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    The Scotian was a named Canadian passenger train service that ran between Montreal, Quebec, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was operated by Canadian National...
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    continue a CN train named the Scotian, thus the Atlantic assumed that train's numbers of 11/12 (westbound/eastbound) and equipment. Under Via, the Atlantic...
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  • antagonist in Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos The Scotian (train), former Via Rail route The Scotians, referring to the North Preston's Finest gang...
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    The Westin Nova Scotian is a Canadian hotel located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, owned and operated by New Castle Hotels and Resorts. It was built in 1928...
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    1946. On 23 Apr 1947, the division was Re-commissioned to the unit we now know today as HMCS Scotian. Today, HMCS Scotian trains sailors for Canadian Armed...
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    the train numbers and equipment of the defunct CN passenger train Scotian, which survived only into the first few years of the Via era. Under Via, the Ocean...
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  • Quebec City. The train was first established in 1979 to supplement the Ocean in eastern Quebec following the cancellation of the Scotian. Service lasted...
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    Halifax station (Nova Scotia) (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    the North End to the Halifax Railway Station. The Halifax Railway Station adjoins the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, a former railway hotel that was built...
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  • Whale oil (redirect from Train-oil)
    oil is oil obtained from the blubber of whales. Oil from the bowhead whale was sometimes known as train-oil, which comes from the Dutch word traan ("tear...
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  • daily trains between Montreal and Halifax via Mont-Joli, Campbellton, and Moncton: the Ocean and the Scotian. On October 28, 1979, the Scotian was discontinued...
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  • list of named passenger trains in Canada. The primary source for Canadian passenger train names is the Official Guide of the Railways, which has been...
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    a popular vote share of 38.44%, the PCs won the smallest winning vote share of any majority government in Nova Scotian electoral history. Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin’s...
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    Nova Scotian Institute of Science. 1869. Retrieved September 4, 2016. "On the meteorology of Halifax, 1870" (PDF). Allison, F. (1871). Nova Scotian Institute...
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    to relieve the Nova Scotia medical staff, most of whom had worked without rest since the explosion occurred. Nova Scotian children study the explosion...
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    Ava (wrestler) (category American people of Black Nova Scotian descent)
    her father's side, Johnson is the granddaughter of Ata (née Maivia) and Rocky Johnson, a Samoan and Black Nova Scotian respectively. Through her paternal...
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    Rocky Johnson (category Black Nova Scotians)
    where he was raised, the fourth of five sons of Lillian (née Gay; 1919–1996) and James Henry Bowles (1888–1957). A Black Nova Scotian, he was descended from...
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  • Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a film theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946. The background of the portrait...
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    Super Continental (category Canadian National Railway passenger trains)
    The Super Continental was a transcontinental Canadian passenger train operated by the Canadian National Railway from 1955 until 1977, when Via Rail took...
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    the Nova Scotian towns of Truro, Kentville, Amherst, Stellarton, Pictou, and Sydney and from New Brunswick, including the town of Sackville, and the cities...
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    Viola Desmond (category Black Nova Scotians)
    Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland...
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    Donald McKay (category Emigrants from pre-Confederation Nova Scotia to the United States)
    Donald McKay (September 4, 1810 – September 20, 1880) was a Nova Scotian-born American designer and builder of sailing ships, famed for his record-setting...
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    Portia White (category Black Nova Scotians)
    predominately Black Nova Scotian, and during this time White was finally able to begin paying for vocal lessons. She competed regularly at the Halifax Music Festival...
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    the U.S. Johnson's father was a Black Nova Scotian with a small amount of Irish ancestry and his mother is Samoan. His father and Tony Atlas were the...
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    Black Loyalist (category African Americans in the American Revolution)
    as the Nova Scotian Settlers in the new British colony of Sierra Leone. Both waves of settlers became part of the Sierra Leone Creole people and the founders...
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    Shadowboxing (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    television cameras. Black Nova Scotian boxer George Dixon is widely credited for developing the technique. Most boxing trainers prefer that their fighters...
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    During the Victorian era, Nova Scotians also played prominent roles in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. The province also participated in the North-West...
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    Evangeline (category Works about the French and Indian War)
    took the idea and turned it into a poem after months of studying the histories of Nova Scotian families. Longfellow, who had never visited the setting...
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    the Maritime Express and the Scotian, as well as various local trains. In 1906 the ICR constructed a new round house in the town's east end along the...
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    Southern Tuskegee Institute. The Dunning School of scholars, who were trained at the history department of Columbia University under Professor William A...
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    War of 1812 (redirect from The War of 1812)
    Foremasts: The North American Squadron in Nova Scotian Waters, 1745–1815. UBC Press. Hacker, Louis M. (March 1924). "Western Land Hunger and the War of 1812:...
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