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    The Burying the Hatchet ceremony (also known as the Governor's Farm ceremony) happened in Nova Scotia on June 25, 1761 and was one of many such ceremonies...
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    Burying the Hatchet ceremony (1761). After the colonial wars, New England Planters and Foreign Protestants immigrated to Nova Scotia. After the American...
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  • of the Americas, though the phrase emerged in English by the 17th century. An early mention of the practice is to an actual hatchet-burying ceremony. Samuel...
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    Pierre Maillard (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    the British and the Mi'kmaq that resulted in the Burying the Hatchet ceremony (Nova Scotia). He was the first Catholic priest in Halifax, Nova Scotia...
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    Watertown Burying the Hatchet ceremony (Nova Scotia) Aboriginal title Texts Alexander Cameron. Power without Law: The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall...
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  • first decision. Burnt Church Crisis Burying the Hatchet ceremony (Nova Scotia) Canadian Aboriginal case law The Canadian Crown and First Nations, Inuit...
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    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...
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    Acadian Villages of Nova Scotia Burying the Hatchet ceremony (1761) Treaty of Paris (1763) – France ceded New France, including Nova Scotia/Acadia to Great...
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    Peace and Friendship Treaties (category History of Nova Scotia)
    understanding of the treaty relationship. At the Burying the Hatchet Ceremony in 1761, Governor of Nova Scotia Jonathan Belcher told the Mi'kmaq that the "Laws will...
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    St. Aspinquid's Chapel (category Nova Scotia articles missing geocoordinate data)
    the feast is reported to have ceased until after the Burying of the Hatchet Ceremony (1761). Oral tradition indicates Michael Francklin convinced the...
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    Spring Garden Road, Halifax (category Communities in Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    1761, a “Burying of the Hatchet Ceremony” was held at Governor Jonathan Belcher’s garden on present-day Spring Garden Road in front of the Court House...
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    Richard Bulkeley (civil servant) (category Governors of the Colony of Nova Scotia)
    negotiate the peace treaties that led to the Burying the Hatchet ceremony, which ended 75 years of warfare between the Mi'kmaq and the British. In the 1780s...
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    Jonathan Belcher (jurist) (category Governors of the Colony of Nova Scotia)
    He negotiated the peace that led to the Burying the Hatchet ceremony in Nova Scotia. Belcher was a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected...
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    The battle was the last major engagement of the Mi'kmaq and Acadian militias before the Burying of the Hatchet Ceremony between the Mi'kmaq and the British...
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    Groundhog Day (category Public holidays in the United States)
    Murmeltiertag; Nova Scotia: Daks Day) is a tradition observed regionally in the United States and Canada on February 2 of every year. It derives from the Pennsylvania...
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    ended with the signing of the Halifax Treaties in 1760 and 1761, and the Burying the Hatchet ceremony in 1761. In 1749 the capital of Nova Scotia moved from...
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    John Henry Bastide (category Pre-Confederation Nova Scotia people)
    significant role in the early history of Nova Scotia. He was the chief engineer at both of the sieges of Louisbourg (1745 and 1758) and the siege of Minorca...
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    Canada (the Great Lakes region, the Ohio Valley, and the St. Lawrence River Valley), Acadia (the Gaspé Peninsula, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, St. John's...
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  • First Nations people and the British in Halifax, Nova Scotia, notably in the Burying the Hatchet ceremony on 25 June. James Macpherson's supposed translation...
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    The British naval fort at Halifax is founded on mainland Nova Scotia as a defense against the New France Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island,...
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    and Indian allies to ambush them. During the ambush, French forces were killed outright with muskets and hatchets, including French commander Joseph Coulon...
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    Miꞌkmaq, other First Nations people and the British in Halifax, Nova Scotia, notably in the Burying the Hatchet ceremony on June 25. In Dutch Guyana, a "state"...
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  • Jersey. He is a former sailor of the United States Navy and spent time in Halifax, Nova Scotia at CFB Halifax during the war. Although he is semi-retired...
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    tag team match main event. The Canada vs. U.S. rivalry escalated on the July 21 episode of Raw Is War in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Bret, Owen, and Davey...
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  • members and 100+ affiliates in the city. The Gate Keepers Motorcycle Club, a Hells Angels support club with chapters in Nova Scotia and Ontario, also have two...
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  • watch list". January 20, 2016. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. "NYC police say hatchet attack by Islam convert was terrorism October...
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    Interview with them for delivering these Presents, for burying the Hatchet, and for renewing the Covenant Chain with them." October 31 – Virginia Lieutenant...
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    as a precaution. Nova Scotia's legislature, sitting that day, restricted access in the public gallery to the press and staff of the government and political...
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    native chiefs. The French engaged in many Aboriginal gestures of peace, including the burying of hatchets, the exchange of wampum belts, and the use of peace...
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    1740s (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    of Nova Scotia. The flotilla of 80 military transports and 18 armed escorts is scattered by a storm, but the first troops disembark at Canso, Nova Scotia...
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