Lobster Fishing

A Lobster Boat Unloading At Victoria Beach Wharf, Nova Scotia

Lobster fishing is Canada's most valuable seafood market bringing in 1 billion dollars in export sales yearly. Nova Scotia is a big part of this selling lobster to 55 different countries around the world.


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A freak apple was discovered by Mr. Collins, Annapolis Royal in 1921 from one of his apple trees. The apple was clearly one half gravenstien and the other half deep red, the colour was perfectly marked from stalk to pit.

Before the Digby Scallop Days festival, Digby used to celebrate the Digby Fishermen's Regatta, started in 1911.

Horton Academy was established in Wolfville in 1828 and it was the forerunner of Acadia University.

Born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia Abraham Gesner is responsible for inventing kerosene.

Despite 15-foot snow banks in 1953 migratory yellow grosbeaks have touched down at their old feeding grounds here.

The famous Nova Scotia schooner "the Bluenose" was featured on a blue 13 cent stamp in 1935.

Deported Acadians that ended up in Louisiana are often referred to as "Cajuns".

In 1923 traffic on Nova Scotian roads switch from driving on the left to the right hand side of the road.

Charles Fenerty, a lumberman's son from Sackville, Nova Scotia was the first to discover how to make paper from ground pulp.

In the summer we can't wait for a bowl of "Hodge Podge" which is made with all new vegetables from the garden.

People in the Grand Banks fishery industry are away from home for days or weeks at a time and are referred to as "Bankers".

April of 2003 saw the worst flooding on record in the Annapolis Valley. Heavy rains over a long period of time combined with spring thaw managed to knock out 47 bridges and 200 roads in Nova Scotia.

Sam Langford originally from Weymouth Falls was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. He was known as the "Boston Bonecrusher," "Boston Terror" and, his most infamous nickname, the "Boston Tar Baby."

In 1924 hotels and homes received their supply of ice from horse and wagon teams, brought in from the lakes.

In the early 1800s the Gates family had a plant at Port George where they made their Doctor's Home Remedies

Although it is now worn down by millions of years of erosion, the North Mountain once towered higher than the Rocky Mountains.

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