scholarly journals Urban representations of african Nova Scotia: the reconquest of space in George Elliott Clarke’s Red

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Miasol Eguíbar Holgado Holgado
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Urban Representations ◽  
African Community ◽  
George Elliott Clarke ◽  
Nova Scotian

This paper explores a series of five poems from the collection Red (2011) by Nova Scotian writer George Elliott Clarke. It focuses on the central role that place, and more specifically, urban space, plays in the construction of the region he significantly renames “Africadia”, from the perspective of the black community. Although people of African descent have lived in the island since the seventeenth century –forming the vastest African community in Canada– this presence tends to be unacknowledged or deliberately erased –as is the case of the razing of the neighbourhood of Africville–. In these poems, Clarke vindicates this denied space, imbuing it with the lives and experiences of its Africadian inhabitants.

scholarly journals A Call for Change in the Public Education System in Nova Scotia

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. CI64-CI92
Author(s):  
Barbara-Ann Hamilton-Hinch ◽  
Jessie-Lee D. McIsaac ◽  
Mary-Jane Harkins ◽  
Sherry Jarvis ◽  
John C. LeBlanc
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
African Descent ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Black Learners ◽  
Nova Scotian

The United Nation’s International Decade for People of African Descent and Nova Scotia’s Ministry of African Nova Scotian Affairs recognize that students of African descent continue to experience inequities. As previous studies indicate, parents of Black learners identified that many educators lack knowledge and experience in understanding students of African descent.This study explored student achievement from the perspective of parents of children of African descent attending public schools in Nova Scotia. Participants included individual interviews and focus groups with parents from rural and urban areas. Based on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory framework, a thematic analysis of the data was conducted, a dominant storyline related to the families’ experiences in school and subsequent themes emerged: we are treated differently; we don’t feel connected; we know there are challenges: the resistance of parents; and we deal with injustices but persevere. These findings provide recommendations to improve the educational success for Black learners. Keywords: African Canadian, academic achievement and success, Black students, education, schooling challenges, students of African descent

Alternative environment activities on both sides of the Atlantic: A Canada-Ireland consideration and comparison

2021 ◽  
pp. 1356336X2098588
Author(s):  
Daniel B Robinson ◽  
Nathan Hall ◽  
José da Costa ◽  
Brent Bradford
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
Comparative Investigation ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Traditional Sports ◽  
Development Participation ◽  
Ice Water ◽  
Nova Scotian

Due to the overemphasis of traditional sports at the expense of other movement domains in physical education (PE) programmes, there is a need to consider what factors might enable or limit PE teachers’ incorporation of some of these other domains that can support student learning. The focus of this article is on one such marginalized domain – alternative environment activities (AEAs). AEAs can afford students a breadth of opportunities for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in different environments (i.e. land, snow and ice, water, air) and improve environmental awareness and stewardship. This article reports on a comparative investigation of Nova Scotian (Canadian) and Irish PE teachers’ incorporation of AEAs in their PE programmes. To understand what similarities or differences might exist with respect to these PE teachers’ incorporation of AEAs, along with existing enablers and barriers, a self-selected sample of current PE teachers (Nova Scotia = 53; Ireland = 64) completed a 22-item online questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were employed to conduct comparisons among the two data sets. PE teachers’ understandings of curricular requirements for AEAs were found to be an issue in both Nova Scotia and Ireland. Reported significant differences include: AEA-related professional development participation; most important factors for deciding not to include AEAs; and feelings of school administrative support towards AEA incorporation. Findings also suggest that various issues may be hindering incorporation of AEAs in PE programmes, and that some of these issues do differ based on where the PE programme is situated.

Eighteenth-Century Sierra Leone English

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
American English ◽  
African American English ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nova Scotian

This essay examines the language of an expatriate community as found in letters and petitions written by African Americans who migrated to Sierra Leone by way of Nova Scotia in 1792. These documents provide some of the earliest first-hand evidence of African American English and contribute to debates about the history of that variety. The paper compares selected grammatical features in that variety to modern-day African Nova Scotian English for insights to the history of African American English and develops a case for the principled use of manuscript documents for reconstructing earlier stages of colloquial English.

STUDIES ON THE APOIDEA OF WESTERN NOVA SCOTIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VISITORS TO APPLE BLOOM

1933 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 443-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Atwood
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Pupal Stage ◽  
Simple Type ◽  
Nest Construction ◽  
Wild Bees ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Nova Scotian

This paper describes the results of studies on the wild bees of Nova Scotia, which were carried out in connection with apple pollination investigations in the Annapolis-Cornwallis Valley, Nova Scotia.The biology of the Apoidea in general is reviewed from the literature, and a list of bees taken on apple bloom is given. As the members of the genera Halictus and Andrena were found to be the most important native pollinators, the greater part of the paper is devoted to accounts of the habits and life histories of representative species.The members of the genus Andrena were found to have a simple type, such as is generally found among solitary bees. The females provision the nest and then die; the larvae develop to the pupal stage in their underground cells, then emerge as adults the following season. All Nova Scotian species studied were one-generation forms.The bees of the genus Halictus show a primitive social organization, more complex in some species than in others. The first brood consists of females only, which are apparently sterile and work at nest construction, the gathering of pollen, etc. They are followed later in the season by a brood of males and females; these females, after being fertilized, hibernate for the winter, while the males die in the fall. The hibernating habits of different species are described, and notes are given on some parasites and inquilines of the two genera.

Ecumenical Burial Societies in South Africa: Mutual Caring and Support that Transcends Ecclesiastical and Religious Differences

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-472
Author(s):  
Gerhardus C. Oosthuizen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
African Community ◽  
First Time ◽  
Christian Message ◽  
Religious Differences

Burial societies play a significant role in the African community in South Africa. Even in the most deprived circumstances, Africans concern themselves with burials of dear ones worthy of the person and the occasion. The sense of mutual support which has always been foremost in the African community comes to expression within the context of the burial societies. Each burial society is a mutual aid organization. Each member contributes towards this communal assistance. In no other organization associated with the churches are denominational and ecclesiastical barriers of so little concern as in the context of these burial societies. Here many non-Christians receive for the first time the Christian message. A few thousand such burial clubs or societies exist in South Africa, with several million members from South Africa's black community.

scholarly journals The city in Soviet Lithuanian cinema

Menotyra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilona Vitkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Urban Representations ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
Mother Figures ◽  
The City

The article analyzes urban representations of Soviet-era Lithuanian cinema. Like any other object of reality, the city in cinema is a secondary reality, the fruit of artistic interpretation. At the same time, images of the city in film can reflect individual and collective consciousness of the period. The analysis of urban space of Lithuanian feature cinema reveals that cinematographic space can be treated as a composite construct, which creates and represents projections of identities and feelings, reflects demands, ideas, cinema fashions of its time and “hides” real sociocultural and sociopolitical discourses. Most of Soviet-style feature films much easier incorporate countryside spaces, images, landscapes and lifestyle. Meanwhile the city often not only creates an impression of a claustrophobic space, but even looks very decorative. It seems that most of filmmakers can’t identify cities with their own, Lithuanian, national living space. In search of identity or inspiration they turn to idealized village, agrarian culture and its images. Therefore, the city of Soviet Lithuanian cinema is more likely to become a space of collapsed hopes, prison, ideological repressive space, which is stuck between the present and the past. Filmmakers, like their characters, run to the shelter of nature, the mythologized, well-decorated farmstead, where archetypal father and mother figures or a calm, meditative landscape await. It seems that movie characters (and filmmakers), who have escaped from the socialist reality and its challenges to the landscapes of nature and village, have never returned.

Thermal history and subsidence of rifted continental margins—evidence from wells on the Nova Scotian and Labrador Shelves

1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Keen
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Time History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tectonic Subsidence ◽  
Continental Margins ◽  
Thermal Cooling ◽  
Nova Scotian ◽  
Temperature Time ◽  
Good Agreement ◽  
Cooling Model

The subsidence histories of the Labrador and Nova Scotian rifted continental margins have been determined from biostratigraphic data for 11 deep exploratory wells off Nova Scotia, for five wells off Labrador, for three wells northeast of Newfoundland, and for one well off the northeast coast of the United States of America. The components of subsidence, due to sediment loading, and when possible due to loading by changes in eustatic sea level, were removed, leaving that part of the subsidence, the tectonic subsidence, caused by cooling of the lithosphere or by other deep seated processes. The thermal cooling model theoretically predicts a linear relationship between tectonic subsidence and t½, where t is the time since subsidence began. This relationship should be obeyed during the first tens of Ma of subsidence. The slope of this curve depends upon the temperature to which the crust and upper mantle were heated during the initial rifting stage and can be used to derive the temperature–time history within the sediments, the present temperature distribution, and geothermal gradient. The data show that the observed subsidence curves behave in accordance with the thermal cooling model, at least during the first 80 Ma after subsidence began and obey the equation y = 300(± 80)t1/2 m, where y is the tectonic subsidence. The slopes of the subsidence curves are similar for the Labrador Shelf, the Nova Scotian Shelf, and the shelf off the northeastern U.S.A. More rapid and variable subsidence occurs northeast of Newfoundland and this may be associated, in a way yet to be established, with the anomalous foundered continental crust near the Orphan Knoll and Flemish Cap micro-continents which lie close to this area. After about 80 Ma, the subsidence appears to depart from the linear t1/2 law in a manner similar to the subsidence curves for oceanic crust, but this is not well established by the data. The present temperatures and temperature gradients computed using the slope of the subsidence curves show good agreement with measured values; geothermal gradients of 17.5 °C km−1 and 26 °C km−1 are calculated off Nova Scotia and Labrador respectively, and mean values of about 23 °C km−1 are observed. The computed temperature–time history within the sediments was used to estimate values of vitrinite reflectance, an indicator of the degree of organic metamorphism. These values show reasonable agreement with the measured values and suggest that only the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments off Nova Scotia and the Paleocene sediments off Labrador are sufficiently mature to be good sources of petroleum. The linear t1/2 behaviour of the subsidence, and the good agreement between predicted and observed temperatures support the contention that cooling is largely responsible for the observed tectonic subsidence. The similarity of results from different areas suggests that the usefulness of the method is not restricted to a particular geographical area and may be applied to other rifted continental margins. Comparisons between the subsidence rates, thermal histories, and crustal structure at rifted margins on a worldwide scale may provide insights concerning the processes controlling their development. The temperature–time histories of the sediments estimated from the subsidence may be useful in establishing the potential of a rifted margin area for petroleum generation when little other information is available.

Shifting Paradigms: Nova Scotia and ‘New’ Scotland

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-79
Author(s):  
Kirsten Sandrock
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Internal Colonialism ◽  
Empire Building

The present chapter traces the emergence of Scottish Atlantic writing in the seventeenth century by focusing on works from the 1620s that promote the colonization of Nova Scotia. It studies works written by James VI and I, William Alexander, Robert Gordon, Thomas Hariott, and Richard Guthry while also discussing the role the Virginia Company and the indigenous Mi'kmaq and Maliseet populations played in Scotland's attempts to colonize Nova Scotia. It situates these agents and works in the larger contexts of European empire-building. It also considers forms of internal colonialism in the British Isles, including writings about the Highlands and Islands and inner-British power dynamics after the Union of Crowns. The utopian tradition offers ways to understanding the spaces, temporalities, and cultural agents in the emerging Scottish Atlantic, including the tropes of newness and reform as well as the intertextual relationships with earlier travelogues and the longevity of the Scottish colonial imagination.

In Search of Henry Alexander Saturnin Hartley, Black Classicist, Clergyman, and Physician

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Michele Valerie Ronnick
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
South America ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Atlantic Seaboard ◽  
History Of ◽  
Maritime Canada ◽  
Page Book ◽  
The U.S

The multifaceted career of Henry Alexander Saturnin Hartley (1861–1934) has been almost entirely overlooked by scholars. It however offers us a window into the way the study of classics traveled up and down the Atlantic seaboard and through the Americas. His peripatetic life which took him from Trinidad, to Paris, to maritime Canada, to South America and also to parts of the U.S. figures into the larger history of black classicism when knowledge of classical languages was a “currency” of its own. His 134-page book Classical Translations (Nova Scotia, 1889) was a singular achievement. It is the first book of translations taken from the literature of ancient Greece and Rome that was written and published by a person of African descent in the western hemisphere.

scholarly journals Evidence for the Collection of a Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) in Nova Scotia During the 19th Century and its Association with the McCulloch Collection of Birds

2013 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 328
Author(s):  
Eric L. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Egretta Rufescens ◽  
Annapolis Valley ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Nova Scotian ◽  
Lines Of Evidence ◽  
Thomas Mcculloch

Based on several lines of evidence, a specimen of an adult white-morph Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) now on display in the Macdonald Museum of the Annapolis Valley Historical Society in Middleton, Nova Scotia, probably originated from the 19th-century Nova Scotian bird collections of Thomas McCulloch senior (1776–1843) and his son Thomas (1809–1865), likely between 1838 and 1865. The only other records of this species in Canada are sightings in Nova Scotia in 1965 and 1966. This may therefore be the first specimen evidence of the species in Nova Scotia and Canada. Historical evidence links the specimen with the McCulloch collection of birds, part of which has survived at Dalhousie University.

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