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The essay provides a comprehensive overview of Nova Scotia's history, covering various aspects such as geography, demography, early indigenous cultures, European colonization, wars, the expulsion of Acadians, the creation of Canada, economic shifts, and the province's evolution into the modern era. It details key events like the Halifax Explosion, World Wars, and post-war developments. The narrative weaves together historical, economic, and cultural facets, showcasing Nova Scotia's resilience, challenges, and transitions over the centuries. It ends on an optimistic note, emphasizing the province's potential in sectors like clean energy, tourism, and technology for a promising future.

[@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj]

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[@2centschange]

You should rename this video "The history of Halifax" as you talk about very little besides it. 0 mention of the Canso Causeway construction, 0 mention of Sydney Harbor's value in the war. 0 mention of anything besides halifax for 80% of the video. Talk about poorly researched.

[@BatCaveOz]

Fun Fact - 50% of Nova Scotia's GDP is from pizza sales from The Wheel in Antigonish.

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

This is an amazing video. The only criticism I have as a lifelong resident of Nova Scotia is no mention of African Nova Scotians. Nova Scotia is home to many historic Black communities. And unlike many other large black communities across the country African Nova Scotian have quute a different culture. Where are large black populations in Ontario, Alberta, or Vancouver where driven by comparatively recent immigration from Other countries, most African Nova Scotians heritage within the province goes back hundreds of years. Big swaths of land were given to balck loyalists who fought on the side of the crown during the American revolution and war of 1812. Many enslaved peopel wining there freedoms fighting for the british or fighting to keep it and settling in Nova scotia, so where the Many African canadians from Places like Toronto or Montreal may nay show traits of culture from Africa, The Carribean Islands, or the UK as many of their parents or grandparents immigrated hear in yhe last century. African nova scotias have hqd centuries to develope their own cultures mixing with the greater cumture of Nova Scotia, and remnants of black communities below the border. 72% of Black Nova Scotia are 3rd generation or more. Anyway a mention of that would have been cool. But a great video anyhow 😊

[@kyleklukas4808]

There are many errors in this video .

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

So all of North Preston is North Preston's finest? Most of North Preston is elderly church going black folk who definitely aren't pulling drive-by but oh wait you've never been there so you wouldn't know. Also North Preston is only one community. These cultures mostly formed due to isolation and of course factors from African culture and bits of culture formed during inslavement

[@duaneday5474]

Doll House Universe

[@duaneday5474]

Lol nova scotias natural resources have been raped to death for centuries. NS has nothing but tourism to offer unless war time. All the money/goods are shipped overseas or overland trough and out of NS. The jobs include bartender, batista, delivery Halifax is the woke capital of the planet

[@johntomlinson-j6x]

Canada Was the first country to lay the ground works to free the Slaves, Along with Great Britain, USA and then France. The Under Ground Railway Brought up slaves from the south and had about 10 points very close to The US, Canada border

[@xxMelaniexx]

Cape Breton Island born and proud

[@RPMZ11]

MABOU BABY!...circa 1815.

[@Lotrprofessor1500]

same . sydney mines

[@2centschange]

Yeah, and we even got mentioned (a whopping twice) in the entire video.

[@terrysaunders7909]

Migama only lived in Newfoundland after they helped run off the Beothuck

[@ashleyparker264]

You are missing what is the most important part of Nova Scotia's history, The history of Canso, it will fill in so many holes and connect everything

[@NinjaTankRush]

Also some fun stories, like the time an American Privateer sailed up. The men were away fishing, so the women grabbed their militia coats and guns and started marching around in formation, scaring away the ship.

[@jmproductions185]

Hi, I’m in Canso right now for the folk fest. Do you have any anecdotes on why Canso is a special place in history? It’s a beautiful place!

[@ashleyparker264]

@@jmproductions185 I live here and I do know the whole story of Canso

[@Ejoel07]

Great video man, keep it up!

[@petemcfadden3543]

Amherst,Nova Scotia born and raised ..SCOTIA STRONG!👊❤️

[@alextrimper6290]

Much of the photage used is not in Nova Scotia. We don't have any mountins with glaciers on top.

[@standodge7687]

fun fact, the first freemason lodge in Canada was in nova scotia

[@LiveFreeHitYou]

How lovely

[@donnie8917]

Annapolis Royal

[@thedustytrail2915]

Is that lodge still operating?

[@donnie8917]

@@thedustytrail2915 Yes Annapolis Lodge in Annapolis Royal

[@Ellen24493]

@@donnie8917That’s incredible. Must be lots of history to your Lodge.

[@patthesoundguy]

M'ikmaq pronounced Meegmaw. K makes a G sound in M'ikmaq.

[@BurchellAtTheWharf]

24:07 I use to fish like these fellas here in this rowboat, 😁 there was no greater feeling then that very moment, haven the fish in the bun, ready to be hand dipped in to the boat

[@BurchellAtTheWharf]

That last clip, you was in my backyard 😅😂

[@darkknight6333]

Nova Scotia was actually Kwēdĕchk territory. Mi’kmaq are from the west. Little piece of Nova Scotia history that no one talks about. Nova Scotia has had many occupiers over time.

[@MikeInHalifax]

Who? Kwedechk? No. ? Who occupied NS?

[@darkknight6333]

@@MikeInHalifax the Kwēdĕchk originally occupied ns and the Mi’kmaq killed them and enslaved them and stole their land…. Nova Scotia is not Mi’kmaq territory. They stole it. Nova Scotia is an also ceded by treaty. They forfeited all the land to the king of England…… read the treaty

[@thejkyle]

This is an excellent video. I’m from Cape Breton and it’s always nice to learn about our history.

[@ScotianBlooded]

im on the opposite end on cape sable island

[@CMDR-C_K]

Hey fellow Caper!

[@CaptainLicorice]

I'm Nova Scotian and my family sold guns and supplies to both sides during the American civil war

[@greg0050]

Jewish or an asshole, call it.

[@nikcarrier7871]

The French never established a settlement called “Acadia”. This was what the called the entire landmass of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI was referred to by the colonists. The first settlement that your map designates was called Port Royale, not Acadia. Technically the first settlement was on the island of St Croix, but was such a failure, the colonists moved and founded the aforementioned Port Royale after their first winter.

[@mjd-m6h]

wtg get it right

[@TheBookReader-ug9qe]

You forgot to mention Africville in this video. Africville is part of Canadian and Nova Scotia history too. ✊️🇨🇦✊🏿

[@Nova_Scotia_Adventurer]

I'm right here in Annapolis Royal.

[@RPMZ11]

Beautiful...we were at Cornwallis, training.

[@nickyd1298]

U want a medal of Honor

[@falsedemocracy83]

Not far away here in Middleton.

[@kyleklukas4808]

The micmaq are not from Newfoundland. The indigenous people were killed out . Beofhuks . The micmaq only got to Newfoundland a couple hundred years ago when they received dory type boats from the French.

[@dinkster1729]

Maybe.

[@nikcarrier7871]

Yeah, they are correct about the Beothuk. The Mi’kmaq also were primarily a coastal nation. The interior of NB was and is still inhabited by the Maliseet. Centred around the Woolastook River (us colonists call it the Saint John River)

[@HalifaxHercules]

The Mi'kmaq map itself is misleading. For example, in New Brunswick, the Mi'kmaq are usually found along the Northumberland Strait and Bay of Chaleur area. Southern, Central, and Northwestern New Brunswick are predominantly Maliseet or Wolastoqiyik. Southwestern New Brunswick, notably Charlotte County, as well as Southeastern Maine are predominantly Passamaquoddy or Peskotomuhkatiyik.

[@johnt8636]

Charlesfort was established in 1629 and lasted until 1632.

[@acedelizo6430]

Fun fact: anne shirly from Anne of Green Gables is a Nova Scotian before living in PEI

[@dinkster1729]

A fictional character? But well remembered all over the world.

[@MichaelMahoney10]

very well made and informative, thank you!!

[@Snorbulan]

Very interesting and good vidoe!

[@cmdrbrianthechronic5103]

YOU JUST SOLVED MY PROBLEM THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

[@LemonCamel]

Idk if you said this, but a lot of those expelled Acadians went to Louisiana. Acadian, Cadian, Cajun

[@invadertifxiii]

so nova scotia had french, english and scottish peoples

[@colinkaiser]

Correct

[@invadertifxiii]

@@colinkaiser I'm trying to figure out my maternal grandmother history because she was adopted and it looks like her side may have been from there

[@Guiltypencil]

we also have a large African Canadian population

[@nickyd1298]

And blacks

[@craigyoung9321]

Mi'kmaq too

[@redwolf6036]

Me Nan was born in Nova Scotia. 1 of the Donnelly's.

[@AcornScorn]

From new Brunswick and it sucks how often we get overlooked fro Nova Scotia despite contributing far more

[@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj]

Video coming for sure 👌

[@Robjoe88]

As a proud Acadian and having just discovered your channel, thank you for helping tell the story of my ancestors. Even as we lost close to half our people during the great deportation, our people are very resilient and are still very active in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI. I still consider myself Canadian but the blood flowing through my veins is very Acadian. Vive L'Acadie! ⭐️

[@dinkster1729]

You missed the Acadians living on the west coast of Newfoundland and Labrador--the Port-au-Port Penninsula and Conne River. There are also lots of people of Acadian descent living on St Pierre et Miquelon, French territory. I think there are some who moved up to Labrador as well.

[@differentfins]

Very informative video. I learned much of this in High School history but learned a few new things watching this. Thank you.

[@QueenRamones]

what a awesome video ty 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@heath832]

Yarmouth born, cape Forchu is where John Cabot returned and perished falling on the rocks by the sea perhaps being swept in the ocean by undertow

[@snipesxiii9188]

this was an awesome video!

[@johnmacpherson4758]

You forgot to mention the rapidly increasing unhoused population and extreme lack of affordable housing in the last 5 years.

[@skottlee8959]

"Unhoused population" lmao sounds so slick you barely even consider it

[@johnmacpherson4758]

It's what those citizens are .... We've been using that term for a few years now. Nothing new.

[@ludvigkhan8087]

I love this video good documentary I hear about Man City of nova Scotia this is new Glasgow I am right my friend?🇸🇪🤝🇨🇦

[@charlesstuartrobertson9430]

Should be called Halifax explained

[@lucyfrancis258]

The Spanish people were trading here in Nova Scotia before the European.

[@algonquin91]

Good video: two fascinating stories missed are the Afro-Canadian history of Nova Scotia and the destruction of Africville as well as the importance of Pier 21 in Halifax which was a significant spot for 1 million immigrants coming to Canada in early-mid 20th century. Portuguese and Basque fishermen and whalers also set up temporary settlements and conducted trade with indigenous peoples there before it was colonised by the French.

[@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj]

Thank you for good future topic ideas

[@johntomlinson-j6x]

yes Nova Scotia was one of the points of entry for the Under Ground Railway, when black American's were fleeing slavery

[@Arcticwind-xw6qg]

Go cry somewhere else

[@Arcticwind-xw6qg]

Africans aren’t Canadians. Just a burden on the province

[@dinkster1729]

@@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj You seemed to be tracing the Viking route to the New World, not Cabot's. Who told you that's the route the Cobot took?

[@basolisk3057]

I live in Nova Scotia in the Halifax region. I found you video very intresting. I wish to point out one small mistake. When talking about the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge bridge, built in 1955, your video actuley focused in on the newer A. Murray MacKay Bridge bridge built in 1970. The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge is the one closer to the mouth of the harbor

[@dinkster1729]

You haven't renamed them with Native names yet? Our third crossing, now our second, is the Wabana Bridge. Our first crossing has been destroyed by the contractors hired to fix it here in Kingston, Ontario. No more LaSalle Causeway.

[@basolisk3057]

@dinkster1729 surprisingly not. Tho they are erasing a lot of other names because of there hurt feelings, like the founder of the city Lord Cornwallis (Cornwallis park renamed "Peace and Frindship park" and Cornwallis rd now called Nora Bedard rd) to name a few

[@Ellen24493]

⁠​⁠@@basolisk3057Considering General Lord Cornwallis tried to wipe out the local Mi’kmaqs as colonial governor in Halifax from 1749-52, it’s understandable their descendants wanted to erase him from Nova Scotia history. Cornwallis was dispatched to the New World by his British superiors to found Halifax. It was a better location than Port Royal for the naval fleet to access the region. An ancillary benefit of having Cornwallis in situ was his ability to cull indigenous inhabitants, having helped quell the clans at Culloden in the Scottish Highlands during their final Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Cornwallis hunted down and executed survivors on the orders of British army commander the Duke of Cumberland, earning His Grace the nickname Butcher. The smashing of the clan system, and the subsequent Highland Clearances that cruelly forced any remaining Highlanders off their lands, was the plan for the Natives by the dastardly Cornwallis. To him they were just another group of rebels to be liquidated. It must’ve been ironic for the Highlanders that fled Scotland for Nova Scotia to be governed by the same evil man that forced them to run for their lives across the Atlantic. However by that time Cornwallis’s quarrel was with the Natives, not the Scottish, who were useful to the British by populating the land under the Union Jack, limiting expansion of the French settlers of Acadia. But I digress. The Mi’kmaqs opposed the founding of Halifax on their lands and conducted war raids on the colony. Cornwallis responded with his Extirpation Proclamation of 1749. Any man was paid a reward who brought him a Mi’kmaq scalp. Ever the financial pragmatists, numerous Scottish settlers were known to have done so as part of a local militia. The Mi'kmaqs were almost annihilated. At the end of his term as Halifax governor in 1752, Cornwallis returned to London and eventually became an MP at Westminster. His incomplete genocide of the Mi’kmaq was a distant memory. Until his commemorative statue was removed from a Halifax park in 2018. The Mi’kmaq had prevailed.

[@PhoenixRising2040]

Born and raised in the annapolis valley 😊

[@coltonmacd.2206]

Only gripe i haven't seen is that you mentioned the MacDonald bridge but show the MacKay (the MacDonald has 3 lanes, MacKay has 4)

[@conorspyridon7008]

@4.07 A mick talking about the mikmak....never saw that coming

[@rainy-zy9zp]

I'm sooooo glad we're not french 👍🏼👍🏼

[@Steven-wn2vx]

Nova Scotia strong for life

[@HalifaxHercules]

At 2:35, the Mi'kmaq map is a little misleading. In the case of Newfoundland or Ktaqmkuk, it was originally Beothuk territory. As for New Brunswick and Maine, Southwestern New Brunswick and Maine are traditionally Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkatiyik) lands; and Northwestern, Central, and Southern New Brunswick as well as Northern Maine, and Quebec's Bas St. Laurent regions are predominantly Maliseet/Wolastoqiyik. As for the Newfoundland/Ktaqmkuk Mi'kmaq, there's a lot of dispute whether they are indigenous to Newfoundland as the Beothuk's, a branch of the Subarctic group of native peoples, were the original indigenous people.

[@BirchByteWanderer]

Have you done Newfoundland and Labrador? Or have you gone the way of Air Canada? We’re often excluded

[@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj]

Would love to do a vid on Labrador but don’t have a my footage. Might have to go there myself.

[@dinkster1729]

@@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj The history of Newfoundland is often ignored even by academic Canadian historians. No wonder you don't have much footage. Fascinating history though.

[@r3kt4u20]

Randomly I've started seeing Nova Scotia everywhere on yt

[@danpower1358]

Not bad, but you forgot about the deep Coal Mining history in Cape Breton NS. It includes the workers Strike of 1925, that went on for 5 months, between WW1 and WW2. The Government of the day shut down the island of Cape Breton. Shutting down food supplies and water to the many towns that supported the workers at all coal mines. Striking workers wanted at least 1 day off, at least10 hours shifts and better pay. In June 1925 some coal miners went to the pumping station to turn the water back on, and they were meet with company police, who shot, killed and wounded some miners. This murder caused a revolt of 20,000 miners and riots began all over Cape Breton, that lasted for 5 months. The military at that time was brought in to beat and attack coal miners and their family's during many church services. Some soldiers would drag the beaten coal miners through the towns as a warning to others. This was the first time in Canada that our military was sent out to beat and attack civilians. New laws were invoked due to this revolt, giving workers better pay and working conditions all across the common wealth. Very important history from Cape Breton... that is almost half of NS.

[@gwengirlmc1795]

Bravo.... You tell it... N exactly

[@mojoel1]

They are pronounced "new FIN land" and "dart MITH". I wont get into Shubenacadie, Hectanooga ad Kejimakujik.

[@samuellycan6108]

The correct pronunciation for Newfoundland is that it basically rhymes with the word 'understand. Not new fin land.

[@mojoel1]

@samuellycan6108 noo fin LAND. And yes. It's like "understand". L-a-n-d spells land. I get what you were thinking I typed. Like Finland. Like fin Lund. That's not what I meant.

[@arthurshannon1851]

Loved cape Breton highlands national park!! Never saw people play softball on gravel.

[@gregbradshaw8679]

Well done!!!!!

[@Portcityline]

Please do one on Saint John New Brunswick, so much history

[@craigyoung9321]

Why not the whole province like this video?

[@Portcityline]

@@craigyoung9321 that would be great to watch

[@lvup7907]

newfoundlanders do not call there home new found land but if you live outside of cananda you wouldnt know that

[@Ryuko-T72]

Empire total war cover guy for the thumbnail today...

[@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj]

It’s a good game

[@JohnDoucet-v7g]

the map made it look like it's attached to the main land lol

[@Mme.Swisstella]

It is indeed attached to the mainland

[@JohnDoucet-v7g]

@@Mme.Swisstella yes i always thought there was a bridge in that area i was wrong...i was laughing at my self there because i didn't know

[@asdasd-sw5lp]

i. love this

[@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj]

yaay, first comment

[@lucyfrancis258]

The first nation peoples were force to switch to catholic it was not a choice

[@Arcticwind-xw6qg]

Yeah and now they live in a first world country and not the Stone Age.

[@JJ-oe4oc]

​@@Arcticwind-xw6qg And now arcticwind still lives in a basement lonely and sad.

[@bradleylaford1526]

Eastern Canadian Indigenous Peoples (Population 16,000 - 22,000) are no different Anthropologically than Kossacks or Scandinavian peoples. In both cases the Lifestyles in Preindustrial times was a direct consequence of both Population & Climate

[@robertfstrickland6207]

Nova Scotia Strong

[@gavinrivington4918]

Every New Brunswickers favourite province lol cheers from Fredericton.

[@digbymodelrailway2929]

You fail to recognize a few things in regard to the natives. I suggest you got ready 21 facts about the Indian act. It’ll change your perspective on them

[@696969640]

big angus was my great great uncle

[@dylanmckeen7332]

Beirut explosion was bigger than the Halifax explosion. We are no longer number 1 :(

[@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj]

Bummer

[@snipes_1138]

Halifax explosion is nearly four times higher than the Beirut explosion estimate....

[@696969640]

and the strongest and biggest man who ever lived was from cape breton nova scotia big angus macaskill 7 feet 9 inch 450 pounds 12 inch hand 44 inch shoulders 80 inch chest could pick up 2700 pound anchor walk with it

[@charlesstuartrobertson9430]

NS is 3.3 times larger?

[@Del-Halifax]

Would you like to know more?

[@rennyh8627]

I agree with the large comment saying their should’ve been more mentioning of our African Nova Scotians. Also the way you talked about what Nova Scotia did to its indigenous population is extremely glossed over. It’s much more complex and inarguably a genocide. There’s no debating that. It wasn’t “alcoholism”, it was the systematic destruction of a whole group of people who are still recovering from the immense trauma. The last residential school closed in the late 90s. It’s not like a thing of the past. It’s still ongoing and a lot of reservations don’t have clean water. Elliot page did a documentary about environmental racism in NS. I recommend you watch it.

[@Arcticwind-xw6qg]

Instead of celebrating something great you cry instead

[@dinkster1729]

Name of documentary?

[@duaneday5474]

Doll House Universe

[@ludvigkhan8087]

I love this video I hear about City of Nova Scotia new Glasgow if I have rights ? My friend

[@quaz450]

It's "noofin'land" bub

[@RebelforAll]

Who’s in 2024

[@mitch-ge5di]

Uhh.... Wasn't it posted in 2024 😅

[@johnmacpherson4758]

Dart-MOUTH and ....Dollhouse university? Yikes.

[@frankshearer9290]

If the Acadians had pledged allegiance to the British as requested, there would have been no expulsion. Tell the whole story.

[@dinkster1729]

Why should they pledge allegiance to the British, an occupying power? Self-determination is a human right.

[@mybackup5206]

Imagine you had a flourishing independent country for 150 years built from the ground up, and one day the English tell you it's their land and you have to leave. you gonna pledge allegiance to them and give up all of your ancestors hard work? yikes.

[@darrylpotter8255]

Are you sir Irish?

[@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj]

Grown Irish but not born Irish

[@BloodandSoilNS]

​@@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tjSo Arab? Indian?

[@shelly4042]

A lot of this information is not correct, perhaps update your sources

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

Tell him which parts aren't correct

[@shelly4042]

@@gamexsimmonds3581 No, thank you

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

@@shelly4042 Then why comment?

[@mikhaelvaillancourt8623]

they did pledge they would not fight with new france and they stayed neutral.

[@dinkster1729]

@@gamexsimmonds3581 Halifax for one.

[@Tyrone_Tavius596]

Good video. But man this guy piss me off with him mispronouncing almost everything. Like dude we see your doing this on purpose.

[@Tyrone_Tavius596]

I grew up in Nova Scotia learning about African Nova Scotians and the fact that not mentioning at all. This guy is racist.

[@BloodandSoilNS]

I grew up in Cape Breton, and no one cares; we're all racist now. \\\

[@Anonymous_Whisper]

That title in is off so I'm not watching

[@Nicklan1961]

Nova Scotia I was born in Nova Scotia I lived there until I was about 30 years old The single biggest problem with Nova Scotia is the total corruption of the governments of Nova Scotia A handful of people call all the shots no one else is allowed to do f****** anything.

[@falsedemocracy83]

The foreign owned power company that insults the intelligence of the public by calling itself "Nova Scotia Power" has a full monopoly on electricity is a great example of that corruption. What they demand you do with excess electricity that you produce yourself, on your property, with devices that you paid for would have caused riots and/or a revolution 100 years ago. Unfortunately, the masses have had the love of freedom chemically lobotomized from their brains.

[@donnie8917]

The arab invasion is ruining Nova Scotia.

[@BloodandSoilNS]

The great replacement isn't a theory. The people who don't see that are lost souls.

[@josephmacgillivray]

Absolutely. Why don't they go home or go somewhere else? It was already ruined, anyway with being forced by Charles Tupper into an unwanted Confederation. Nova Scotia did not want to join. People were burning Tupper in effigy all across Nova Scotia. Just as Joseph Howe predicted, we became poor by the 1920s, among other predictions that came to be. It was also ruined with the suppression of Gáidhlig. It was once one of the top three spoken languages in Canada and most dominant in Nova Scotia. We are Nova Scotia which means New Gaeldom. Not Nova England, Nova Arab or Nova Anything, but Nova Scotia.

[@josephmacgillivray]

It was already ruined by being forced into Confederation by Charles Tupper which was not mentioned, plus the suppression of Gaelic after it arrived. Ģaels experienced just as much hardships as the Mi'kmaw. The only difference was Gaels went home.

[@josephmacgillivray]

Charles Tupper forced Nova Scotia into Confederation. Joseph Howe made predictions that came to be such as NS would become poor. It was poor by the 1920s. People were burning Tupper in effigy all across Nova Scotia. The Gáidhlig language was one of the top three spoken languages in Canada and remained dominant in Nova Scotia despite suppression and led to it's decline by mid 20th century. It is making a comeback, though. Nova Scotia means New Gaeldom. Take back the language and let it thrive.

[@josephmacgillivray]

I tried to elaborate more on that but I keep getting deleted. I guess the poster doesn't want to hear the truth.

[@Steve-mz7np]

Skipped over the Fortress of Louisbourg, largest reconstruction of a historic site in North America, built to protect Quebec City, worth a look if your in Cape Breton. John Diefenbaker took a bunch of unemployed coal miners in the 1960s and eventually rebuilt 1/3 of the original Fortress.

[@kgm4556]

The Fortress is one of my favourite spots in Cape Breton. So fun.

[@Steve-mz7np]

@@kgm4556 I had my growing up years there, use to walk the shore and get in for free, lol

[@Tyrone_Tavius596]

Good video. But man this guy piss me off with him mispronouncing almost everything. Like dude we see your doing this on purpose.

[@snipes_1138]

He's not from Nova Scotia how the hell is he supposed to know how to pronounce things correctly??

[@robvannNS]

Fyi ..Mi'kmaq is actually prononced MEE G-MAHK.

[@craigyoung9321]

It's more like Mig Ma, you don't really pronounce the K. I teach in a school on a Mi'kmaq reservation

[@gung2549]

No K at the end it's mig maw

[@houndrobertson]

Hey, I need to ask you to consider redoing this video, I actually really like the quality of production that went into it and your narration is good, but there are a lot of inaccuracies, namely the native people of Newfoundland (pronounced Newfinland) although there were definitely SOME Mi'kmaq, the main indigenous people of Newfoundland were the Beothuk, who experienced complete genocide at the hands of the English. Again I do like your content, but I would encourage you to double check a few things and repost, please let me know if I can be of any help.

[@houndrobertson]

Please feel free to correct me!

[@CMDR-C_K]

Born and raised Cape Bretoner here!

[@Steven-wn2vx]

Awesome 😎. I love history especially when it's in regards to my home

[@paullesyk374]

Look at all these arm chair historians lol

[@tallahassZ]

I'm from Nova Scotia. Great video!