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Last weekend, Christians across Nova Scotia and rest of the world celebrated their holiest of days. The Celebration of the Risen Lord and His defeat of death defines their faith.
The holiday began in 1987. Its popularity grew and by 2001 Madonna was strutting in a tiny tartan skirt on her Drowned World tour. It became a Canadian National Holiday in 2011.Premier Angus Macdonald really loved three things. Roads, tourism and Scotland. We broke our lungs in mines, exploded marble and chopped down trees. We built railways. We built the biggest, fastest and best ships.We had union riots. We had military. We were making lawyers and sending Joseph Howes into the world.After the completion of the Cabot Trail, the Scottish identity was the kind of thing to make tourists go “neato.” Writers would visit and write of the strong Scotsmen working in the hills with a French name. In the French village of Cheticamp.
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