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St Martin's Day Kermis by Peeter Baltens (16th century), shows peasants celebrating by drinking the first wine of the season, and a horseman representing the saint. Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas (obsolete: Martlemas), [1] [2] and historically called Old Halloween [A] or All Hallows Eve, [B] [3] [4] is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated in the liturgical year on 11 November.
The river (and Goose Lake) is first noted in a map drawn by Philip Turnor in 1779. [4] It was travelled by David Thompson [ 5 ] in 1794, and many other early European explorers and fur traders as a part of the "Middle Tract" from the interior of Canada to the Hudson Bay.
Saint Martins is a geographic parish in Saint John County, New Brunswick, Canada. [ 4 ] For governance purposes the bulk of the parish is divided between the village of Fundy-St. Martins [ 5 ] and the Fundy rural district, [ 6 ] both of which are members of the Fundy Regional Service Commission. [ 7 ]
Located in Alma, New Brunswick, Fundy National Park is under the management of Parks Canada, an agency of Environment Canada that is overseen by the Canadian government. [32] In the fiscal year of 2013-2014, Parks Canada allocated a budget of $693.7 million to maintain its portfolio of 44 national parks, 964 places of national historic ...
Goose River is an unincorporated place in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] It lies on the north shore of the province along Prince Edward Island Route 16 between Cable Head East to the southwest and Monticello to the northeast.
May 10—BELFAST, Maine — For decades, a 10-mile stretch of the Goose River generated hydroelectric power as water tumbled through three power plants and five dams on its way from Swan Lake to ...
Upper Tract: began on the Nelson River at Split Lake, Manitoba, somehow avoiding about 150 difficult miles of the lower Nelson, and went about 200 miles west-southwest up the Grass River, over the Cranberry Portage to the Goose River and down the Goose and Sturgeon-Weir River to Cumberland Lake on the Saskatchewan River about 50 miles west of ...
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