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2 unusual facts about Scotia-Mocatta


Scotia-Mocatta

Subsequent to 1957, the firm was managed by Edward Mocatta, with involvement and shareholdings variously from Hambros Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Henry Jarecki, Scotiabank, the Mocatta family and others.

With Peter Hambro as Deputy Managing Director and Henry Jarecki as Chairman, the firm dealt in options and futures trading in precious metals and pursued bullion deals in Russia, the United States, South America, Switzerland, Mexico, Germany, China, Hungary, Australia, Japan and South Africa, and became the largest gold and silver counter party to the Soviet Union.


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.

Africville

On June 15, 2009, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was presented with the book about Africville, at the Nova Scotia Alliance of Black School Educators.

Art Donahoe

He was president of the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association and of the Nova Scotia Medical Legal Society.

Balgonie Scotia

Balgonie Scotia AFC are a football club that are based in Coaltown of Balgonie, on the outskirts of Glenrothes, in Fife.

Barkhouse

Barkhouse Settlement, Nova Scotia, community in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada

Benoni Danks

His company often operated in tandem with Gorham's Rangers, based out of Halifax, and after 1761, the two companies were combined into a Nova Scotia ranging corps, led by Major Joseph Gorham.

Broadband for Rural Nova Scotia initiative

In the process of considering how best to provide universal connectivity, powerline networking was apparently not considered although it reaches very nearly "100% of civic addresses" in Nova Scotia and has up to a thousand times higher maximum throughput (up to half a gigabit per second using G.hn or IEEE 1901 on Atheros 7400 or Gigle Networks 541 chips).

Canso, Nova Scotia

In the Fall of 1720, the New Englanders built a fort named Fort Phillips, after the Governor of Nova Scotia Richard Phillips.

Cape Chignecto Provincial Park

The park's high southern cliffs support species of vetch and primrose with Alpine characteristics which are unique in Nova Scotia.

Charles Crosby

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

Charles Herbert Woodbury

After graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with degree in Mechanical Engineering), in 1886 Woodbury had great success painting up the New England coast and in the towns and beaches of Nova Scotia and exhibiting the results.

CKEN

CKEN-FM, a radio station (97.7 FM) licensed to Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada

CKOA

CKOA-FM, a radio station (89.7 FM) licensed to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

Darrell Dexter

Dexter, himself, lost his seat, the first sitting premier of Nova Scotia to do so since Ernest Armstrong in 1925.

Don Loney

Don served in Shearwater as the Base Physical Training and Recreation Officer for two years, and it was during this period that he coached the senior Shearwater Flyers football teams to Nova Scotia and Maritime championships in 1955 and 1956.

Duncan MacMillan

Duncan MacMillan High School, a secondary school in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

East Florida

The most powerful lubricant between the East Florida speculators and the Nova Scotia speculators was Col. Thomas Thoroton of Flintham, Nottinghamshire.

Edward Davison

Edward Doran Davison (1819–1894), lumber merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia

Fairview, Nova Scotia

Gradually, certain streets in the community became known for criminal activity, culminating in the late 1990s when the Nova Scotia chapter of the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang established a club house in the centre of the old business district.

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.

Hatchet Lake

Hatchet Lake, Nova Scotia - one of several lakes and a community in Nova Scotia

HMHS Llandovery Castle

Among those lost were fourteen nursing sisters from Canada, including the Matron Margaret Marjory (Pearl) Fraser from Nova Scotia (daughter of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Duncan Cameron Fraser).

Information Morning

It is produced out of the studios of CBHA-FM at the CBC Radio Building in Halifax, Nova Scotia and is simulcast on all CBC Radio One transmitters on mainland Nova Scotia.

James W. Reid

James William Reid (1859–1933), physician and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

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 Gordon, 1st Viscount of Kenmure

He was one of the first to embark in the scheme for the establishment of colonies in America, and in 1621 obtained a charter of what was called the barony of Galloway in Nova Scotia (now Baleine, Nova Scotia).

John Henry Bastide

In May 1744, before many of the English settlers in Nova Scotia had heard of the declaration of war, French forces from Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, attacked and captured Canso.

John James Grant

Grant was appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia on February 16, 2012 by Governor General of Canada David Johnston.

John McCurdy

John Alexander Douglas McCurdy (1886–1961), lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia and aviator

John Ryerson

John K. Ryerson (1820–1890), merchant and politician from Nova Scotia

L'Acadie blanc

Cuttings of the new grape variety were sent to the Kentville research station (now known as the Atlantic Food and Horticulture Research Centre) in Kentville, Nova Scotia.

Lawrence Hartshorne

He was born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, the son of John Hartshorne and Lucy Saltar, and came to Nova Scotia as a loyalist in 1783.

Lisa MacLeod

Her family ties to politics include Donald MacLeod, a former Cabinet Minister under Robert Stanfield in Nova Scotia, and Donald Cameron, a former Premier of Nova Scotia.

Mary Ellicott Arnold

In Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia, Arnold and Reed helped the mining community establish cooperative housing.

McElhinney

Robert McElhinney (1747–1831), Irish-born political figure in Nova Scotia

Membertou

Henri Membertou, a sakamow (Grand Chief) of the Mi'kmaq First Nations tribe situated near Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Mocatta

Long involved in finance, commerce, and the law, they are considered to be one of the principal families in the "cousinhood" of senior sephardic Anglo-Jewish families, the de facto Anglo-Jewish aristocracy: these influential families of the "cousinhood" include the d'Avigdor family, Sassoon family, Goldsmid family, Henriques family, Kadoorie family, Lousada family, Mazza Family, Montefiore, and Samuel family.

Monarchy in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia's first monarchical connections were formed when Jacques Cartier in 1534 claimed Chaleur Bay for King Francis I, though the area was not officially settled until King Henry IV in 1604 established a colony administered by the Governor of Acadia.

National Parks of Canada

Feasibility studies have been undertaken for establishing further National Parks in several areas, including Wolf Lake in Yukon, South Okanagan-Lower Similkameen in British Columbia, Manitoba Lowlands (north-western Lake Winnipeg), Mealy Mountains in Labrador and Sable Island in Nova Scotia.

No. 434 Squadron RCAF

In May 1944 the unit received Halifax Mk IIIs to replace its Mk Vs. The squadron was adopted by the Rotary Club of Halifax, Nova Scotia and to show its connection to the city adopted the nickname "Bluenose Squadron", the common nickname for people from Nova Scotia and a tribute to the schooner Bluenose.

Peter Kelly

Peter J. Kelly, Mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000–2012

RMS Ausonia

In December 1938, the Ausonia carried about 50 American veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade returning from the Spanish Civil War from Le Havre, France, by way of England and Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving in New York City on 20 December 1938.

Robert Fumerton

He was also awarded an Air Force Cross for service as Commanding Officer of No. 7 OTU (Operational Training Unit) at Debert, Nova Scotia.

Temple baronets

The Temple Baronetcy was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 7 July 1662 for the colonial administrator Thomas Temple.

Terry Mercer

Mercer has been an administrator and fundraiser for numerous charitable organizations such as the Kidney Foundation of Canada, St. John Ambulance, the Nova Scotia Lung Association, the YMCA and the Canadian Diabetes Association and is currently Past Chair of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Foundation for Philanthropy in Canada.

Wayne Tuck, Jr.

At the 2002 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, he skipped the Ontario team to a 10-1 round robin record, but they lost both their playoff matches, including the final to Nova Scotia, skipped by Mark Dacey.

Wilde, Buenos Aires

In 1903–04 the maddy coast of Wilde received unexpected visitors from the sea, some of the crew members of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition were hosted at the summer residence of Dr W. G. Davis, while their ship the Scotia ran aground in the Rio de la Plata estuary, and was stranded for several days before floating free and being assisted into the port of Buenos Aires by a tug, on 24 December.

William Fielding

William Stevens Fielding, Canadian journalist, politician, and Premier of Nova Scotia


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