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unusual facts about Inverness, Nova Scotia


Randy Copley

Randy Copley (b. 4 October 1979 in Inverness, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was selected by New York Rangers round 2 #40 overall in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft.


1812 in Canada

March 11 - John Burbidge, soldier, land owner, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia.

1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

Prior to departure, the two teams played three exhibition games in Nova Scotia.

A Fictional Guide to Scotland

This reading tour visited places as far and wide as Wigtown, Ullapool, Inverness, Edinburgh, Stirling, Lanark and Glasgow and was supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

A Night of Triumph

The concert was recorded on January 16, 1987, at the Halifax Metro Centre in Nova Scotia during Triumph's Sport of Kings tour.

Alfred Eick

At the 25 anniversary of Eick's sinking of the SS Point Pleasant Park, the surviving crew created a monument to those that died in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Arunah Shepherdson Abell

Arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia by ship from Europe, it traveled overland by pony to Annapolis, by steamship to Portland, Maine, and then by rail to Baltimore.

Battle of Fort Cumberland

When the news reached Halifax through the efforts of Thomas Dixson, Lieutenant Governor Marriot Arbuthnot responded by dispatching orders on the 15th for any available ship based at Annapolis to go to Fort Edward in Windsor, to convoy troops to relieve the siege.

Bught

The sports fields are used as the home grounds for Inverness Blitz American football home games.

Canadian Forces National Investigation Service

Atlantic Region, based in CFB Halifax, Nova Scotia, with responsibility for the four Atlantic provinces;

Castle Stuart Platform railway station

Castle Stuart Platform was a railway station located near Castle Stuart, to the east of Inverness, now in Highland council area.

Clan MacBean

Forbes Macbean, another of the well known military family descended from Reverend Alexander MacBean of Inverness (mentioned above), won a DSO (Distinguished Service Cross) in 1897 when serving as a Major in the Gordon Highlanders, for the gallant and courageous action in taking the heights of Dargai near the border of Afghanistan, in India's old north west province, which is now part of Pakistan.

Clark's Harbour

The community is the southernmost town in the province of Nova Scotia, and thus one of the southernmost towns in Canada, being located roughly on a parallel with Zaragoza, Spain and just north of Rome.

David Leslie, Lord Newark

Macleod, who had fought with Montrose at the siege of Inverness, delivered him up to the Covenanters (see Battle of Carbisdale).

Drakies

Drakies is a small housing estate on the outskirts of Inverness, Scotland, lying immediately south of the former Inverness-shire village of Culcabock.

Earl of Inverness

The title of Earl of Inverness (Scottish Gaelic:Iarla Inbhir Nis) was first created in 1718 in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart ("James III & VIII") for the Honourable John Hay of Cromlix, third son of the 7th Earl of Kinnoull, but became extinct upon the death of the grantee in 1740.

Fencibles

The Royal Fencible Americans was a Loyalist unit raised by the British in Nova Scotia in 1775, that successfully withstood an attack by Patriot forces under Jonathan Eddy at the Battle of Fort Cumberland.

Gedney family

Joshua Gedney and his brother Joseph were forced to change their names to Gidney and to flee from New York to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1783.

General Service Area

General Service Area is a term used by the Canadian province of Nova Scotia to describe the boundaries of areas that are communities or place names in Nova Scotia.

Halifax bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games

The Halifax bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games was a withdrawn bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games by Halifax Regional Municipality, the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Hayley Lever

Throughout his life, he traveled and painted extensively, including Nova Scotia and Grand Manan Island in Canada, the Bahamas and Florida, while often returning to Europe.

Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service

It was the fire service covering the largest geographical area in the United Kingdom (its area is roughly equivalent in size to Belgium), and has its headquarters in the city of Inverness.

History of the Halifax Regional Municipality

At the same time, the towns people and especially seafarers were constantly on-guard of the press gangs of the Royal Navy.

Holm, Inverness

Additionally a large electrical substation is sited on Dores Road and this facility serves most of Inverness.

Holm is a small residential area in the south of the city of Inverness, Scotland.

Jim Boudreau

In May 2013, Boudreau's private member bill to officially recognize Nova Scotia's provincial flag passed third reading in the Nova Scotia legislature.

John Breynton

By 1745, he was a chaplain on a ship of war at the various engagements between the sieges of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.

John Ferguson McLennan

He was born at Inverness, the son of John McLennan, an insurance agent of Inverness, and Jessie Ross, his wife.

John Peter Portelli

He also taught at St. Mary’s University, Taxas, U.S.A. (1994–95); the Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia (1997–98); and at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1998).

John Smith Murdoch

After completing his articles in 1883 he became assistant in the office of Alexander Ross in Inverness before moving to Glasgow to work for Campbell Douglas & Sellars and then for the Glasgow South Western Railway Engineers' Department.

Keith R. Porter

Keith Porter was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on June 11, 1912, and became a citizen of the United States in 1947.

Kilmuir

Kilmuir, Black Isle - near North Kessock and Inverness, in the historic parish of Kilmuir Wester

Kinmylies

Kinmylies is an area in the west end of the city of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.

Maurice Ruddick

Maurice A Ruddick (1912–1988) was an Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, an underground earthquake, or "bump" as the miners call it, in the Springhill mine in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Nelson Symonds

Nelson Symonds (September 24, 1933 – October 11, 2008) was a jazz guitarist from Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia.

No. 614 Squadron RAF

In June 1940 No. 614 squadron moved to Scotland to carry out coastal patrols, covering an area from Inverness to Berwick, 'A' flight, which was detached to Inverness for that purpose, became No. 241 Squadron RAF in the process.

Pasta primavera

In 1975, New York chef Sirio Maccioni flew to the Canadian summer home of Italian baron Carlo Amato, called Shangri-La Ranch located on Robert's Island, Nova Scotia.

Patrick Michael Dewan

He was born in Osgoode Township, Ontario, the son of John Joseph Dewan, and was educated at Willis Business College in Ottawa, the University of Ottawa, St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph.

Peregrine Hopson

In April 1746 Hopson arrived in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia with a number of reinforcements intending to relieve the existing British garrison.

Hobston is perhaps best known for signing the Peace Treaty of 1752 with Mi'kmaq chief Jean-Baptiste Cope which is celebrated (along with other treaties) every year by Nova Scotians on Treaty Day.

Peter Crerar

Today the Albion Mines Railway is commemorated by the “Samson Trail” following the route of the old railway from the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry along the East River towards Abercrombie.

Philip Myers

Before arriving at the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Myers was principal horn of the Atlantic Symphony, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1971–1974, third horn with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1974–1977, and principal horn of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1978 - 1980.

Port Maitland, Ontario

:There is also a Port Maitland in the province of Nova Scotia; see Port Maitland, Nova Scotia.

Robert B. Pinter

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and visiting fellow of the center for visual sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Said Awad

Said A. Awad, (Arabic: سعيد عبد الكريم عوض) MD, BCh, FRCS, is Professor Emeritus of Urology at Dalhousie University Medical School, in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Screen Machine

In recent years, it stood in for Eden Court’s Riverside Theatre in Inverness whilst they were closed for a major refurbishment.

Spotted wolffish

The bottom-dwelling spotted wolffish is found across the North Atlantic from north of Russia to the Scotian Shelf, off Nova Scotia.

The Ovens, Nova Scotia

The private park located in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, owned and operated by Angela and Steve Chapin (brother of Harry Chapin), located at the meeting point of Lunenburg and Rose Bay in Lunenburg County.

Thomas Temple

Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet (January 1613/14 at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England – 27 March 1674 at Ealing, Middlesex) was a British proprietor, governor of Acadia/ Nova Scotia (1657–70).

West Nova Scotia Regiment

The regiment recruits volunteers from all over the province of Nova Scotia and has its headquarters at LFAATC Aldershot, near the community of Aldershot, Nova Scotia.


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