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Fort Sackville was a British fort in present-day Bedford, Nova Scotia.It was built during Father Le Loutre's War by British adjacent to present-day Scott Manor House, on a hill overlooking the Sackville River to help prevent French, Acadian and Mi'kmaq attacks on Halifax.
Bedford (pop. 36,354 [2]) is a former town and now a district of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the north west shore of the Bedford Basin in the central area of the municipality. It borders the neighbouring communities of Hammonds Plains to the west, Sackville to the north, Dartmouth to the east, and mainland Halifax to the south.
The Acadia Paper Mill was established in Nova Scotia by Anthony Henry Holland sometime between 1817 and 1819. [1] [2] It was the second paper mill in Canada and the first in Atlantic Canada.The mill was built on the Nine Mile River, near Bedford Basin. Early paper makers included two sons-in-law of Holland; John Campbell and Samuel Courtney.
Charles P. Allen High School (CPA) is a senior high school located in Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada. This school serves Hammonds Plains, Bedford and a section of Halifax since 2010; for three years at the original CPA and current location since 2013.
Animal menagerie. Live animals stopped being used in the parade after 1926. Replacing them would be the balloons we know and love today, starting with an inflatable Felix the Cat, a toy soldier ...
The community of Halifax, Nova Scotia was created on 1 April 1996, when the City of Dartmouth, the City of Halifax, the Town of Bedford, and the County of Halifax amalgamated and formed the Halifax Regional Municipality.
The Acadian Exodus began in 1749 primarily because the Acadians were resisting the British firmly taking control of peninsular Nova Scotia through establishing Halifax and, within eighteen months, building fortifications in the major Acadian communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand-Pré (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence).
Flag of the Canadian Forces.. The following is a list of the notable authorized marches [1] [2] [3] for various organisations of the Canadian Armed Forces.The first march listed is the march most commonly performed for that organisation on parade; it is commonly referred to simply as that organisation's "march" or "march past".