scholarly journals Farm-cottage, camp and canoe in maritime Canada : or, The call of Nova Scotia to the emigrant and sportsman / by Arthur P. Silver. With an introduction by the Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona & Mount Royal... With 97 illustrations, mainly from photographs. --

1908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Peters Silver
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Maritime Canada

Pollen evidence for the postglacial origins of Nova Scotia's forests

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1163-1179 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Green
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
New England ◽  
Ice Sheets ◽  
Arrival Times ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
Pollen Diagrams ◽  
Propagule Dispersal ◽  
Coastal Shelf ◽  
Maritime Canada

Pollen diagrams from sites in southwest Nova Scotia and close to the New Brunswick – Nova Scotia border show that after retreat of the Wisconsin ice sheets, most tree taxa arrived in the extreme southwest of Nova Scotia earlier than anywhere else in the province. For most tree taxa, arrival times at sites in maritime Canada and in northeastern New England are consistent with very early dispersal of individuals along the coastal strip via the exposed coastal shelf and with their entering Nova Scotia from the southwest. These scattered pioneer populations acted as centres for major population expansions, which followed much later in some cases. Local environments, fire, and interspecies competition appear to have been more important than propagule dispersal rates as factors limiting the spread of most taxa.

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.

Biting flies of the eastern Maritime Provinces of Canada. I. Tabanidae

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 1493-1503 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Lewis ◽  
Gordon F. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Feeding Habits ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Maritime Provinces ◽  
Horse Flies ◽  
Maritime Canada ◽  
Horse Fly

Fifty-seven species of Tabanidae are recorded from maritime Canada. Thirty-one species have been collected during the period 1973–1976 in the Maritime Provinces, particularly in the Nova Scotia–New Brunswick border region. Larval and pupal habitats were not determined. Feeding habits of 20 species of tabanids were determined; 15 species were collected feeding on man, and 9 species feeding on cattle. Chrysops mitis was the most abundant deer fly and accounted for 14.5% of the tabanid population, 37.1% of the deer flies collected, and 52.6% of the deer flies feeding on man. Hybomitra epistates was the most abundant tabanid; it comprised 19.7% of the tabanids collected and 32.6% of the Hybomitra population. Hybomitra frontalis was the most abundant horse fly feeding on man, and comprised 74.2% of this group. Chrysops frigidus accounted for 42.9% of the deer flies feeding on cattle, while H. typhus Form A accounted for 50% of the horse flies feeding on cattle. Hybomitra illota was the most abundant tabanid collected in tabanid traps. Generally, species of Chrysops were more annoying to man while species of Hybomitra were more of a pest of cattle. Specimens of Tabanus were uncommon.

scholarly journals Lobster Tales: Narratives of Food, Past, and Place in Maritime Canada

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Diane Tye
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Maritime Provinces ◽  
Real Place ◽  
Contested Meanings ◽  
Maritime Canada ◽  
The Right

In Canada’s Maritime Provinces, lobster is the food of tourism. Featured in countless guidebooks, cookbooks and restaurant ads, lobster beckons visitors to the region. Later, represented in as many forms as souvenirs, it signifies their trip, offering tangible proof that they have experienced–and tasted–the “real” place. However, as George Lewis (1989) argues is the case in Maine, residents of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have their own understandings. Here I explore two generalized narratives widespread in Maritime oral tradition: that lobster was used by farmers as fertilizer on fields and that its consumption once was associated with shame, signaling as it did that a family had nothing else to eat. In considering the contested meanings surrounding lobster’s recontextualization from a food of poverty to a regional delicacy, I suggest that Maritimers’ knowledge of lobster’s earlier working class associations, as well as of the “right” way to cook and eat lobster, acts not only as a marker of socio-economic difference but as an indicator of Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of distinction (1984) that is intricately linked to constructions of regional identity.

Karst-related outliers of the Cretaceous Chaswood Formation of Maritime Canada

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 619-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard J Falcon-Lang ◽  
Robert A Fensome ◽  
Martin R Gibling ◽  
Joanne Malcolm ◽  
Kerilyn R Fletcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Hydrological Regime ◽  
Tropical Climate ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Vegetation Analysis ◽  
Maritime Canada ◽  
Surrounding Landscape

The Lower Cretaceous Chaswood Formation is a terrestrial deposit preserved as scattered outcrops across Maritime Canada. Here we describe newly recognized outliers of the Chaswood Formation near Windsor, Nova Scotia. A Cretaceous age is confirmed only in Bailey Quarry, where sediments are provisionally assigned a Valanginian–Hauterivian (140–130 Ma) age based on palynology, making them among the oldest known deposits of the Chaswood Formation. At three nearby sites, putative Cretaceous sediments are recognized based on similar geological context, facies, and petrography; however, their age cannot be confirmed because sediments either lack palynomorphs or contain equivocal assemblages. Although the Chaswood Formation has been previously documented mainly in small tectonically generated basins, these new-found deposits are fluvial sands and gravels, and lacustrine or floodplain clays associated with a karstified gypsum surface developed on the Carboniferous Windsor Group. Deposits are preserved in karst valleys, sinkholes, and fissures, locally up to 36 m below the paleosurface. Although occupying a karstic setting, sediments were evidently deposited in a through-flowing drainage system because they are quartz-rich and show petrographic similarity to basinal deposits elsewhere. Abundant plant material, including lignite, charcoal, cuticles, and palynomorphs, implies that the surrounding landscape was covered by fire-prone forests of conifers, ginkgos, bennettites, cycads, ferns, and lycopods — typical pre-angiosperm Mesozoic vegetation. Analysis of growth patterns in fossil woods, combined with lithological indicators, suggest a humid, tropical climate, punctuated by aperiodic droughts that may have been accentuated under a karstic hydrological regime.

A midge-based late-glacial temperature reconstruction from southwestern Nova Scotia

2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 2051-2057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwen S Whitney ◽  
Jessie H Vincent ◽  
Les C Cwynar
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
Temperature Reconstruction ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Organic Content ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Quantitative Reconstruction ◽  
Late Glacial Period ◽  
Maritime Canada ◽  
Glacial Climate

We present a quantitative reconstruction of the thermal regime spanning the late-glacial period of Nova Scotia (14 700 to 11 600 BP) as inferred by analyzing fossil midges from a small lake (Lac à Magie) in southwestern Nova Scotia. The GS-1 event (equivalent to the Younger Dryas, dating from 12 700 to 11 600 BP in Maritime Canada) was marked by a 5 °C decline in inferred mean July surface-water temperatures and a 15% drop in organic content. Previous pollen and plant macrofossil analyses of this site demonstrate a response of vegetation to GS-1 cooling. These data, coupled with a midge-inferred temperature reconstruction from a nearby site, suggest that late-glacial climate change was less pronounced in southern Nova Scotia than in other sites in Maritime Canada and adjacent eastern North America.

scholarly journals Erythrism in Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) in Maritime Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-45
Author(s):  
Donald F. McAlpine ◽  
John Gilhen
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Colour Morph ◽  
Rare Form ◽  
Pseudacris Crucifer ◽  
Maritime Canada

We document three cases of erythrism in Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Although the source of erythrism in Maritime P. crucifer remains uncertain, the occurrences reported here demonstrate this colour morph to be a widespread, although apparently rare, form in the Canadian Maritimes region.

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