History of Nova Scotia
with special attention given to
Communications and Transportation

Chapter 82
2006 January onward


Index with links to the other chapters



2006 May 18

250th Anniversary

England Declares War on France
18 May 1756

The Seven Years War

On 18 May 1756, England formally declared war on France.  This war is known as the Seven Years War in Canada and Europe, but in the United States it is called the French and Indian War.  In 1756, France controlled far more territory in North America than England did — five years later this had changed forever, with England having taken all of France's territory on mainland North America.
Seven Years War Timeline
    http://ns1763.ca/remem/7yw-timeline-w.html

The Seven Years War, 1756-1763, was a worldwide war fought in Europe, North America, and India between France, Austria, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and Spain on the one side and Prussia, Great Britain, and Hanover on the other.


2006 June 11   (Two days before the election)

Nova Scotia
Provincial General Election

Political Websites

On Saturday, 13 May 2006, Premier Rodney MacDonald
announced a Provincial General Election
to be held on Tuesday, 13 June 2006.

The previous general election was held on 5 August 2003.
Just before the election was called, the
party standings in the Legislature were:
25   Progressive Conservative
15   New Democratic Party
10   Liberal
  1   Independent
  1   vacant


Nominations for candidates closed at 2:00pm on Tuesday, 30 May 2006.
In all, 210 people officially declared themselves as candidates.
The PCs, New Democrats and Green Party are represented in all 52 ridings.
The Liberal Party has 51 candidates (none in Queens County).
Three candidates are running as Independents.

Parties are listed below in the order of their standings
in the Legislature just before the election was called.




Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia

http://www.pcparty.ns.ca/
http://www.rodneymacdonald.ca/

52 candidates





New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia

http://www.ns.ndp.ca/

52 candidates





Liberal Party of Nova Scotia

http://www.liberal.ns.ca/
http://www.liberal.ns.ca/campaign/

51 candidates

(none in Queens)




Green Party of Nova Scotia

http://www.greenparty.ns.ca/

52 candidates





Independent Candidates

(Not affiliated with any party)

3 candidates



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because no typing was involved.



2007

400th Anniversary

Sieur de Poutrincourt
Water-powered Grist Mill
1607

The first grist mill in North America

Photographs: Poutrincourt's Mill 1607 historic monument Annapolis County
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/lequille.html


2007 January 30

Microsoft Windows Vista Releases Worldwide

Windows Vista is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops.  More than 90% of all desktop computers in the world run on some version of Microsoft's Windows operating system.  On 8 November 2006, Windows Vista development was completed and released to manufacturing.  Over the next two months it was released to MSDN subscribers, and computer hardware and software manufacturers.  On 30 January 2007, it was released worldwide to the general public, and became available for download from Microsoft's website, more than five years after the release of its predecessor, Windows XP.  Windows Vista features a slick new graphics set, more security functions and a new version of Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer.  Vista requires at least 512 megabytes of memory to run in bare-bones mode, but for the whole experience, the company recommends at least one gigabyte of memory, and two gigabytes would be even better.  The operating system also needs at least a 40 gigabyte hard drive with 15 gigabytes free space and a DVD drive.


2007 February 11

260th Anniversary

Attack at Grand Pre
11 February 1747   3am

History of Nova Scotia: Battle at Grand Pre, 1747 by Peter Landry
...This was December in the Bay of Fundy and it could not have been expected that any great time would be made by sailing. The vessels would have had to buck head winds; and, so too, they had to buck the reversing tides of the Fundy, the fastest and the highest in the world. The land loving men on the sailing vessels, at one point, became nervous and they were put ashore at the "French Cross" (Morden), on the other side of the North Mountain; they would simply meet the sailors and their vessels at Grand Pre, whenever they got there. Thus, on Christmas eve of 1746, we would have seen a couple of hundred New Englanders being put ashore; they were to make their way from there, best they can. This second group, while they might have originally thought that they were to have the easier time of it, had a tough eight day march, "without paths or guides," through the winter snow, over the Aylesford mountain and along unmarked sidehills, northeast, down the valley, until, finally, they met the south bank of the River Gaspereau, and there to find their comrades; who, most likely, were by then, well settled in at their destination, Grand Pre. It was now January; the ground would most likely have been frozen and covered with the snows of winter...
    http://www.blupete.com/Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part5/Ch03.htm

Photographs: Grand Pre Attack 1747 historic monument Kings County
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/attack1747.html


2007 December 8

250th Anniversary

Battle of Bloody Creek
8 December 1757

Footnotes to Chapter 10: Port Royal and The English Takeover: 1690-1744 by Peter Landry
The ambush took place about 12 miles northeast of the fort on the north side of the Annapolis River. Now known as Bloody Creek, a memorial marks the spot today on the south side of the river just where highway 201 intersects Bloody Creek, a mile west of the present day community of Carleton Corner...
    http://www.blupete.com/Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part2/Ch10fn.htm

Photographs: Battle of Bloody Creek historic monument Annapolis County
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/bloodycrk.html


2008 October 2

250th Anniversary

First Representative Government in Canada
2 October 1758

Most of Canada's basic Constitutional Rights
were first won in the Nova Scotia legislature

First page of the Nova Scotia Statutes of 1758
"...being the First General Assembly convened in the said province."
First page of the Nova Scotia Statutes of 1758
Source: The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: A Biographical Directory
edited and revised by Shirley Burnham Elliott, ISBN 088871050X
published 1984 by the Province of Nova Scotia

Representative government: A term used for government with an elected assembly.  These assemblies, in the British tradition, are the only body with the right to legislate and tax citizens.  In Canada, representative government was first won in Nova Scotia in 1758.

Responsible government: A term used for government responsible to the electorate (for example, through elections).  In Canada, the term was coined in the 1830s in Upper Canada to refer to a government that was responsible to the elected members of the House of Assembly.  Prior to 1848, governors could select the Executive Council (the equivalent of today's Cabinet) without the support of the Assembly.  On the instructions of the colonial office in Britain, the first responsible government in British North America was formed in Nova Scotia in 1848.


Page 18, Statutes, Treaties and Documents of the Canadian Constitution 1758-1929
(above) page 18 of Statutes, Treaties and Documents of the Canadian Constitution 1758-1929
Source: http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/9_03428/0004?id=33f3359cf7b028d2&size=2
Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions:   CIHM 9_03428
The First Nova Scotia General Assembly consisted of 22 members:
sixteen members elected for the province at large, four members for the
Township of Halifax, and two members for the Township of Lunenburg.
"...too many of the Members chosen are such as
have not been the most remarkable for promoting unity
or obedience to His Majesty's Government here..."
— Letter from Governor Lawrence to Lords of Trade, 26 September 1758
The rules, governing who was eligible to vote
in the election of Members, are found on
page 14 of Statutes, Treaties and Documents
of the Canadian Constitution 1758-1929.
    http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/9_03428/0043?id=58ae6c84630086d7


(below) title page of of Statutes, Treaties and Documents of the Canadian Constitution 1758-1929
Source: http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/9_03428/0047?id=33f3359cf7b028d2&size=3
Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions:   CIHM 9_03428
Title page,




More Information

Canada in the Making, Constitutional History: Nova Scotia 1749-1759
Nova Scotia was the first part of what is now Canada to win representative government...
    http://www.canadiana.org/citm/themes/constitution/constitution4_e.html




2010

250th Anniversary

Planters' Arrival
1760

In 1759, New England farmers and fishermen sent agents to Halifax to discuss with Governor Lawrence the settlement of the underdeveloped areas of Nova Scotia. Substantial immigration began in 1760 and by late 1763 several thousand settlers were established throughout Nova Scotia.

They were particularly successful in the area around Minas Basin, where they took up the fallow lands of the displaced Acadians.

By 1780, Edmund Burke could describe the province of Nova Scotia as "formed by the overflowings of the exuberant population of New England". The influx was to have a significant effect on the character and development of the province.

Photographs: Planters Monument, 1760 Horton Landing, Kings County
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/plantermon.html

Photographs: Planters Cairn, 1760 Town Plot, Starr's Point, Kings County
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/starrspt.html

Early June 1760

Historical narrative (title and author not known)
...The Haliburton family records tell of an even larger number of settlers,
who sailed together in a fleet of twenty-two vessels conveyed by a brig-of-war
with sixteen guns under the command of Captain Pigot that reached the
Cornwallis Town Plot on June 4, 1760. Horton Landing in King's County on
the opposite side of the river from Cornwallis had been the chief place of
anchorage for vessels going to Grand Pre through the whole French period in
Acadia, but there is no record of a ship landing at Horton until Sunday,
June 7, 1760, the day Betty Wickwire, the daughter of Captain Peter Wickshire
of New London, was born in the harbor of Horton Soon there would be ports
at Hortonville, Wolfville, and Avonport...
    http://www.csmaginnis.com/NOVASCOTIA.htm



Index with links to the other chapters



Go To:   Photographs of War Memorials, Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
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Go To:   Nova Scotia Quotations
    http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625quotes.html
Go To:   History of Electric Power Companies in Nova Scotia
    http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625electric.html
Go To:   History of Telegraph and Telephone Companies in Nova Scotia
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Go To:   History of Railway Companies in Nova Scotia
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Go To:   History of Automobiles in Nova Scotia
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Go To:   Index to other online Nova Scotia History
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