Halifax

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No other city in Canada has held the strategic
position of Halifax throughout its long history.
In HALIFAX WARDEN OF THE NORTH, Thomas
H. Raddall revises and updates his own earlier
account of the city. This is a history which in-
cludes heroism, scoundrelism, and romance,
a history of the city called by Kipling and
proved by time to be "Warden of the Honor
of the North."
Halifax began with a group of Indians called
Micmac. This whimsical tribe of nature wor-
shippers had a queer mythology about their
God-whose name actually meant "fibber,"-
and one of the legends ran that some day a
race of pale-faced strangers would come out
of the sunrise to rule them and the lands that
had been theirs.
In 1497 John Cabot arrived. After him
came European fishermen who pushed on to
the Grand Banks, then Samuel de Champlain;
Father Louis Peter Thury, the first mission-
ary; and finally a new French governor,
Jacques François de Brouillan. He realized
the unusually fine... Tovább

Fülszöveg

No other city in Canada has held the strategic
position of Halifax throughout its long history.
In HALIFAX WARDEN OF THE NORTH, Thomas
H. Raddall revises and updates his own earlier
account of the city. This is a history which in-
cludes heroism, scoundrelism, and romance,
a history of the city called by Kipling and
proved by time to be "Warden of the Honor
of the North."
Halifax began with a group of Indians called
Micmac. This whimsical tribe of nature wor-
shippers had a queer mythology about their
God-whose name actually meant "fibber,"-
and one of the legends ran that some day a
race of pale-faced strangers would come out
of the sunrise to rule them and the lands that
had been theirs.
In 1497 John Cabot arrived. After him
came European fishermen who pushed on to
the Grand Banks, then Samuel de Champlain;
Father Louis Peter Thury, the first mission-
ary; and finally a new French governor,
Jacques François de Brouillan. He realized
the unusually fine location the settlement
would make and said, "This port is one of the
finest that nature could form."
This is an authoritative book about a city
blessed and cursed by her location, a city
gravely important to the British, French, and
Americans, through wars and peace, but one
that also holds the world's record for sailors'
pleasures. Life is different now in Halifax,
but the green cone of Citadel Hill still remains
the finest watchpost of the old fortress. The
present, fully revised edition brings the city's
fascinating story completely up-to-date. Vissza