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unusual facts about Wallace, Nova Scotia



1915 in organized crime

Steve Wallace, with his brothers Frank and Jimmy Wallace of the Gustin Gang, begin hijacking and looting trucks in Southie often stripping cargo from the rear of the truck while stopped at intersections.

1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

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

2004–05 Indiana Pacers season

Several of the involved players were suspended by NBA Commissioner David Stern, but the hardest hit were Artest (suspended for the remainder of the regular season and playoffs), Jackson (suspended for 30 games), O'Neal (25 games), Wallace (6 games) and the Pacers' Anthony Johnson (5 games) (O'Neal's suspension was later reduced to 15 games by arbitrator Roger Kaplan, a decision that was upheld by U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels).

Action at Lanark

Fictionalised versions of this incident have appeared in various accounts of the Wallace's life, notably in the 1995 film Braveheart, where his wife was called Murron MacClannough.

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.

Canadian Forces National Investigation Service

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

Cleo Spurlock Wallace

Cleo Spurlock Wallace (born Cleo Spurlock, July 29, 1914 in Garo, Colorado - 1985) was an American pioneer in speech therapy.

David N. Henderson

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->B.S., Wallace High School, Wallace, North Carolina, 1938.

Dustin Milligan

Milligan was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the son of Jean Wallace, a former Yellowknife city councillor, and Brian Milligan.

Frank Ferguson

In the story line, as Wallace visits Lincoln, New Mexico, Sheriff Garrett tries to keep down brawling in the cantina owned by Big Mamacita (Connie Gilchrist), who is the grandmother of the governor's young aide.

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.

Harry S. Truman Historic District

He would live with family members in his early life, then the Wallace House, rented apartments and houses in Washington (including 4701 Connecticut Avenue), Blair House (the official state visitors residence), and the White House, but never a house that he had purchased.

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.

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.

Krum, Texas

Dr. W.H. Kimbrough's sons, Walter and Wallace, completed their medical education at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and joined their father in Krum.

Louis Wright

Louis C. Wright, American academic administrator, president of Baldwin-Wallace College from 1934 to 1948

Mayhayley Lancaster

Also included is information on Lancaster's role in the trial of John Wallace, subject of the book and movie Murder in Coweta County.

Mitchell Torok

Torok continued to write songs, working in partnership with his wife (who has used both Gayle Jones and Ramona Redd as pseudonyms, the latter being her maiden namea), and had recordings by artists including Skeeter Davis, Kitty Wells,Hank Snow and Willie Nelson, Jerry Wallace,Billy Walker, Barbara Eden, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin and Clint Eastwood, who sang Torok's song, "No Sweeter Cheater than You" in the Warner Brothers HONKY TONK MAN movie.

Mount Santubong

A year later, Wallace left Sarawak and wrote another article on evolution based on his years of observation in the Far East, that was sent to Charles Darwin and was presented together with his theory at the Linnean Society of London.

Nelson Symonds

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

Oregon gubernatorial special election, 1948

Incumbent governor John Hubert Hall, who took over after Snell's death until the election, lost the Republican nomination 51.13-48.87%, to state senator Douglas McKay, and the Democrats nominated state senator Lew Wallace, who had previously lost to Earl Snell in the 1942 gubernatorial election in a landslide.

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.

Penstemon floridus

austinii, is named for Stafford Wallace Austin, collector of plants and husband of writer Mary Hunter Austin.

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.

Port Maitland, Ontario

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

Rembert W. Patrick

Rembert Wallace Patrick (1909–1967) was a historian, longtime University of Florida history professor, and prolific author of works on Florida's history, particularly the Reconstruction Era.

Rusty Wallace Racing

In 2011, Rusty Wallace Racing acquired the owner's points of the No. 77 Penske Racing team, guaranteeing Steve Wallace a start in the 2011 Daytona 500.

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.

Samuel Hoi

He has juried numerous exhibitions and served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Surdna Foundation, Wallace Foundation, the DC Commission on Art and Humanities, and the California Community Foundation.

Samuel Wallace

On 20 November 1917 at Gonnelieu, France, when the personnel of Lieutenant Wallace's battery were reduced to five, having lost their commander and five sergeants, and were surrounded by enemy infantry, he maintained the firing of the guns by swinging the trails close together, the men running and loading from gun to gun.

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 Book of Lists

In 2005, a Canadian edition of The Book of Lists was published and credited to David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen and Jane Farrow.

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.

The Wallace

The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, an epic poem about the life of William Wallace by the Scottish writer Blind Harry

Thelma Scott

Almost a year later she and Wallace appeared together in the film A Ticket in Tatts.

This Week in Louisiana Agriculture

Former Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation Public Relations Director, Regnal Wallace, created This Week in Louisiana Agriculture in 1981 and the show became the state's first television farm news program.

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).

Timothy Long

In 2008, Bridge Records released Long’s first recording as conductor and pianist, The Music Teacher, a play/opera by Wallace and Allen Shawn.

Wallace Seawell

Wallace Seawell (September 16, 1916 – May 29, 2007) was an American photographer best known for his portraits of Hollywood stars such as Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn and George Burns.

Wallace, California

John Wallace was also an elder brother of Alfred Russel Wallace, a leading 19th century British naturalist who independently developed a theory of natural selection around the same time as Charles Darwin.

Wallace, Nova Scotia

Wallace is the birthplace of Simon Newcomb, the astronomer and mathematician, and the hometown of figure skater John Mattatall as well as the retirement residence of 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics co-winner Willard Boyle co-inventor of the charge-coupled device or the CCD imaging chip at the heart of digital cameras, and Raymond Legend of the EASHL Hartford Whalers.

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.

Western Oregon Wolves

On April 26, 2008, Sara Tucholsky, a reserve outfielder on the Wolves softball team (2005–08), hit the first home run of her college career in a victory over Central Washington University, but injured her knee rounding first base; Central Washington's Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace carried Tucholsky around the rest of the bases to home plate.

William Wallace

A well-known account of Wallace's life is presented in the 1995 film Braveheart, directed by and starring Mel Gibson as Wallace, written by Randall Wallace, and filmed in both Scotland and Ireland.


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