Download or read book How to Talk Nova Scotian written by Vernon Oickle and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nova Scotia is blessed with a rich language. It is littered with words and expressions that vary from county to county, and town to town. From "hodge-podge," to "blowin' a gale," "bed lunch," "slippy," "fill yer boots," and "right some good", Nova Scotia Slang will introduce you to a whole new language.
Download or read book Fruit Growers Association and International Show Society of Nova Scotia written by Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Association and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book True Stories from Nova Scotia s Past written by Dianne Marshall and published by Formac Publishing Company Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CBC Radio's Information Morning history columnist Dianne Marshall is well known for the lively and surprising true stories she tells about Nova Scotia's past. Now the best of them have been gathered together in this enjoyable book. The stories cover 250 years of Nova Scotia history, often featuring people who don't make it into conventional history books. These incredible accounts include: the plot to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln using germ warfare, hatched by several prominent Halifax businessmen and a visiting American doctor; a posse of 1,000 armed men swarming the city after a burglary, firing so many shots that some First World War vets thought war had broken out at home; and the story of Halifax madam Julia Donovan, whose prison term for keeping a bawdy house was commuted to a $100 fine in return for her work to elect the city's next mayor. Other stories in the collection feature characters from rum-running days at Smuggler's Cove in Digby County, and ghost-busters in Antigonish County. Dianne Marshall has an eye for character, a firm knowledge of historical context and a focus on what makes a good story. She brings many ordinary Nova Scotians with extraordinary experiences back to life in this readable collection.
Download or read book Art Language International written by Robert Bailey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Art & Language International Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of the conceptual art collective Art & Language, situating it in a geographical context to rethink its implications for the broader histories of contemporary art. Focusing on its international collaborations with dozens of artists and critics in and outside the collective between 1969 and 1977, Bailey positions Art & Language at the center of a historical shift from Euro-American modernism to a global contemporary art. He documents the collective’s growth and reach, from transatlantic discussions on the nature of conceptual art and the establishment of distinct working groups in New York and England to the collective’s later work in Australia, New Zealand, and Yugoslavia. Bailey also details its publications, associations with political organizations, and the internal power struggles that precipitated its breakdown. Analyzing a wide range of artworks, texts, music, and films, he reveals how Art & Language navigated between art worlds to shape the international profile of conceptual art. Above all, Bailey underscores how the group's rigorous and interdisciplinary work provides a gateway to understanding how conceptual art operates as a mode of thinking that exceeds the visual to shape the philosophical, historical, and political.
Download or read book Speaking in the Past Tense written by Herb Wyile and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.” — Herb Wyile, from the Introduction The extermination of the Beothuk ... the exploration of the Arctic ... the experiences of soldiers in the trenches during World War I ... the foibles of Canada’s longest-serving prime minister ... the Ojibway sniper who is credited with 378 wartime kills—these are just some of the people and events discussed in these candid and wide-ranging interviews with eleven authors whose novels are based on events in Canadian history. These sometimes startling conversations take the reader behind the scenes of the novels and into the minds of their authors. Through them we explore the writers’ motives for writing, the challenges they faced in gathering information and presenting it in fictional form, the sometimes hostile reaction they faced after publication, and, perhaps most interestingly, the stories that didn’t make it into their novels. Speaking in the Past Tense provides fascinating insights into the construction of national historical narratives and myths, both those familiar to us and those that are still being written.
Download or read book Descendants of William Aitchison of Scotland and Nova Scotia Canada written by and published by Pine Hill Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Shore Phrase Book written by Lewis Poteet and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected from the talk of the people who live along Nova Scotia's South Shore, from Halifax to Yarmouth on the Atlantic shore, this book is a lively guide to the unusual way they speak. It is both very old, including words and phrases spoken but not written down since before Chaucer, and in a lively way, new and elaborate, like the original, complete version of "happy as a clam." It provides a guide to the life and character of these resilient fisher and farm folk. The work is illustrated with old photographs from the region, and it includes scholarly appendices on "Elizabethan English on Nova Scotia's South Shore" and "Rough Measure in Maritime Dialect Research," the latter written with Jacqueline Baum. The language will bring back vivid memories to those who have visited this scenic Maritime place and attract those who have not, to do so. As the record of a limited speech community, it may help students of English as a Second Language. It has been used by novelists, playwrights, and poets (including Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, Canada's prolific dramatist Paul LeDoux, and George Elliott Clarke, a much-honored black Canadian poet), to give authentic flavor to their works. It will bring joy and insight to all who love language.
Download or read book The Nova Scotia Reports written by Nova Scotia. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island written by James Robertson and published by Edinburgh : John Johnstone. This book was released on 1847 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island from Its Commencement in 1765 written by James ROBERTSON (Minister of Portsburgh Church, Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Let s Visit Nova Scotia Gr 2 4 written by and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Grace Or Scenes in Nova Scotia written by Miss Grove and published by Halifax, N.S. : C. Mackenzie. This book was released on 1846 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author's pedagogical intention is wrapped in a lively family story. As the engagingly curious young heroine, Grace Severn, learns of the particular history, geography, and botany of the colony, she and her reader alike gain an awareness of and sympathy for its diverse population, including Mi'kmaq peoples, Acadian settlers, and African-American slaves and Loyalists, and the role in the settlement of Nova Scotia."--Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman, Picturing Canada, p. 21
Download or read book Travels in Nova Scotia in the Year 1913 written by C.G. Hine and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book The English Language in Nova Scotia written by Lilian Falk and published by Roseway Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we offer you some Patti-pans? Some fungee or lassybread? How about a derasifying padana? Before you absquotilate in a dander, come aboard of this anthology, and explore some of the fascinating ways in which the English language has developed in Nova Scotia. This book covers such topics as pronunciation, semantics, grammatical structures, language contact, dialect features, ethnic and gender roles. nicknames, and place names.
Download or read book Table Talk written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Report of Debates House of Commons written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nova Scotia written by David Orkin and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2009 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most in-depth guide available to Nova Scotia, from picture-postcard favorites to hidden treats.
