I was pleasantly surprised to see my grandfather appear at the 5:38 minute mark along with other members of The North Shore Gaelic Singers at the milling frolic scene. He was involved in the construction of the Gaelic College and also did thatch repairs on the Lone Shieling. Dan K. MacLeod (1892-1972)
Ummmmm, it's nice and all, but where are all the condos and airbnbs? And WHY are those people allowed near the water? Didn't they have the German and Torontonian overlords that we have today, barring all passage to beaches/ waterfrontage? Despicable!
Really? Guess it is all a matter of one's outlook on life. I was actually marveling at how much times change, but so much of what we were doing back in '49 was still being done and enjoyed today. Unless of course you were referring to the obvious - and routine for that time - 'whitewashing' of the population in NS during those times, as one might believe as portrayed on the film? Great part of being Nova Scotian, and Canadian... or fortunate to be living here... nobody is forcing anyone to stay or live someplace that doesn't suit yer fancy! 😉
I have been working in a boat shop for the last 43 years here in Chester that was built in 1980 for the purpose of building wooden 28 ft Cape Island boats for the local fishermen. Little did we know at the time that the Government would start granting fishermen money to go bigger and better. Fiberglass came in, boats doubled in size and the fish soon disappeared. Lobster luckily saved the fishermen and pleasure boats saved a lot of the builders. It would be nice to see bottom paints eliminated or changed so as to save the ocean bottom, as it looks bleak under the surface here in Chester.
gone is an understatement.... The trout are almost completely gone in the southwest, salmon have been gone for decades, the salmon are almost all gone in the north end of the province, the tuna are like ghosts now, lobster fishing is on the way to collapsing, cod fishery is gone, the mackrel are endangered, same as haddock, herring, smelt used to be so thick in the rivers you could walk on them, now there's barely any.... The rivers are being overrun with small mouth and pickerel in the southwest as well... I was born in the early 80's and still had the chance to witness when things were great, it's all dickered now.
@@Trigger200284 That's so cool. I live in Shubenacadie now. About 15mins from the Halifax Airport, coming from the Truro side. Nice to meet you! 😊 ✌️ & ❤️
@@Kerify used to live in truro. Did chimney sweeping for years all through Shubi, Milton and Elmsdale, Stewiacke. Chances are I’ve swept some of your neighbour’s flues at some point but it’s been a number of years.
Ok, this is a decades old promotional film and yes, it’s interesting to see how much has changed but what it really needs at the start is an apology regarding the complete disregard for the fact that this is Mi’qMa’ki, whose original inhabitants arrived and settled here about 13,000 years ago.
Moan moan moan. wah wah wah. It was 1949, were they really going to show half cut indians out of it in Parsborro to promote vacationing in Nova Scotia?
@@SteveConrad-l9j this is what the schools teach them now. They start every day with a PA announcement letting the children know they should be guilty about living on “their” land.
Every place on earth had some original inhabitants, and then some other ppl showed up and took it. That’s human history. That’s how it is. The strongest survive. Ppl got conquered, land took. Just like all humans were slaves at some point, not just blacks. Time to move on
Nazi display case "plastic paddies" the true Irish and Scottish people. Vinland has been confirmed to be in newfoundland. It's recorded in viking sagas that Greater Ireland is south of Vinland . Algonquin people speak Irish . Then simply read who invented this language . Walk like Egyptians.
They arrived home, just wanted to sit in the taverns and celebrate. The city was closed up deliberately for their arrival, no wonder they went crazy. They had won the war, I think they wanted to be welcomed and enjoy victory. I don’t condone the rioting, but I think I understand why it happened. My dad stayed on his ship at his post and did not take part. We lived near Halifax, at the time.
I’m old enough to remember my relatives from this era and they certainly still had opinions that most people wouldn’t find acceptable today. There was no lack of hierarchy back then as far as most people were concerned.
I was really surprised to hear that the Northumberland Straight was where the lobsters were most abundant... I'm from Cumberland county where that straight is, lobster fishing sure ain't what it used to be from what I just watched.
All the native america creation stories are amazing to me. gloscap. sky woman and turtle island. i believe in a bit of them all . my kiju used to tell me God is like the wind & water, wind is there u know its there. cant see it, and water she would tell me ewe made of mostly water. thats why it sacred. without water there is no life. i grew up on the rez, my Kiju. grandmother raised me. awesome video.
Yes, this is a classic example of the cultural erasure of Indigenous people that has happened all across the country (think Group of Seven). The effort the build national narratives out of the European fragments sadly rejected or ignored the idea that the land was occupied, worked, and conceptualized in art for thousands of years by Indigenous people. To speak of Bras D’Or Lake and not mention the Mi’kmaq people in Eskasoni, for example, is a glaring omission, especially considering that community’s (the largest Mi’kmaq community in Canada) close connections to both the Acadian and Gaelic cultures. This film is an artifact of its time and should be taken as such. I am glad you pointed out this issue.
No, there wasn't any. Your first tip was the title of the video- it's about the Celtic people who settled and built up CB into a functional and productive part of western civilization. If you want that kind of groveling and brain-washing, visit any public school in NS and you can listen to it before announcements. But don't worry. It won't be long until all the land in Canada is handed over to UNDRIP and you can live happily ever after in your 15 minute city aka white reservation with your woke pals. Enjoy ze bugs... Have a great day!
Ravaging the River with nets and building foreign structures, constructing multiple dams and artificial fish ladders, manipulating water levels by damming off and draining lakes. What a great way to protect these magnificent, fragile creatures. It’s not like we could have just left them the hell alone.
Where’s the diversity, the inclusion? How did the obtain puberty blockers for trans-kiddies?! What about the LGBTQE+2 community and their preferred pronouns? No tax on all that carbon, either?! How things have changed!
Amazing how they seemed to live a good life without all those diversity things and the need to keep the GDP ever growing.....for forty years we have had the mantra, "we need more people!, we need more people!"....they seemed to do fine without "more people".
Jesus, can they put people like you in one place please . You’ll all be happy because you can whine about things together you see on the news or hear from your kids/grandkids you don’t understand (before they stop visiting.)
They talked about how diverse an area NS was, or were you too busy typing nonsense down here to hear it? They also talked about pulling 40 tuna out of the water in a day and how you could fish the grand banks endlessly without it having an effect on the cod... How things have changed. In hindsight perhaps doing things differently than what was deemed appropriate in the 40's is a good thing.
Thankfully we didn't live in a society over populated with idiots that'd ever bring up such ridiculousness, and try to make such orchestrated outrage an issue in 1949. Nor did we offer such people a virtual public soapbox upon which to spread their hateful divisiveness to the masses... back in the "Good Ol Days". It isn't a mystery there Angela Lansbury...
My dad was in the RCN during the war- he was at sea when it happened but a lot of his friends were there. They were angry over the rent-gouging and profiteering of the citizens of Halifax who had been screwing over the Navy since the get-go and when some knob decided to stop them celebrating the end of the war (and remembering their friends who had died) they changed the narrative.
