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unusual facts about Richmond, Nova Scotia


Ebenezer Moseley

When Ebenezer, known as Eben, was five years old, the family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia and set up a shipyard in Richmond in the north of Halifax.


A Tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story

The documentary chronicles the entire 60-year history of the Richmond-based retailer, Circuit City.

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.

Annie Lim

Lim opened her first Canadian custom-cake shop, called "Chocolate Lover Cakes", in Richmond, British Columbia.

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.

Canadian Forces National Investigation Service

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

Chase Page

Page attended Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina during his senior season after transferring from Wando High School in Charleston and Tuckahoe Middle School in Richmond, Virginia.

Clover Forest Plantation

Clover Forest Plantation, located in Goochland, Virginia between Richmond and Charlottesville, is an authentically restored James River estate consisting of terraced landscaped grounds, a private lake, and a Federal-style mansion with portions dating back to pre-revolutionary America.

Corey Bell

Bell had 16 disposals on debut, against Richmond at Carrara, but appeared in just seven more games for the Bears.

Darren Gaspar

Gaspar continued his good form in 2001, winning the Jack Dyer Medal and helping Richmond reach the finals for the first time since the 1995 AFL season.

Dean Richmond

In 1861, as President-Elect Abraham Lincoln made his way to Washington, D.C., the engine that pulled the train was The Dean Richmond.

Derek Cha

Their next stores were then opened in Chesterfield, Richmond, Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Williamsburg, Virginia.

Driving club

It used to meet at Lord Chesterfield's house, and drive, in procession, to dinner at the Castle Hotel in Richmond.

Eric H. du Plessis

After graduating from VCU with a degree in philosophy, he studied at the University of Richmond, where he received a master's degree, and then went on to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, where he obtained his Ph.D. He then relocated to College Station, Texas where he became an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

F. Flaxington Harker

Beginning in 1914, Harker served as Organist and Choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia.

Fading Trails

It is a compilation of tracks from four different recording sessions, including recordings at Electrical Audio in Chicago, engineered by Steve Albini, Sound of Music Studio in Richmond, Virginia, produced by David Lowery, and Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, engineered by James Lott.

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Nationally broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS, it tells the story of The Greensboro Four, four young college freshman, Joe McNeil, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Ezell Blair Jr. now Jibreel Khazan, who staged a sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960 to protest segregation practices.

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.

Gustav Kaupert

In the United States, his creations can be found in Richmond, Virginia (monument of George Washington), and in Washington DC (figure of "America" at the Capitol building).

Hammerton

Hammerton's Ferry, pedestrian and cycle ferry service across the River Thames in Richmond upon Thames, London

Harry Easterly

He was a graduate of St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, and Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia where he was the president of the Class of 1944.

Historic Richmond Foundation

In addition, it has championed the preservation of numerous Richmond neighborhoods including Union Hill, the Fan District, Springhill, Oregon Hill, Monument Avenue and Windsor Farms.

Idle Hour, Lexington

Its boundaries are Idle Hour Country Club to the north, CSX railroad tracks to the east, New Circle Road to the south, and Richmond Road to the west.

James Taylor Ellyson

In his long political career, he went on to serve in the Senate of Virginia, as mayor of Richmond (1888–1894), and for twelve years (1906–1918) as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.

Jean Petitot

In Pierpont Morgan's collection there were many fine examples, including three drawings on paper, the only three which appear to have survived, and the large signed miniature of the duchess of Richmond already mentioned, the largest work Petitot ever did except one Chatsworth House.

John Short

Born in Richmond, Upper Canada and educated in Lennoxville, Canada East, he was the son of the Reverend Robert Short and Margaret Lyon, the grandson of John Quirk Short and the great-grandson of Robert Quirk Short.

Joshua Richmond

Richmond resides in Hillsgrove, Pennsylvania, and attended Troy State University.

Louis H. Marrero

On November 25, 1863, he was captured and imprisoned at Rock Island, Illinois, until March 1865, when he was taken to Richmond and put on probation.

Marquess of Zetland

He represented Richmond and Stirling in the House of Commons and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland.

Meadow Bridge

Battle of Meadow Bridge, an 1864 skirmish near Richmond, Virginia, in the American Civil War

Nathan Burke

It was also notable for the fact that the coaching panel of Richmond that day included fellow St Kilda teammates Danny Frawley and Stewart Loewe, who stayed on the ground in honour of Burke following his parade lap (with Alex Lloyd's "Amazing" played at the ground).

NCIX

Also in 2011, NCIX was the first to open an official Samsung Partnership store in North America, located in Aberdeen Centre, City of Richmond, Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.

Peregrine Hopson

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

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.

Peter Hudson

Hudson was kept goalless just three times during his senior career, by Richmond's Barry Richardson in 1969, Carlton's Rod Austin in 1977 and Bruce Greenhill of TFL club Sandy Bay in 1978.

Phryne Fisher

Phryne was not always rich, having been born into a poor family in Richmond, Melbourne.

Port Maitland, Ontario

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

Radarsat-2

To carry out this new project, the satellite's owner MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) of Richmond, B.C., was awarded $25-million contract to carry out upgrades (called project Polar Epsilon) to enhance the satellites capabilities to detect surface ships.

Richmond Ballet

In his 2011 article on American productions of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the New York Time's Alastair Macaulay singled out the Richmond Ballet production as one of the best in the country.

Richmond County Courthouse

Third County Courthouse or Richmond County Courthouse, a historic building in Staten Island, New York

Richmond Greenway

An additional side project will add a bike lane/bike trail between the Richmond Greenway and the Ohlone Greenway at Potrero Avenue via 23rd Street, Carlson Boulevard, Cutting Boulevard, and Potrero.

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially, the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of the San Francisco Bay in California, USA, connecting Richmond on the east to San Rafael on the west end.

Richmond, South Australia

Currently named City Mazda Stadium, this is the home base of the West Adelaide Football Club.

Robert Warren Stewart

After graduation he studied law in London, but the spiritual crisis of his conversion occurred at Richmond, Surrey when he was just about to become a lawyer.

Roy Powell

His composition "Bow Out" was adapted with a piece by David Bedford by the American choreographer Val Caniparoli to create the ballet piece "Bow Out", performed by ballet companies in Oakland, Richmond, Cincinnati and Florida.

Spotted wolffish

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

Too many men

The only well-documented case where a team had its entire score annulled this way occurred in an Under 19 game between Richmond and Carlton in August 1971, and resulted from a mistaken signal by a trainer whereby a substitute entered the game before the player he was to replace had left.

Tuff Monks

The collaboration only ever appeared live once, at Richmond's Tiger Lounge venue doing a cover version of "Ring of Fire".

Vagas Ferguson

He is employed in the athletic department at Richmond High School, and is president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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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