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...left M.I.T. for a teaching job that paid better-$2,000 a year-at Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University in Halifax. When he arrived in Halifax, aged 22, he was almost broke and had to borrow $100 to tide him over until his first payday. One of his colleagues recalls: "He was a typical good young M.I.T. graduate-vital, clean-cut, tireless, very, very fit, and very, very pleasant." He was also a good teacher...
...Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners offered him the job of chief engineer. Howe declined: "No, thanks. I've never seen a grain elevator." But when the offer was renewed, Howe took out his Canadian citizenship papers* and left Nova Scotia for the West...
...variety, are "purebred" or "standardbred." Racing harness horses, pacers or trotters are standardbreds, no matter how much thoroughbred blood may have been used in that breed's creation. All dogs which are not cross-breds or mongrels, but members of established recognized breeds, are purebred. So if . . . the Nova Scotian duck tollers are thoroughbreds, they can only be horses, not dogs, however cunning their disguise...
Before dawn one day last week, a hunting party of five men sloshed through the rain-soaked woods of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia with their two Little River duck dogs, Dusty and Tootsie. At the rocky shore of Lake Mestock the party divided, settled down to wait in their spruce and fern blinds on opposite sides of the lake. They didn't have to wait long. Just after 8 o'clock a flock of nearly 200 ducks circled over the lake and landed on the water some 1,000 yards off the west shore...
Even before the official recognition of the Canadian Kennel Club, the Little River dogs had developed into essentially a "pure" breed. They had been mated only with their own type for generations. Now the standard Nova Scotia tolling dogs are about 18 inches high, have thick, high-riding tails, and are the color of a red fox. Beneath their silky coat is an undercoat that makes their fur almost water-repellent. Brought up in most cases among the domesticated ducks of Yarmouth County's farms, they seldom lose control while tolling. They never bark before a shot is fired...