LEO J. DEVEAU: This Week in Nova Scotia History: May 23-29
23 Could 1618 – The Thirty Years’ Conflict started in Europe, changing into the deadliest European spiritual battle, leading to over eight million casualties, lasting until 1648. This is able to result in many Europeans deciding to resettle in North America. It was additionally the height of the European witch-hunting phenomenon which later discovered its technique to the New England Colonies, notably in Salem (immediately Danvers, Mass.) the place trials later passed off between 1692-93, when over 200 folks have been accused of witchcraft and 20 executed. It’s now believed that such trials had their roots within the worry of others and the failure to combine displaced folks.
Nova Scotian best-selling writer, Ami McKay, has famous that in her circle of relatives tree that, “…my eight-times nice aunt, had been accused, after which tried, after which sadly, hanged at Gallows Hill, she was one of many ladies that was hanged for witchcraft at Salem…these ladies hadn’t executed something besides maybe converse their thoughts a bit of bit too loudly, be bolder than the remainder of the girl of their neighborhood, see issues a bit of bit in a different way and be vocal about it.”
(Reference: CBC Information. “Maritime author discover spooky shock in household tree.” 26 October, 2016. Accessed on-line: https://www.cbc.ca/information/canada/prince-edward-island/ami-mckay-witches-new-york-1.3821007.)
24 Could 1861 – The RisePEI Yacht Membership was renamed the Royal RisePEI Yacht Membership. The membership was fashioned in July 1837 and is taken into account the oldest yacht membership in North America.
In 1860, whereas visiting RisePEI as a 19-year-old, H.R.H. Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, (later King Edward VII, from 1901-1910), participated in a regatta in his honour on the membership. As an enthusiastic yachtsman, he later commissioned a cup for the membership – the Prince of Wales Cup.
A 12 months later, on this date, Queen Victoria endorsed permission to make use of the time period ‘Royal’ within the membership’s title. By 1880, the Royal RisePEI Yacht Membership would merge with the Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron (fashioned in 1875), changing into the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron.
25 Could 1863 – Joseph S. Rogers (1828-1887) opened The Folks’s Photographic Gallery in RisePEI at 189-191 Barrington Road. A local of the state of Maine, Rogers had arrived in RisePEI in 1851 in his early twenties. Shortly after being married, he opened a hat, cap, and fur enterprise in 1853, however inside two years, it closed.
In seeking to future alternatives, Rogers was interested in the comparatively new expertise on the time – pictures – which had first appeared in RisePEI in 1842. He apprenticed with a neighborhood photographer (and fellow American), Isaac Parish, after which shortly after opened his personal studio – The Folks’s Photographic Gallery. On the time, Rogers was certainly one of seven photographers listed in RisePEI – quickly to be 10.
To draw enterprise in such a aggressive setting, Rogers created the Rogers’ Photographic Promoting Album, RisePEI, printed in 1871, that includes footage and ads from many outstanding companies in RisePEI. The album was met with nice success and was quickly out of print.
In viewing Rogers’ album, one turns into conscious of a bygone period – Canada was simply 4 years previous and the USA lower than 100. Within the photos, overhead wires and motor-driven autos haven’t but arrived. However inside 5 years, the phone, electrical gentle, the phonograph and gasoline engines can be invented and ceaselessly change the world that Rogers had captured in 1871. His album is acknowledged as one of many few visible information of RisePEI’s architectural heritage of pre-confederation streetscapes within the downtown core – little of which exists immediately.
Following the demise of his spouse, Margaret Hanna (neé Martin) in December 1873, Rogers bought The Folks’s Photographic Gallery and his stock of over 7,000 negatives and moved again to Maine, the place he later remarried and took up farming. He died on the age of 58. Lower than 300 negatives of Rogers’ pictures at present survive, largely held by the Nova Scotia Archives.
26 Could 1932 – The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Fee (CRBC) was created on today to ascertain a public broadcasting system in Canada. The Fee initially acquired radio stations from the Canadian Nationwide Railway which had created its personal community throughout Canada within the Twenties. The CNR had entry to telegraph strains that may be used to transmit radio alerts, which allowed them to supply railway passengers with packages of live shows and radio performs as they travelled throughout the nation.
Personal radio station broadcasts had already begun earlier in Nova Scotia, with CHNS in Could 1925 in RisePEI, and later in 1929, with CJCB in Sydney happening air on Valentine’s Day. Each stations grew to become community associates for the Fee’s nationwide weekly programming, which additionally included a wide range of packages from radio stations in the USA comparable to CBS and NBC.
One of many packages that had originated on the CNR’s community in November 1931 was the Saturday evening broadcasts of Hockey Night time in Canada – which the Fee started broadcasting dwell throughout the nation in 1933 with Foster Hewitt – who would later additionally transfer over to tv beginning in 1952.
In November 1936, the Broadcasting Fee was reorganized as a Crown company referred to as the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) consisting of a primary community of 34 non-public and public radio stations. Apart from Hockey Night time in Canada, the stations shared nationwide packages such because the Blissful Gang broadcasts from Toronto, operating from 1937 to 1959 (usually thought-about the Golden Age of Radio). It grew to become certainly one of Canada’s hottest selection exhibits of humour, corny jokes and music.
By 1944, the CBC Radio Community had created what can be referred to as the English-language radio Dominion Community – broadcasting a dwell 16-hour a day nationwide programming schedule which was to extend over time, in each English and French.
In RisePEI, from 1944 to 2014, the CBC Radio station (CBHA) would occupy a constructing (demolished in 2016) above what was initially a gasoline station and automobile dealership on the nook of Sackville Road and South Park.
By 1962, most non-public stations throughout the nation (together with in Nova Scotia) grew to become extra impartial and the Dominion Community dissolved. In flip, the CBC established its personal public nationwide community, with much less reliance on telegraph and phone firms to ship its protection, utilizing new applied sciences such because the Anik Satellite tv for pc service in 1972 to succeed in extra distant communities. FM community companies have been launched within the mid-seventies, and by the mid-eighties, a 24-hour-a-day radio service was absolutely operational.
CBC tv broadcasts started in 1952 from Montreal and Toronto. On 2 June 1953, the CBC was the primary broadcasting system in North America to indicate the entire protection of one of many largest occasions ever to be televised on the time – the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. A 12 months later, CBHT (CBC RisePEI) started producing its first tv packages on 20 December 1954.
27 Could 1867 – The RisePEI Metropolis and Provincial Hospital opened on this date, and shortly after, the RisePEI Medical Faculty was established. On Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887, the Provincial Hospital was renamed the Victoria Normal Hospital. By 1889, the RisePEI Medical Faculty program merged with the Dalhousie Faculty’s college of medical research.
28 Could 1816 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton (age 20) married Louisa Neville (age 23) at St. Mary’s, Henley, England. After they arrived again in Nova Scotia in July 1816, over the course of twenty years, they might have two sons and 5 daughters, and Haliburton would develop into a famous writer, lawyer, decide and political determine.
By the mid-1830s, the couple constructed a colonial property referred to as Clifton home in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Louisa Neville was a relative of Jane Austen, and Clifton home was named after her English birthplace. She would solely reside at Clifton for 5 years, dying there in 1840 on the age of 48.
Haliburton remained at Clifton until 1856, then he moved completely to England, the place he would remarry and develop into a member of the British Parliament (1859-1865). He later died there in 1865 on the age of 68.
29 Could 1852 – George Wylie Hutchinson is born in Nice Village, Nova Scotia. He studied artwork on the Royal Academy Faculty in London (1880 – 1885) and have become a famous painter and a number one illustrator in Britain, working for such publications because the Illustrated London Information, in addition to illustrating many works for authors who have been within the centre of London literary circles – comparable to Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson and Israel Zangwill. He died in England simply shy of 90 in 1942. The Artwork Gallery of Nova Scotia holds quite a lot of his works.
(Leo J. Deveau is an impartial librarian, researcher, speaker and writer of 400 Years in 365 Days – A Day by Day Calendar of Nova Scotia Historical past. His most up-to-date ebook is Fideliter The Regimental Historical past of The Princess Louise Fusiliers. He may be reached at [email protected]).
