1 August 2010 - The Mi'kmaw First Nations (in Nova Scotia there are currently 13 communities on 42 reserve locations across the province with an ...
British Evacuee Children Arrive in Halifax, August 1941. - E.A. Bollinger. Nova Scotia Archives. - Contributed- The Mi'kmaw First Nations celebrated the 400th anniversary of the St. Anne's Mission at their annual gathering at Potlotek Cape Breton Island - one of the oldest Roman Catholic sites in Canada - recognized as a place of national historic significance.St. Anne is the Mi'kmaq patron saint since 1629-30.
They were the first of nine groups that ultimately brought 2,664 children to various Commonwealth countries - including 1,532 children to Canada - all sponsored by the British government’s Children’s Overseas Reception Board . The Board’s objectives were to protect children from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities in England and move them to areas thought to be less at risk.
Though CORB had over 24,000 children approved for evacuation overseas, the sinking of the City of Benares raised further fears of more losses and the CORB program was cancelled. However, by the end of 1941, it is estimated that over 14,000 British children had also been evacuated by private arrangements to North America - 6,000 to Canada and 5,000 to the United States.- William Cochran died in Windsor and was buried in Windsor’s Old Parish Burying Ground.
Known originally by the Mi’kmaw as Kespoowitk, meaning “land’s end,” the island had been first charted by explorers from Portugal. It was first settled in 1620 as Cap de Sable under the then French governor of Acadia, Charles de la Tour, along with a small group of Acadians. Later in the 1750s, after the Deportation, the island saw the arrival of New England Planters from Cap Cod and nearby Nantucket, who established a successful fishery on the island.
Born in Ireland, Eager had arrived with his family in Halifax from St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1834 and became active in teaching drawing to students. By 1836 he began creating a ‘series of views’ of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Upper Canada, some of which were engraved in Edinburgh and published in December 1837.
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