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3 unusual facts about Antigonish


Cape Breton—Canso

Most of its territory (except for the community of Sydney River) was incorporated into a new riding called "Cape Breton—Canso", and it also added a portion of Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough on the mainland.

John Gaventa

John Gaventa OBE (born 1949) is the director of the Coady International Institute and Vice-President of International Development at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Mary Jane Lamond

Born in Kingston, Ontario, she graduated from Westmount High School in Montreal and then the Celtic Studies program with a minor in Music at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.


Howard P. Whidden

Born in Antigonish Harbour, Nova Scotia, became a Baptist minister in Dayton, Ohio and likely knew John D. Rockefeller and may have been instrumental, along with Cyrus' uncle Charles Aubrey Eaton, in Rockefeller meeting Cyrus S. Eaton.

Hyland Fraser

Fraser served in municipal politics from 1984 and was Antigonish County Warden for Heatherton until his resignation in 1998, when he ran for the Liberal nomination for the electoral district of Antigonish.

Jake Siemens

This vision rallied many of the co-operative leader of the time, including Alexander Laidlaw, Barney Arnasson and Harry Fowler.

María Rosa Lojo

Brett Alan Sanders’ English translations of her poetry and prose have appeared in The Saint Ann's Review, Chelsea, Stand Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Perihelion, Artful Dodge, Event, New Works Review, Hunger Mountain, Rhino, Mudlark: An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics, Contemporary Verse 2, PRISM International, and The Dirty Goat.

Riverside International Speedway

Riverside Speedway is a 1/3 mile, high banked, asphalt short track located in James River, Nova Scotia, Canada, about ten kilometres southwest of the town of Antigonish.

Vernon Fougère

Following further education at the Jesuit Theological Union at the University of California, Fougère returned to Nova Scotia where he served in a number of parishes before being appointed Vicar General and Director of Pastoral Services for the Diocese of Antigonish in 1988.


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