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- 404 Maritime Patrol Squadron Argus 20727 from 14 Wing Greenwood, N.S., was lost, 96 km off the coast of Puerto Rico during night exercises. All 14 of her crew and two scientists on board died.
However, later in the Nova Scotia election of 22 May 1867, Howe’s Anti-Confederation Party won 36 of the 38 seats. But Charles Tupper was still premier until September 1867, and in supporting the efforts for confederation, he believed it would provide Nova Scotia with greater influence and prevent annexation by the United States. Thus, he used his government’s majority at the time to pass the terms of Confederation.
In its first decade, CJFX managed to also become “a training ground for social activists and broadcasters who would make their names outside of Antigonish.” This was the case for such personalities as sports broadcaster Danny Gallivan, television executive E. Finlay Macdonald, and then Professor, later turned politician, Allan J. MacEachen.
At the time, she sailed under the command of Captain Angus Walters, carrying eight dories, each manned by two members of the crew who would fill their dories with fish and return to the ship, usually four times a day. The fishing season of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland ran from April to September with the men staying out at sea for over eight weeks at a time until her holds were full and she needed to return to shore.
Later, when the CBC launched its TV new program Gazette, from Halifax in 1954, Hornstein became a popular weather forecaster. He retired from the meteorological service in 1972 after 34 years. His longtime friend and television colleague, the late Don Tremaine, once said of Hornstein, “He was one of the last great gentlemen. They don’t make those birds anymore.”- On this day, Ralph Pickard Bell was born in Halifax .
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