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Above Photo of Halifax Town Clock by Peter Bennett, 2004.
The Town Clock after the blizzard of Feb. 20, 2004.
New France - New Horizons - On French Soil in America
Pictures taken of aircraft stranded at Halifax International Airport as a result of Sept.11, 2001
The Acadian flag is based on the French tri-color representing the origins of the Acadians. The yellow star is symbolic of the Acadian patron saint, the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Assumption. Acadians chose their patron saint in 1881, confirmed by decree by Pope Pius XI on January 19, 1938.
October 15, 1936 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mary Teresa Sullivan 1902-1973 sworn in as member of Halifax City Council; first woman alderman in Canada.
Six Nova Scotia lakes contain only "one letter" for a name . . .
"A" Lake (Halifax County)
D lake (Pictou County)
S Lake (Queens County)
T Lake (Guysborough County)
Y Lake (Halifax County)
Z Lake (Pictou County)
Nova Scotia
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Relief map
© 2000, 2002 Government of Canada with permission from Natural Resources Canada.
Highest Tides
A long-simmering feud between Arctic Quebec and the Maritimes over who has the world's highest ocean tides has been settled by federal scientists, but neither side is happy with the outcome. ( Map from Parks Canada)
Authorities at the Canadian Hydrographic Service, the agency responsible for mapping domestic waterways, have declared a tie between the famous tides of the Bay of Fundy and those of Ungava Bay on the northern coast of Quebec.
... the world's largest tides, "with a range from low to high tide that can exceed 16 metres at the head of the bay," has been wiped out after scientists determined it was in a tidal tie with Leaf Basin in the southwest corner of Ungava Bay.
They say the highest tides in Leaf Basin are 16.8 metres. The latest high tide data from Burntcoat Head, N.S., on the shore of the Minas Basin shows 17-metre tides.
The very highest tides only occur in each location once every 18 years, so these numbers are projected estimates using annual high tide averages. Because the projected difference between Ungava Bay and the Bay of Fundy is only 20 centimetres, it is a tie.
BAY OF FUNDY:
- Measurements at Minas Basin, N.S., were taken at Burntcoat Head, Latitude 45.18ƒN, Longtitude 63.45ƒW.
- Minas Basin is the broadest part of the southeast head of the Bay of Fundy. At its widest, it is 30 kilometres.
- A pressure tide gauge was submerged at one stage for 311 days to record the tides.
- Minas Basin was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records with the highest recorded tide at 16 metres.
- Mi'kmaq folklore suggests the high tides in the Bay of Fundy are caused by a mighty whale splashing its tail in water.
UNGAVA BAY:
- Measurements at Ungava Bay, Nunavik, were taken at Leaf Basin, Latitude 58.44ƒN, Longitude 69.50ƒW.
- Ungava Bay is an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean and is about 320 kilometres long and 257 km wide at its mouth.
- A pressure tide gauge was submerged for 200 days to record the tides.
- A group from Leaf Lake wrote to the Guinness Book of World Records claiming their tide reached 16.76 metres but the record was disputed and never entered.
- The Inuit of Ungava (the word means "toward the open water") have a legend that whales came from the fingers of the goddess Sedna.
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For more information, see
Graphs and Tables Based on Canadian Statistics
Where the names came from
NOVA SCOTIAAlthough applied first on September 29, 1621, when Sir William Alexander (1567?-1640) received a grant of "the lands lying between New England and Newfoundland ... to be known as Nova Scotia, or New Scotland", the name did not become fixed on the map until after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. |
HALIFAXFounded June 21, 1749, and named for George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax (1716-71), then President of the Board of Trade. Became the capital of Nova Scotia on July 14, 1749. |
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