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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth

Originally a part of the Diocese of Quebec, the diocese of Halifax was established February 15, 1842 and included the whole of Nova Scotia.


1933 Outer Banks hurricane

The storm dropped heavy rainfall across the region, including 1.1 in (27 mm) in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and about 3 in (75 mm) in 15 hours in Gagetown, New Brunswick; there, the rains flooded roads and damaged crops.

2002 Bristow Helicopters Sikorsky S-76A crash

The wreckage, which included the helicopter's flight data recorder, was brought ashore at Great Yarmouth on 21 July, and transferred to an Air Accidents Investigation Branch facility near Aldershot, Hampshire, where it was examined by investigators from the AAIB, the US National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration, the aircraft manufacturer, and the operator.

A47

A47 road, a road connecting Birmingham and Great Yarmouth in England

Alfred Kantor

Alfred Kantor (born Prague, 7 Nov 1923 – died Yarmouth, Maine 16 Jan 2003) was a Czech-born Holocaust survivor, artist and author of The Book of Alfred Kantor.

Ben True

Born and raised in North Yarmouth, Maine, True competed as a Nordic skier and runner throughout his time at Greely High School and Dartmouth College.

Charles A. Crosby

In 2012, Crosby ran for mayor of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia municipal elections.

Charles Crosby

Charles A. Crosby, former mayor of the town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

CJLS

CJLS-FM, a radio station based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Colgan Air

Colgan Air Flight 9446, a Beech 1900D operated for US Airways Express as a non-revenue "ferry flight" hit the water off the coast of Yarmouth, Massachusetts shortly after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Hyannis, MA.

Diss Town F.C.

Under Robert Fleck the club won the Senior Cup for the third time in 2003, beating Great Yarmouth Town 4–1, and retained it the following season by beating Wroxham 3–0.

Edward B. Teague III

In the early 1990s, Teague was a conservative radio talk show host on WXTK-FM in Yarmouth, hosting the morning program.

Edward Murdstone

This arrangement is done secretly (much to Peggotty's disapproval), while David is away at the Yarmouth seashore.

Ernie Coombs

Ernest Coombs was born in Lewiston, Maine, and pursued a career in children's entertainment after attending North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine.

George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford

Resident at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, between 1751 and 1791 he served as High Steward of King's Lynn, recently but by then no longer the nation's third most important port because of the expansion of transatlantic trade from the west coast, and also High Steward of Yarmouth then a major fishing port.

Great Yarmouth Power Station

Great Yarmouth Power Station is Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power station on South Denes Road in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk with a maximum output of 420MW electricity, opened in 2001.

Great Yarmouth Racecourse

Since then Great Yarmouth winners included Ouija Board, who went on to win the English and Irish Oaks before scoring at the Breeders Cup, the annual international horse racing championships in the USA.

Hired armed cutter Active

Lake found his small crew far out-numbered by all his prisoners so he made first for Bridlington where he landed 55 of them, then on to Yarmouth with the prize and 20 others.

HSC Hai Xia Hao

For that season, the The Cat operated from Yarmouth to Bar Harbor on Mondays to Thursdays and from Yarmouth to the Ocean Gateway International Marine Passenger Terminal in Portland on Fridays to Sundays.

James Monk

In 1775, he was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Yarmouth, but was unseated the following year for nonattendance.

James Steerforth

David later invites Steerforth to Yarmouth to meet Daniel Peggotty, a fisherman who is the brother of his former housekeeper Clara Peggotty.

Janine Theriault

She grew up in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, where she lived until leaving to attend Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Natick, Massachusetts.

John Barkstead

Barkstead was a goldsmith in London; captain of parliamentary infantry under Colonel Venn; governor of Reading, 1645: commanded regiment at siege of Colchester; one of the king's judges, 1648; governor of Yarmouth, 1649, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 1652; M.P. for Colchester, 1654, and Middlesex, 1656; knighted, 1656: escaped to continent, 1660; arrested, 1661; brought to England and executed.

John Brinsley the younger

At mid-summer 1627 dismissed from his ministerial function in Yarmouth church, by a decree in chancery, given upon a certificate made by Archbishop William Laud.

John Musker Fillies' Stakes

It is run at Yarmouth, over a distance of one and a quarter miles (2,000 metres).

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.

Konstantin Kostin

He is the director of skating at the Yarmouth Ice Club in Kingston, Massachusetts.

Lord Grade

Michael Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth (born 1943), British broadcast executive and businessman

Maine State Route 88

These include (again heading northward) Portland Country Club, Skillins garden center and the Falmouth Sea Grill (all in Falmouth); Town Landing Market (which was once featured in a national Coca-Cola commercial) (Falmouth Foreside); and the Lower Falls Landing plaza (Yarmouth).

Matthew Murray

In 1811 the firm made a Trevithick-pattern high-pressure steam engine for John Wright, a Quaker of Yarmouth.

Melton Constable railway station

Both the Lynn & Fakenham and the Yarmouth & North Norfolk lines were built by Messrs Wilkinson & Jarvis of London who had raised the necessary funds through a mixture of bonds, debentures and mortgages, hoping that their speculative investment would pay off when a larger railway company would purchase the line.

National Cycle Route 22

National Cycle Route 22 (NCR22) runs from Banstead to Brockenhurst in the New Forest via Dorking, Guildford, Farnham, Petersfield, Havant, Portsmouth, Ryde, Yarmouth and Lymington.

Newtown Halt railway station

Comprising a single wooden platform situated at ground level, Newtown Halt was located on the northern side of Salisbury Road, approximately ½-mile north of the line's terminus at Yarmouth Beach, giving visitors access to the attractions found in the northern part of Yarmouth, as well as being convenient for Great Yarmouth High School.

Nova Scotia parliamentary expenses scandal

On February 9, 2010, the first political casualty of the scandal occurred when Richard Hurlburt, Progressive Conservative MLA for Yarmouth, resigned days after the Auditor General's report had shown he had spent about $8,000 on a generator, for his home.

Sunday Concert

"Ballad of Yarmouth Castle" chronicles the fate of the SS Yarmouth Castle which caught fire and sank off the Bahamas in November, 1965.

The Maritimes

Nova Scotia has a growing metropolitan area surrounding Halifax, but a contracting population in industrial Cape Breton, and several smaller centres in Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, and Pictou County.

Thorpe St Andrew

The A1242 or Yarmouth Road is part of the old Norwich to Great Yarmouth road.

Time and Tide

Time and Tide Museum, a museum dedicated to the maritime history of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

USAHS Acadia

SS Acadia, along with her sister ship the SS St. John, entered US coastal service for the Eastern Steamship Lines in 1932, originally in New York-Yarmouth coastal service with some one way passages for New York-Yarmouth-Halifax or Saint John.

William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth

William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth (1654 – 25 December 1732) was a British peer and politician.

WOCB

WXTK, a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to serve West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States, which held the call sign WOCB-FM in 1991

Yarmouth Bloaters

In 1949 the Bloaters finished joint top of Division Three with the Hanley Potters, but the Potters superior race points average meant that Yarmouth finished as runners up.

Yarmouth Train Station

The Old Colony Railroad built a new station in the Town of Yarmouth in 1878 at the junction where the Hyannis branch turns to the south towards Hyannis and the former main line continued east to Provincetown.

Zach Churchill

Churchill garnered just over half the popular vote, defeating a former MLA John Deveau, a former 20-year mayor of the Town of Yarmouth Charles Crosby and two minor party leaders.


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