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A Look at the Provinces, Part VIII: Nova Scotia
his is the eighth article in the series. Nova Scotia is the most Eastern Mainland territory in Canada. Situated east of New Brunswick is one of the provinces that made up Acadia. It has an area of 55,490 square kilometres and has a population of 899,942 people. The Capital is Halifax. It was one of the founding provinces in 1867.
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The Oak Island Mystery Pit
During my months of searching the internet for interesting sites and stories on maritime history for Suite101.com, I’ve come across many fascinating stories, stories which seem too strange to be true. What follows is one of those stories. Though it does not involve ships or shipwrecks, it does involve pirates and an island – Oak Island.
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Pirates of Canada - part 2
Pirates frequented the waters of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Most were English, but some were French or Dutch. The earliest account of piracy occurred in 1582 when Henry Oughtred and Sir John Perrot attacked Portuguese and Spanish fishermen near Avalon. During the 17th and 18th centuries, a few notorious pirates left their calling cards, yet most faded into the annals of history.
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CANADIAN FACTS
This article tells facts and statistics on Canada. From the longest river to how many the provinces, territories and their capitals, you will learn a lot about Canada and the people who live here.
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Canadian Privateers
By definition a privateer is either the ship, the crew, or the captain of a vessel licensed by a particular government during times of war to prey on enemy ships. Canadian privateers played an important role in several wars, especially during the 18th and 19th centuries. Most sailed from Nova Scotia because of its close proximity to the United States and the North Atlantic. Often considered little more than legal pirating, "by mid 1700s [privateering] was carefully regulated, respectable and as law abiding as the navy," according to Daniel Conlin, Curator of Marine History at the <a name="Maritime_Museum_of_the_Atlantic"><a href="http://maritime.museum.gov.ns.ca/">Maritime Museum of the Atlantic</a> in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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