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...flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week. Ontario's problem was whether or not to retain the Conservative Government of Premier George Howard Ferguson and in particular his beloved L. C. A. (Liquor Control Act) under which government liquor stores dole out their wares to the relief of the citizenry, to an annual profit of some $20,000,000 for the Provincial Treasury. Canadian Drys, Ontario Liberals and Progressives cried out against "Conservative wetness and corruption." Premier Ferguson pleaded chiefly, and successfully...
...Nova Scotia, Premier Edgar Nelson Rhodes posed two liquorish problems: No. 1: Are you in favor of the retention of the Nova Scotia Temperance Act? No. 2: Are you in favor of the sale of liquor† under government control...
Thousands of logical Nova Scotians answered only one question, evidently felt that in so doing they had answered the other by implication. Despite all confusion, results showed a clear Wet majority on both questions. In beaming anticipation of liquor-tax funds for his treasury. Premier Rhodes exulted...
...boat. Still no answer. Bang, bang went two 4-lb. shells. The vessel still refused to stop or give her name but the searchlight picked up the lettering Shawnee. upon the bow, a name which the Coast Guard knew as that of a rumrunner built a year ago in Nova Scotia. If she was bound from Bermuda to Halifax, she was 400 miles off her course. Coast Guard craft followed...
Three hundred years ago a band of Scotsmen, wearied of ecclesiastical feuds and tyrannous wars, sailed for America. Seeking a climate like their own they landed in Acadia, secured a grant from James I, fought the French, remained at Nova Scotia and colonized. Later some of them moved westward. Today Scottish-Canadians largely people the Dominion...