scholarly journals Maine’s Mode of Privateering: A Tale of Fraud and Collusion in the Northeast Borderlands, 1812–1815

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
The United States ◽  
British Government ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
War Effort

The American declaration of war passed by Congress in June 1812 was followed by a prize act which authorised the issuing of Letters of marque. These commissions or licenses allowed American citizens to fit out privately armed vessels to seize British ships. Although most privateers complied with Congress’s instructions, their counterparts operating along the Maine coast used their commissions to further own economic self-interest by orchestrating pre-arranged captures with British merchants in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Since the British government encouraged its subjects to trade with the enemy to undermine the American war effort, American privateers assumed most of the risks. Merchants and mariners from as far away as New York and Connecticut traveled to Maine to trade with the British despite the hazards of detection. As these privateers engaged in fraud, other Americans turned to vigilante violence to uncover and foil these schemes. After the British occupied Eastern Maine in the summer of 1814 trading with the enemy became illegal on the British side of the border. Despite the risks, British merchants continued to engage in trade with the enemy. Ultimately, persistence of conflict and accommodation in the Northeastern Borderlands, the area comprising Maine, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, helped undermined Eastern Maine’s allegiance to the United States.

An American Icon Crosses the Pacific

Dearest Lenny ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Mari Yoshihara
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Career ◽  
New York Philharmonic ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
War Effort

Leonard Bernstein’s early career was shaped by the global politics of World War II and its aftermath as well as his interest in the world beyond the United States, his understanding of war, and his dedication to peace. It was also propelled by the United States government’s investment in his background, qualities, and success in its war effort and postwar public relations. The initial encounter of Kazuko Amano (born Ueno) with Bernstein was enabled by the cultural policy of US occupation forces. After her initial fan letter to Bernstein in 1947, she followed his rising career through recordings, broadcasts, and performances and became Japan’s most loyal fan of the maestro, who quickly became an American icon with his appointment as the music director of the New York Philharmonic and the huge success of West Side Story.

William Diller Matthew, 1871 - 1930

1932 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-74 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
The United States ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Vertebrate Palaeontology

William Diller Matthew was the eldest child of Dr. G. E. Matthew, of New Brunswick, an amateur geologist, who, by his great collections and excellent papers, added much to our knowledge of that part of Canada. Dr. Matthew was born on February 19,1871, in St. John, New Brunswick ; throughout his life he retained an interest in this town, visiting it yearly, except when abroad, and retaining his Canadian nationality during nearly forty years’ residence in the United States. Dr. Matthew was introduced to geological methods by his father, and sent at first to the small University of Halifax, whence in 1892 he proceeded to Columbia University as a graduate-student, there studying geology, mineralogy and metallurgy. He graduated Ph.D. in 1895. In that year he was selected by Professor H. F. Osborn, whose classes he had attended, as assistant in the department of Vertebrate Palaeontology in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. In this department he worked for thirty-two years, finally becoming Curator-in-chief of the division of geology, mineralogy and palaeontology.

Phryxe vulgaris (Fall.) (Diptera: Tachinidae), a New Parasite of Pieris rapae (L.) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in Canada

1957 ◽  
Vol 89 (12) ◽  
pp. 546-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Hudon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Pieris Rapae ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Pseudaletia Unipuncta ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Parasitic Larva ◽  
Experimental Plots

In July, 1956, a pupa of the imported cabbageworm, Pieris rapae (L.), was found attached to the undersurface of a corn leaf in experimental plots at St. Jean. After the pupa had been incubated at 75°F. for six months, a dipterous parasitic larva emerged and pupated immediately; a tachinid fly emerged two weeks later. The parasite was identified by Mr. J. G. T. Chillcott, Entomology Division, Ottawa, as Phryxe vulgaris (Fall.). P. vulgaris has been reported as a parasite of Pieris rapae, P. brassicae (L.), P. napi (L.), and Vanessa urticae (L.) from many central and northern European countries (Thompson, 1946, pp. 467-469; 1947, p. 598). Aldrich and Webber (1924), Chittenden (1926), and Schaffner and Griswold (1934) reported this parasite from P. rapae in the United States. P. vulgaris has been reported from Canada only on larvae of the armyworm, Pseudaletia unipuncta (Haw.), in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (Gibson, 1915, p. 14).

Revision of the Nearctic Silusa (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

2003 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Klimaszewski ◽  
Greg Pohl ◽  
Georges Pelletier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Previous Record ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA revision of the Canadian species of the genus Silusa Erichson is presented. In this contribution, we treat six species recently discovered in Canada, one of which is a new species from Alberta, Silusa langori Klimaszewski sp. nov. The distribution records for two species are greatly expanded. Silusa californica Bernhauer is now known from Alaska, Minnesota, Alberta, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia (previous records: British Columbia, California). Silusa vesperis Casey is now known from Washington and British Columbia (previous record: California). For two other species, there are first records for Canada and one new United States state record. Silusa alternans Sachse is now known from Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and New Hampshire (previous records: Georgia, New York), and Silusa densa Fenyes is now known from Alberta (previous record: California). Silusa valens Casey is here considered as a synonym of S. alternans. Silusa rutilans Casey and S. modica Casey are confirmed to belong to Leptusa Kraatz, and both are here considered as new synonyms of Leptusa canonica Casey. Silusa gracilis Sachse and S. nanula Casey are also confirmed to belong to the genus Leptusa. The following lectotypes are newly designated for species described on the basis of syntypes: S. alternans Sachse and S. californica Bernhauer. New data are provided on the systematics, relationships, bionomics, and distribution for all Nearctic species of America north of Mexico. Diagnoses and illustrations of external and genital features are provided for all species, and the distribution of each is discussed and shown on maps. A key to the species occurring in Canada is presented.

scholarly journals Alethopteris and Neuralethopteris from the lower Westphalian (Middle Pennsylvanian) of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Maritime Provinces, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 111-145
Author(s):  
Carmen Álvarez-Vázquez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Maritime Provinces ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
The North

A systematic revision of Alethopteris and Neuralethopteris from upper Namurian and lower Westphalian (Middle Pennsylvanian) strata of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, eastern Canada, has demonstrated the presence of eight species: Alethopteris bertrandii, Alethopteris decurrens, Alethopteris cf. havlenae, Alethopteris urophylla, Alethopteris cf. valida, Neuralethopteris pocahontas, Neuralethopteris schlehanii and Neuralethopteris smithsii. Restudy of the Canadian material has led to new illustrations, observations and refined descriptions of these species. Detailed synonymies focus on records from Canada and the United States. As with other groups reviewed in earlier articles in this series, it is clear that insufficient attention has been paid to material reposited in Canadian institutions in the European literature. The present study emphasizes the similarity of the North American flora with that of western Europe, especially through the synonymies.

XI.—Notes on some North American Pyrrhotites, and other Minerals containing Nickel

1877 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-127
Author(s):  
Henry How
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States

It is a well-known fact that Pyrrhotite, or Magnetic Iron Pryrites, frequently, if not invariably, contains nickel, generally with cobalt in various proportions, amounting together from traces, up to nearly six per cent., and that most of the nickel of commerce is derived from this mineralThe following notes contain in the first place the results of the examination of a few varieties of pyrrhotite, occurring in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the United States, chiefly with reference to presence or amount of nickel and cobalt, and they shew also that remarkable differences exist in the intensity of the magnetism displayed, which ranges from distinct polarity in the mass, down to very iceble attraction by a magnet in the finely powdered state of the mineral, and further, that the most feebly magnetic of the specimens examined is that containing the largest per centage of nickel. The subsequent notes relate to other species from h~ova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Frontierism, Capital, and the American Loyalists in Canada

1979 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Temperley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North America ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
British North America ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
William Cobbett

Everyone agrees that the American Loyalists had a hard time of it. Not only were they on the losing side in a long and cruel war — in their case rendered particularly bitter by virtue of being a civil war — but when hostilities ended they found themselves deprived of possessions, forced into exile, severed from relations and friends, and obliged to adapt to unfamiliar customs and surroundings. For those who took refuge in what remained of British North America, as approximately half of them did — some 40,000 in all — starting over again involved special difficulties. Winters there were long and cold, and the territories in which they found themselves were mostly still in a state of nature, uncultivated, unmapped, and in some cases virtually unexplored. Indeed, how suitable these lands were for settlement was at first by no means clear. “ Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Canada,” observed William Cobbett, who visited the Maritimes shortly after the arrival of the first exiles, “ are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.” This was not entirely true, but it was a notion which must have crossed the minds of many of the refugees themselves as, wintering in their camps, they contemplated the wilderness around them.

scholarly journals A Comparative Overview of the Unbundling of Gas Distribution Services in North America - Lessons for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L. Bhar ◽  
Mark E. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North America ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Gas Distribution ◽  
Distribution Services ◽  
Recent Developments

After a brief introduction to the policy and historical background of the regulation of gas distribution services, the authors review the main issues surrounding the unbundling of such by examining numerous models from Canada and the United States. Particular consideration is given to the effect of unbundling on the small commercial and residential customer. The article concludes with a discussion of unbundling in greenfield jurisdictions and cites recent developments in Scotia and New Brunswick to illustrate legislative to some of the specific issues raised.

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