Nova Scotia

England, France, and Spain struggled to gain control of Colonial North America. The settlers from each country came to the New World for different reasons, and with different concepts of governance from their own countries. Because of these differences the colonist’s from different countries had advantages and disadvantages that impacted the destiny of the New World. Settlement location, political affiliations, religious beliefs, and economic strengths all contributed to the English…

The French Revolution and American Revolution were similar in particular aspects. However, there were a lot of differences between the two wars, especially involving their slaves during their respected time periods. After the defeat of the British at Yorktown, many Americans didn’t understand the lasting impact that the black people had during the War for their Independence against the British. At the 1876 Centennial Celebration of the Revolution in Philadelphia, not a single speaker…

Columbia, as a result around 200 Issei volunteers overcame B.C's racial barrier and traveled to Alberta where they were accepted.8 Similar circumstances occurred with the Black Canadians, they were initially rejected but after much persistence the Nova Scotia No. 2 Construction Battalion was created solely for them.9 At times of war white Canadians felt that it was their country to defend, not the others but as the minorities endured the racial ignorance and tried to prove to that they were…

General acts as her representative in Canada and works alongside the Prime Minister, which leaves Canada as a constitutional monarchy. When Canada became a British colony, confederation, then came into play, forming a union between Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Constitution Act of 1867, also known as The British North America Act, was what united these provinces, this divided provincial…

family ten months at a time. Letters to be sent home were reviewed and censored by the teachers (Sandy, 2006; Schmalz, 1991; Willis, 1973 as cited in Truth and Reconciliation, 2012). In 1934 a group of boys stole cash at the Shubenacadie school in Nova Scotia. The result was that 19 boys were flogged with a harness leather made seven-thonged strap. A majority was placed on a bread-and-water diet for three days. When the parents complained, the judicial inquiry absolved the principal’s behavior…

During the mid-seventeenth century, England was facing the enormous debt from the Seven Year’s War, where the British and its colonial allies fought France and won the war. The Parliament passed several laws to help decrease the debt. The Stamp Act, Sugar Act, and the Tea Act were all established to lower it, but it changed and affected many lives negatively, along the way. After the Seven Year’s War, the Parliament needed to find ways to solve the problem with the war debt. The prime minister…

In the 20th century, many artists, writers, and political commentators had interesting, imaginative, and specific visions of the future. One particular prediction that has wowed audiences for generations is the idea of a state of mass surveillance. In 1960, an artist by the name of Arthur Radebaugh drew a comic that was reflective of this theme. As it is aptly titled, the “All-Seeing Eye Police Department” depicts police officers at a futuristic precinct, as they monitor several screens…

According to Boyd (2015), negligence can be defined as the failure “to conform to a standard of reasonable care” (p. 202). In tort cases concerning negligence, unlike criminal cases, the culpability of the accused is not dependent on malicious intent. Instead, to establish negligence the plaintiff must present “a case that is more probable than not” (Boyd, 2015, p. 203). The cases of Annapolis County District School Board v. Marshall and Ediger v. Johnston contain disputes between various courts…

The Greatest Illusion – The Biggest Disaster Jacob Jankowski was just a young boy who was about to emark on the world as a Cornell graduate of verternary medicine. Unaware what the future would hold as he learns about the death of his parents, and life during the great depresion The Great Depresion Twelve million people out of work; twelve thousand people being made unemployed every day; twenty thousand companies gone bankrupt; one thousand sixteen banks – bankrupt; one in twenty farmers,…

by running away. In Georgia alone, 5000 slaves, a third of the colony's prewar total, ran away. In South Carolina, a quarter of the slaves achieved freedom. In the end, more than 3,000 blacks left from New York with the British, most bound for Nova Scotia in Canada. At least 8,300 blacks were seized to East Florida from Savannah and Charleston. Of course many remained in a state of slavery to loyalists who had fled. But many had earned their freedom during the…