmond, S.J.D., '34, Harvard; and James A. Washington Jr., of Washington, D. C., LL.B., '39, Heward University, Washington...