1940 NOVA SCOTIA magazine article, history, people, color photos

Description: Selling is a 1940 magazine article about: Nova Scotia Title: Salty Nova Scotia Author: Andrew H Brown Subtitled “In Friendly New Scotland Gaelic Songs Still Answer the Skirling Bagpipes” Quoting the first page “Seagirt Nova Scotia is the Atlantic outpost for Canada at war. Grimly, but with patriotic zest, her people have assumed the fresh responsibilities arising from the position of their Province as the doorstep to the Dominion. In Nova Scotian ports, as in other Canadian maritime cities, mine fields and submarine nets protect the closely guarded anchorages. Docks and gangplanks echo to the tramp of embarking regiments. Yet beyond the busy water fronts the visitor to bonny "New Scotland" finds life going on in much the usual way, for Nova Scotians take events in stride. And on every hand he sees evidence of the rich heritage that links Nova Scotia with the motherland over the sea. Canada was still at peace when I went to Nova Scotia. A friend had written to me about the sunrise Province: "Here you'll breathe sea air that blends with breezes fragrant with spruce. You'll skirt granite headlands strewn with skeletons of forgotten wooden ships, and tack into quiet harbors under leaning sails. "You can sit on old guns rusting in shattered forts and dream of long ago when the French and English fought bitterly for this land. You will find kilted men in gay Glengarry bonnets proudly bearing tasseled bagpipes upon which they still skirl their bold ancestral airs". "Nova Scotia," I recalled, is simply Latin for "New Scotland." On a pocket map of the Province I checked names redolent of the homeland of Stuart kings: Lochaber, Glengarry, Argyle, and Culloden, Barra, Glencoe, lona, Loch Lomond, Strathlorne, Skir Dhu, and Dundee. Angus Macdonald is the name of the Premier, and MacMillan, McDonald, and MacQuarrie are the names of three members of his Cabinet. Among 320 voters listed in one electoral district, Iona, I counted 205 McNeils. North in the Province I found so many McLeods, McLeans, McDonalds, and McNeils in some districts that last names are meaningless. Neighbors there are known to one another only by nicknames. Fathers' occupations or baptized names become children's surnames: Red Norman, Sarah Buttermilk, Johnny Postman, Freddie Bank, George Holy (son of "Holy" John). "So Scottish is Nova Scotia," a traveler remarked, "that its Indians are even called Micmacs!" Yet the modern fitness of its Latin name is only a coincidence. Canada's sunrise Province actually was named "New Scotland" while French and Indians still held the land and 152 years before Highland settlers came to stay. To Sir William Alexander, a Scottish gentleman of the Court, James I of England granted, in 1621, all lands lying between New England and Newfoundland, "to be…" 7” x 10”, 48 pages, 30 B&W and 21 color photos plus map These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1940 magazine. 40E1 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other auctions and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books. Click Here To Visit My eBay Store: busybeas books and ads Hundreds of items! Anything I find that looks interesting! Please see my other auctions for more goodies, books and magazines. I’ll combine wins to save on postage. No postage charge for the ads or articles if you buy a book that I can mail the ads/articles inside. Thanks For Looking! Luke 12: 15

Price: 9.99 CAD

Location: Hubbards, Nova Scotia

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