#Nova Scotia Voyageurs

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Halifax Regional Municipality Mayor Mike Savage declared a local state of emergency late Sunday evening as fire crews continue to battle a fire in Upper Tantallon.

The local state of emergency is set to be in effect for seven days, unless regional council lifts or extends the declaration.

The state of emergency will give the municipal government more power to respond to the wildfire.

Evacuation orders are in effect for residents in the following communities:

Highland Park

Haliburton Hills

Westwood Hills

Glen Arbour

Pockwock Road

White Hills subdivision

Lucasville Road all the way to Sackville Drive

Maplewood

Voyageur Way including St. George Boulevard (includes side streets)

McCabe Lake

Indigo Shores

RCMP officers are on the scene to assist with evacuations. The evacuation route is Winslow Drive to Hammonds Plains Road.

The evacuation orders will not be lifted until at least Monday.

Please keep Nova Scotia in your thoughts! And fellow Bluenosers, stay safe and keep informed about any updates to evacuated areas!

[atlanticcanada]

Evacuation centre, comfort centres open for residents fleeing Halifax-area wildfire

An evacuation centre opened overnight in Halifax for residents feeling a wildfire that began in the Upper Tantallon, N.S., area Sunday afternoon.

The evacuation centre is located at the Canada Games Centre at 26 Thomas Raddall Dr.

The Halifax Regional Municipality says the evacuation centre has been opened to especially support residents who do not have family supports or insurance.

FAST-MOVING FIRE

The rapidly spreading wildfire, fed by strong winds and tinder-dry woods, has damaged or destroyed dozens of homes in the region.

Amid thick plumes of smoke, residents fled from the Tantallon area Sunday afternoon after the RCMP issued an emergency alert about rapidly advancing "structure and forest fires."

Over the next six hours, another three alerts called for more evacuations as the fire grew.

Firefighters withdrew from the woods for their own safety through the overnight hours, but are expected to continue dousing flames inside the subdivisions.

EVACUATION ORDERS

Evacuation orders are in effect for residents in the following communities:

Highland Park

Haliburton Hills

Westwood Hills

Glen Arbour

Pockwock Road

White Hills subdivision

Lucasville Road to Sackville Drive

Maplewood

Voyageur Way, including St. George Boulevard (includes side streets)

McCabe Lake

Indigo Shores

COMFORT CENTRES

The Halifax Regional Municipality has comfort centres opened to assist residents impacted by the fires.

Black Point and Area Community Centre at 8579 St Margarets Bay Rd. The comfort centre will be open from 7 a.m. until further notice.

Beaver Bank Kinsac Community Centre at 1583 Beaver Bank Rd. The comfort centre is open until further notice.

LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENCY

Halifax Regional Municipality Mayor Mike Savage declared a local state of emergency late Sunday evening.

The local state of emergency is set to be in effect for seven days, unless regional council lifts or extends the declaration.

The state of emergency will give the municipal government more power to respond to the wildfire.

SCHOOL CLOSURES

The following schools are closed Monday due to the wildfires and evacuations:

Bay View High

Hammonds Plains Consolidated

Kingswood Elementary

Tantallon Junior Elementary

Tantallon Senior Elementary

Madeline Symonds Middle School

FIRE WEBPAGE

The Nova Scotia government has launched a new webpage with the latest emergency alerts and resource information about the fire.

It includes wildfire updates and links to important social media accounts where to find comfort centres school closures, and more.

In an update to the webpage Sunday night, the province said there was no estimate on the size of the fire.

It also said various first response teams were onsite to help fight the fire and with evacuations, though exact numbers were not yet available.

Two Department of Natural Resources and Renewables helicopters and a water bomber from Newfoundland were involved in firefighting efforts at the time.

With files from The Canadian Press

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[lesorciercanadien]

St. Anne's Feast Day - July 26

St. Anne is the mother of the Virgin Mary, and the grandmother of Jesus. She gave birth to Mary very late in her life, and taught her all about the Christian way of life. She is often linked with books, and is the patron saint of grandparents.

Patron saint of Brittany and Canada, St. Anne has been venerated by Catholics in Canada since the first settlers' arrival and before. Voyageurs in the fur trade would pray and offer tokens to St. Anne for a safe passage through the wilderness to the trading posts, and for safe passage across the Great Lakes. She has also been adopted by some Indigenous cultures, notably the Innu of Labrador and Quebec (Nitassinan). She serves as a grandmother figure, and is known for her healing powers. As such, she is placed highly in Indigenous culture for those that practice elements of Christianity.

In 1650, Breton sailors experienced a nasty storm near Quebec. They vowed that if they made it to shore safe and sound, they'd honor St. Anne with a sanctuary. Landing safely, they build the shrine of Beaupré. This expanded into a basilica later.

In Brittany, St. Anne's Feast Day is celebrated with torch-lit processions. She is the patron saint of sailors and Canadians at sea, fishermen, seamstresses, miners and the subterranean world, crafters of brooms, cabinetmakers, carpenters, pregnant women, childless people, lace makers, equestrians, vintage and second-hand clothes dealers.

Ways to celebrate her feast day include:

-offerings of chamomile tea, wine, flowers, and white candles

-dedicate a journal to her

-do something that heals you. Have you taken time to slow down and take care of yourself recently?

-take time to meditate on the subterranean level. Ground yourself and learn about the earth around you.

-learn about the ocean history around you (living in Nova Scotia, it's a bit easier to do, and she was well-loved by my Acadian ancestors)

-reach out to your grandmother if you haven't yet. She misses you. Or offer a candle for all your matrilineal female ancestors who passed away.

-sew something in her honor that day, perhaps an apron with red, green and white embroidery. Really make it for her.

-Offer roses, Queen Anne's lace, chamomile as flowers on your altar.

-Pray to St. Anne's Chaplet. This has a Saint Anne medal, and three groups of five beads, with each grouping separated by one larger, or distinct bead for a total of eighteen beads. The single larger beads may be in the shape of a rose.

-Tend to your garden lovingly.

[sixstringnation]

I said last week that that blonde centre strip of the neck laminate from the Manoir Papineau in Montebello QC marked the end of our tour of the pieces of diverse Canadian history and diverse heritage that make up Voyageur. True - but I seem to have made a glaring omission! What about the machine heads that help keep Voyageur in such marvellously stable tuning? They are not drawn from Canadian history but they have proven to be a remarkable and fortuitous part of the story. Full scale work on construction of the guitar began on April 30th, 2006, and it needed to be complete for its Parliament Hill debut on Canada Day, July 1st. Luthier George Rizsanyi had identified a local foundry in Nova Scotia that was willing to custom make the machine heads but about 5 weeks before the deadline, they pulled out of the project, leaving us stranded. George explained our situation to an artisan whose work he had used on previous guitars, Nicolo Alessi in Varese, Italy - not far from Milano - and within weeks he had delivered these beauties. Look closely and you'll see the monogram "6SN" - the abbreviation I always use for Six String Nation - stamped on each of the mounting plates. These were not cheap - especially as a last-minute order - but their elegance and simplicity and performance made them absolutely worth the price. I cannot tell you the number of times I have stepped on a plane in one part of Canada, flown hours to another part of the country with a different climate and elevation, taken the guitar out of the case at the venue and found it to be completely in tune. And while the machine heads may stand out for their absence of historical Canadian origin, they nevertheless played a key role in the story of the Six String Nation, as you'll see in the following posts. Find out more about the Six String Nation project at https://ift.tt/2YY4V7f . . . . . . . #guitarmaking #luthiery #madeinitaly #alessituningmachines #alessituners #CanadianHistory #CanEd #CanadianMusic #SocialStudies #CanadianGuitar #acousticguitar #CanadianTeachers #K12 #keynotespeaker #CdnEd #ETFO #OSSTF #canadianteachers #EdLeaders #OECD #VoiceEd #imaginED #sixstringnation #6SN via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CCqxEWVnj9F/

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#10yrsago Six String Nation, the chronicle of Voyageur, a remarkable, unifying, synthesizing Canadian guitar

Earlier this month, I wrote about Voyageur, a storied, marvellous guitar pieced together from emotionally charged physical objects from across Canada, from the local to the national. Voyageur is a remarkable thing, a deliberately created talisman that was created by selecting 64 significant objects, combining them with skill and craftsmanship, and then bringing it across the nation, back and forth, back and forth, to draw out the personal magic of all kinds of Canadians.

Voyageur's story is collected in a remarkable book, Six String Nation: 64 Pieces, 6 Springs, 1 Country, 1 Guitar, written by Jowi Taylor, the guitar's overseer. Both the book and the guitar are quintessentially Canadian, attempting to unify a nation that is inherently synthetic, filled with people whose claim to "Canadianness" is recent, contingent, and fraught. It's not just non-indigenous people; Canada's "First Nations" struggle just as much with identity, the result of a combination of state policies that ranged from the merely discriminatory to the outright genocidal and the diversity within indigenous communities, whose makeup includes Cree and Six Nations and other "original" indigenes; Inuit people who found the continent much later, and metis and other "mixed" people who lay claim to multiple heritages.

Growing up Canadian, I fully internalized the idea that countries are just arbitrarily delimited places filled with people from all over the world, that prejudiced nationalism wasn't just ugly, it was nonsensical. "Canadians" aren't Canadian because of where they were born or because of who their parents were -- they're Canadian because they call themselves Canadian. It's no wonder that the winning entry in a famous CBC contest to finish the phrase "As Canadian as..." was "...possible under the circumstances."

Jowi Taylor's book, his guitar, and his remarkable quest to bring an object "made from hockey sticks and canoe paddles and grain elevators and baseboards and boats and antlers," to as many Canadians as possible, to have it played by as many Canadians as possible, are a uniquely Canadian endeavor, a synthesis of all the different ways there are to "be Canadian."

Structurally, the book is a great mix of short reminisces, portraits of the guitar and the many people who've honored it, and an inventory of the pieces that form it, from ancient rock to Rocket Richard's Stanley Cup ring to Pierre Trudeau's canoe paddle to a piece of the sacred Haida Gai tree to a piece of John A Macdonald's sideboard to a piece of the Nova Scotia Home for Coloured Children to a bit of a soup paddle from   Hoito Restaurant, a worker's co-op started by Finnish trade-unionists in Northern Ontario. Braiding the stories of the guitar, its pieces, and its fans makes for a powerful back story, a kind of magic that is positively galvanizing.

Whether or not you are Canadian or care about Canada's endless identity crisis, "Six String Nation" is a remarkable account of how humans infuse objects with meaning and story and turn them into powerful, awesome symbols.

After writing my earlier post, I heard from Jowi, who reminded me of a delightful personal connection, as his mother told him, "You and Cory Doctorow played together in [Toronto's] Earl Bales Park at the NDP [New Democratic Party] Picnic when you were little"!  It's a small world and a small country, indeed.

Six String Nation: 64 Pieces, 6 Springs, 1 Country, 1 Guitar (Amazon Canada)

Six String Nation: 64 Pieces, 6 Springs, 1 Country, 1 Guitar (Amazon US)

Six String Nation (site)/Guitar Explorer

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[hatepedia]

European Canadian Rights

European Canadian Rights refers to practices, traditions and customs that distinguish the unique culture of each White people in Canada that was practiced prior to 21st century non-White immigration. These are rights that European peoples of Canada hold as a result of long-standing ancestral use and occupancy of the land. 

Reguarding the longstanding history of European Canadians, the Council of European Canadians had this to say:

The Québecois were a people created in the soil along the edges of the St. Lawrence in the 1600s. It is normal today to meet Québecois who can trace their North American lineage back more than 20 generations [...]

New France was a traditional, Christian, and authentically Canadien colony until the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. The habitants, tenant farmers labouring for the seigneurs, enjoyed considerably more rights than their peasant counterparts in France, and had a good standard of living. They worked hard in the fields but had a varied diet consisting of cabbage, carrots, celery, beans, lettuce, and fresh bread and meat. Most houses owned their own oven for baking bread, cows which provided milk and butter, chickens for meat and eggs, and pigs. The nearby forests abounded in wild berries to harvest and wild animals to hunt. Some of the sons of the habitants felt the mysterious forests on the edge of their homesteads beckoning to them, and became the voyageurs, enterprising and risk-taking fur traders. Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, known as La Vérendrye, explored the interior of the continent, becoming the first European to reach the upper Missouri River. Two of his sons were the first Europeans to see the majestic Rocky Mountains [...] 

The Acadians are another Euro-Canadian people born of the soil, founding the province Nova Scotia through their love of big families. Settling in Nova Scotia in the mid-1600s, then the maritime part of New France, they tended to marry in their early twenties and have about ten or eleven children. In 1686, the Acadians numbered about 800. By 1710, this had grown to 2000. Without any more French immigration, their population multiplied nearly 30 times between 1611 and 1755. In 1755, they had grown to 13,000 inhabitants! During the French and Indian War, the Acadians resolutely refused to give a pledge of loyalty to the British rulers who had conquered Acadia. From 1755-1762, most Acadians were expelled. In 1764, some 3,000 were allowed back to Nova Scotia, where they grew to 4,000 by 1800 through their high birth rates. In New Brunswick, a territory carved out of Nova Scotia in 1884, there was a population of 4,000 Acadians in the 1880s, a result of high birth rates rather than the return of more exiles. 

The original Acadian settlers were not immigrants, but rather a people born in the soil of of Acadia with unique customs and significantly different speech patterns than the Québecois. They settled in a harsh environment, having to harvest salt from the salt marshes, clear forests, and build dykes to reclaim land from the Bay of Fundy’s tides. Despite all of this, they had a higher standard of living than the large majority of French peasants and a noble, independent spirit. Having survived the Acadian expulsion, their descendants number more than 11,000 in Nova Scotia and 25,000 in New Brunswick. The Acadians are alive and well, concentrated in the northeastern shore of New Brunswick (known as the Acadian Peninsula), Edmunston (NB), Clare County (Nova Scotia), Chéticamp in Cape Breton, the Evangeline region of Prince Edward Island and Îles de la Madeleine in Quebec. Many homes in Acadian communities are decorated with the red, white and blue Acadian flag [...] 

Today’s historians project the modern diversity ideology into the past. Standard Canadian history textbooks read by university students today claim that the founders of Ontario and the Maritimes came from “many different ethnic backgrounds” and that the Loyalists were “quite a disparate group”. In reality, the Loyalists were thoroughly British in ethnicity and culture, and are better characterized as “internal migrants” since they moved from British colonies to territories claimed by Britain: Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island. They moved between regions within the British Empire rather than between countries. The Loyalists were long established British settlers born in the British Empire’s American colonies, not immigrants. 

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TFSA Investors: This Hidden Gem Can Return 20% in 2020

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Often, when you look at companies yielding high dividends, you question whether the company can sustain high payments for a long time. You want to make sure that the company is profitable and sustainable. You look for consistency in the business.

When a company reports 54 consecutive profitable quarters since its debut 14 years back, your fears are largely assuaged. Fifty-four consecutive, profitable quarters is no mean achievement. But there is hardly any noise and definitely no drama around this remarkable performance by Chorus Aviation (TSX:CHR). And as for the dividend? That’s a payout of almost 6%.

Chorus is a player in the regional aviation space. Headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Chorus is comprised of Chorus Aviation Capital a leading, global lessor of regional aircraft, and Jazz Aviation and Voyageur Aviation. Apart from owning, operating and leasing aircraft, Chorus also provides a full suite of regional aviation support services like aircraft acquisition, aircraft re-purposing, fleet management, contract flying, engineering, aircraft and component maintenance, leasing, disassembly, and parts provisioning/logistics.

Good Q3 numbers

The company has turned in a profit every quarter since its debut in 2006, and its Q3 results for 2019 were no exception.

In the September quarter, adjusted EBITDA came in at $92.6 million, growing by $5.8 million, in large part due to a 78% increase in adjusted EBITDA in the Regional Aircraft Leasing segment, with 12 leasing transactions closing in the quarter.

Adjusted earnings per share grew by 12.5% from the second quarter of this year primarily due to a 76% increase in earnings before tax in the Regional Aircraft Leasing segment. Adjusted net income came in at $29.2 million, a decrease of $1.6 million.

The company is assured of a steady stream of revenue. Joseph D. Randell, president and CEO, said, “Over 90% of our revenue secured through long-term contracts, our business is predictable and transparent. We currently have a minimum of approximately $2.5 billion in future contracted revenue. Our business delivered results that once again met our expectations, and we made advancements in growing our leasing business.”

The leasing game

Chorus’s leasing business is generating a lot of traction. As Fool contributor Nelson Smith pointed out, leasing is the big area of growth for Chorus, and the company is making large strides in this space.

It’s a simple play. Chorus buys aircraft, leases them back to airlines, retaining ownership until the lease expiration date. When it expires, Chorus has the option to lease it again, sell it, or use the aircraft for the company.

Chorus completed its first sale of leased assets — three Dash 8-400s on lease since 2017 for net proceeds of approximately $25 million after debt repayment. Chorus also added Malindo Air, a member of the Lion Air Group, to the leasing portfolio, expanding the company’s reach into Southeast Asia.

While the regional market in North America is saturated, Chorus doesn’t see the demand going down anytime soon with a strong pipeline.

Analysts tracking the stock have given it an average target of $9.50 — an upside of almost 18% from current levels. When you include the dividend payout, this is a deal you want to take.

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[goldira01]

Often, when you look at companies yielding high dividends, you question whether the company can sustain high payments for a long time. You want to make sure that the company is profitable and sustainable. You look for consistency in the business.

When a company reports 54 consecutive profitable quarters since its debut 14 years back, your fears are largely assuaged. Fifty-four consecutive, profitable quarters is no mean achievement. But there is hardly any noise and definitely no drama around this remarkable performance by Chorus Aviation (TSX:CHR). And as for the dividend? That’s a payout of almost 6%.

Chorus is a player in the regional aviation space. Headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Chorus is comprised of Chorus Aviation Capital a leading, global lessor of regional aircraft, and Jazz Aviation and Voyageur Aviation. Apart from owning, operating and leasing aircraft, Chorus also provides a full suite of regional aviation support services like aircraft acquisition, aircraft re-purposing, fleet management, contract flying, engineering, aircraft and component maintenance, leasing, disassembly, and parts provisioning/logistics.

Good Q3 numbers

The company has turned in a profit every quarter since its debut in 2006, and its Q3 results for 2019 were no exception.

In the September quarter, adjusted EBITDA came in at $92.6 million, growing by $5.8 million, in large part due to a 78% increase in adjusted EBITDA in the Regional Aircraft Leasing segment, with 12 leasing transactions closing in the quarter.

Adjusted earnings per share grew by 12.5% from the second quarter of this year primarily due to a 76% increase in earnings before tax in the Regional Aircraft Leasing segment. Adjusted net income came in at $29.2 million, a decrease of $1.6 million.

The company is assured of a steady stream of revenue. Joseph D. Randell, president and CEO, said, “Over 90% of our revenue secured through long-term contracts, our business is predictable and transparent. We currently have a minimum of approximately $2.5 billion in future contracted revenue. Our business delivered results that once again met our expectations, and we made advancements in growing our leasing business.”

The leasing game

Chorus’s leasing business is generating a lot of traction. As Fool contributor Nelson Smith pointed out, leasing is the big area of growth for Chorus, and the company is making large strides in this space.

It’s a simple play. Chorus buys aircraft, leases them back to airlines, retaining ownership until the lease expiration date. When it expires, Chorus has the option to lease it again, sell it, or use the aircraft for the company.

Chorus completed its first sale of leased assets — three Dash 8-400s on lease since 2017 for net proceeds of approximately $25 million after debt repayment. Chorus also added Malindo Air, a member of the Lion Air Group, to the leasing portfolio, expanding the company’s reach into Southeast Asia.

While the regional market in North America is saturated, Chorus doesn’t see the demand going down anytime soon with a strong pipeline.

Analysts tracking the stock have given it an average target of $9.50 — an upside of almost 18% from current levels. When you include the dividend payout, this is a deal you want to take.

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[mitchbeck]

CANTLON'S CORNER: WOLF PACK OFF SEASON REPORT - VOLUME 7

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - The ECHL's Kelly Cup has been won. The AHL's Calder Cup winner was decided. On Wednesday night, the top award in professional hockey, the Stanley Cup will be awarded to either the St. Louis Blues or the hosting Boston Bruins. While that might be the top talk of the sport right now, it's not all that's going on in what was once again another busy week in the off-season. PACK UPDATE When JD speaketh people listen. In his first interview since taking over the Presidency of the New York Rangers, John Davidson spoke about the direction of the organization he now commands will be taking. The first topic he spoke about was here in Hartford and the dysfunction that has been the Wolf Pack over the past five years which is how long it's been since their last playoff appearance. Not only have they not made the playoffs, but the Wolf Pack have been languishing at or near the bottom of the entire AHL over that span. It's been one season worse than the next with no winning, no player development, and no fan happiness. Read about it HERE. LARRY PLEAU FEATURE Larry Pleau is one of the true Hartford Whaler legends. In his early career, the Lynn, MA native played for the 1963-64 Memorial Cup finalists Montreal N.D.G. (Notre Dame de Grace) Monarchs with future NHL’ers Carol Vadnais and Rogie Vachon, and the head coach was a very young, Scotty Bowman. He played in the AHL just before the WHA emerged. He played for the first Montreal-based team AHL team, the Voyageurs. They finished tops in a nine-team AHL but lost a second-round, three-team round-robin series to Buffalo and Springfield. He played for Montreal in 1971-72, after starting with the AHL team that moved to Nova Scotia, that lost to the Rangers in six games. Pleau jumped to the renegade WHA the following year. He played for the New England Whalers in their first season in Boston where they won the WHA Avco Cup. Pleau played all in seven New England Whaler WHA seasons, finishing as the second all-time leading scorer with 372 points to Tom Webster’s 425. He was tops in assists with 215 and second in games played with his 468 to Rick Ley’s 478. Brad Selwood was third with 431. When the Hartford Whalers were born, Pleau was with the team in its early NHL days. After retiring as a player, he worked behind the bench. Pleau as an assistant for two seasons (1979-1981) before being elevated to the head coach where he replaced Don Blackburn in 1981, Pleau was a head coach until 1983 before he making a second foray into the AHL, but as a coach. He was the head coach in Binghamton, who, at the time, was the Whalers' top affiliate, from 1984-1988. He won the AHL Coach of the Year (Louis A. Pieri Award) in 1985-86. He was brought back as a Whalers' head coach once again in 1987 as a mid-season replacement to Jack Evans where he stayed until 1989. Pleau hooked-up for a long association with the Rangers. He was there from 1989-1997 as their assistant GM, and Director of Player Development. He was also the last General Manager for the Rangers' Binghamton affiliate from 1995-1997 before the Rangers moved their farm team to Hartford. He moved on to become the GM of the St. Louis Blues from 1997-2010 and is still in a Senior Advisor role with the Blues. Read a fabulous piece on his relationship with the Blues HERE. CALDER CUP FINALS The high-speed hockey train called the Charlotte Checkers won their first Calder Cup title. Trailing by a 3-1 score on Thursday night, the Checkers dominated the second half of the game and scored four unanswered goals for a 5-3 win over the Chicago Wolves. They then went on to clinch their first title Saturday night in Chicago with another 5-3 win. In the deciding game, Morgan Geekie had a goal and two points, Andrew Poturalski scored twice and Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 26 of the 29 shots to have AHL Commissioner, Dave Andrews, come down and present the team with the Calder Cup. In Game 4, Nicolas Roy scored two goals, Martin Necas also chipped in with two points and ex-Wolf Pack, Dustin Tokarski, picked up his sixth win in the AHL post-season without a loss. Tokarski finished the campaign with a 13-0 record since being reassigned to Charlotte by the Rangers on February 28th in a swap that sent defenseman Josh Wesley to Hartford. The last Wolf Pack playoff win was on May 15, 2015, in a 6-3 win over the Hershey Bears. The Pack was led by Marek Hrvik, who had a hat trick. The Pack has had 56 franchise hat tricks during the regular season, but only four in the playoffs. The record for goals in a playoff game is held by Chris Kenady. He had four goals on April 20, 2000, against Springfield. Also that year, the Manchester Monarchs, in their last AHL season, swept the Pack en route to the Calder Cup. They scored the game’s first goal in 15 of the 19 playoffs games that year winning all 15 games. Charlotte’s performance is the only team that has come close to that level of perfection, During this playoff season, the Checkers scored first eight times, but in three of their wins, the opponent scored first.  KELLY CUP FINALS In their first ECHL season, the Newfound Growlers captured the championship in six games. They won the decisive championship game 4-3 over the Toledo Walleye at Mile One Centre in St. John’s. They became the first, first-year team to win the title since the Greensboro Monarchs in 1990, who were then coached by former Whaler, Jeff Brubaker. Former QU Bobcat goalie Michael Garteig played in 19 playoff contests for the championship squad. Five members of the team were from St. John’s, starting with playoff MVP, Zach O’Brien (16 goals and 29 points), and including captain James Melindy, Marcus Power, and Adam Pardy (Bonavista), a former NHL defenseman rounded out the playing quartet. After the game, Pardy announced he was retiring after giving his nephew a championship to see in person. The fifth Newfie was former New Haven Nighthawk, and Rangers assistant coach, and Mt. Pearl native, Darryl Williams, who is in his second coaching stint in his native province. The first was with the St. John’s Fog Devils (QMJHL) where, for three seasons, he was an assistant coach. He was hired temporarily in December with the medical absence taken by head coach and ex-Ranger, Ryane Clowe. He was formally added to the staff at the end of January. Williams is a St. John’s resident. Williams was a rough and tumble player during his skating days. He had 495 PIM in 136 AHL games along with 29 goals and 56 points. They all came during his time with New Haven, "Willy," as he was known, played and racked up 1,906 PIM in 540 IHL games along with 98 goals and 224 points. He played with Phoenix, Long Beach, and Detroit. He played in only two NHL games in 1992-’83 and had 10 PIM. Ex-Pack, Matt Register, played for the runner-up, Toledo Walleye. He climbed the statistical ECH playoff ladder with 124 playoff games played and 14 assists in the Kelly Cup Finals. UCONN 2019-20 SCHEDULE RELEASED The Huskies hit the XL Center for the first time on November 11th and 13th. It's a Friday and Saturday night with two non-conference games against Army (WCHA) for the home opener and then RPI from ECACHL conference the following night. The first Hockey East game will be against Merrimack on November 1st. They then will mark their visit ever from Miami (OH) (NCHC) on November 29-30, a week after Thanksgiving. The first-ever Connecticut Ice tourney with all four CT Division I college teams is from January 25th and 26th at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. The schedule is HERE. NAHL DRAFT One of the last two major North American drafts was held last Tuesday when the US Tier II junior circuit-the North American Hockey league. Here are the CT connected draftees. Matt Crasa (Selects Academy at South Kent Prep) was selected in the second round (31st overall) by the Amarillo (TX) Bulls. Crasa is a Sacred Heart University (AHA) commit for 2020-21. He was drafted by the Sioux City Stampede (USHL) this spring and by Windsor Spitfires (OHL) in 2017 Cooper Swift, (West Hartford/Choate Prep) also went in the second round (35th overall) by the Jamestown Rebels. He was selected by the Fargo Force (USHL) in their draft earlier in the spring. Corey Clifton was drafted in the third round (55th overall) by the Corpus Christi (TX) IceRays. He will become the third Clifton from his Matawan, NJ family to play at Quinnipiac University (ECACHL) in 2020-21. He played this season with the Surrey Eagles (BCHL) and was just traded this week to the Trail Smoke Eaters to play next season. He was drafted by Muskegon Lumberjacks (USHL) in 2017 and previously by the Aston Rebels (NAHL) in 2017. His brother, Connor Clifton, is competing for the Stanley Cup with the Bruins while his oldest brother, Tim Clifton, is with the San Jose Barracuda (AHL). Ian Pierce of Kent Prep went in the third round (60th overall) to the St. Cloud Blizzard. He is a Dartmouth (ECACHL) commit for 2020-21. Kennedy O’Connor (Loomis Chaffee) also went in round three (67th overall) to the Shreveport (LA) Mudbugs. He is a UMASS-Amherst (HE) commit for 2021-22. The Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) took him in their draft in April. Carter Primo Self, (Selects Academy at South Kent Prep) was taken in the fifth round (127th overall) by the Amarillo Bulls and is a Miami (OH) (NCHC) commit for 2020-21. Matt Iasenza of Canterbury Prep (New Milford) went in the sixth round (144th overall) to the New Jersey Titans and has no college commit at this time. Philip Ekberg of the CT Jr, Rangers (USPHL) was taken in the ninth round (212th overall) by the Maryland Black Bears and also in uncommitted at this time. Logan Martinson, the son of former Nighthawk, Steve Martinson, the current coach of Allen (ECHL), was taken in the tenth round (236th overall) by the New Mexico Ice Wolves. He was selected by Langley (BCHL) in their 2018 Draft and in 2017 by Tri-City (USHL). The another CT Jr. Ranger was taken. Maxim Kuznetsov went in the tenth round (260th overall) by the Johnstown. Tomahawks. The last amateur draft before the NHL Draft in Vancouver in two weeks will be the QMJHL (Quebec Major Junior Hockey League) in Quebec City on Saturday at the Videotron Centre. PLAYER & COACHING MOVEMENT Ex-Sound Tiger head coach Jack Capuano was hired as an associate head coach for the Ottawa Senators. Five more AHL’ers leaves for Europe. Josh Jooris, the ex-Ranger, leaves the Toronto Marlies and heads to HC Lausanne (Switzerland-LNA) on a rare three-year deal. Jooris holds Swiss citizenship. When his father Mark Jooris, a Vancouver scout and Junior A coach, played for Lausanne in the 1990s, he also played some junior hockey there before they returning to Canada. Libor Sulak leaves Grand Rapids for Severstal Cherepovets (Russia-KHL). Braden Christoffer goes from Bakersfield to Sterjen (Norway-NEL). Travis Murphy and Andrej Suster both go from San Diego to Kunlun (China-KHL) on two-year deals. These exits make 36 AHL’ers to sign in Europe. 21 of the league's 31 teams have now lost at least one player to Europe. Ex-Sound Tiger defenseman Mathieu Gagnon Brampton (ECHL) signs with Manchester (England-EIHL). Kevin Morris, (Salisbury Prep), the son of ex-Nighthawk, Mark Morris, announces his retirement after playing with Coventry (England-EIHL) this past season. He completed his MBA and heads off to the working world. Alex Barron (Quinnipiac University) signs with HK Dukla Michalovce (Slovakia-SLEL) after splitting last season with EHC Freiburg (Germany DEL-2) and HK SKP Propad (Slovakia-SLEL). Mitch Ferguson of Division III SUNY-Geneseo (SUNYAC) signs with GHC Bordeaux (France-FREL) next season. That raises the number of college players signing in Europe to 33 and the total number of collegians to have signed pro deals art 218. Ex-Sound Tiger, Peter Mannino, who was let go at the University Miami (OH) (NCHC) as their associate head coach, doesn't stay unemployed long. He lands with the Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) as their new head coach. The Sioux Falls Stampede are the new USHL Clark Cup champions. They completed a three-game sweep in their best-of-five final over the Chicago Steel by the score of 5-1. Leading the way for Sioux Falls was goaltender Jaxson Stauber, the son of former Wolf Pack and Nighthawk goalie, Robb Stauber. The younger Stauber head to the University Minnesota-Mankato (NCHC) in the fall. Chicago was led by their head coach, the former Wolf Pack captain, and Sound Tiger, Greg Moore. THE CRAZY WORLD OF BILLY TIBBETTS The following link is of ex-Pack, Ranger, and Danbury Whaler, Billy Tibbetts. He actually ran for the Scituate, MA city council and lost. It’s a tour de force performance of classic Tibbetts and his riding high, riding low. It's unfiltered, raw, and unbridled. WARNING: For those sensitive to foul language, there are swear-words in some of these series of one and two-minute video clips. Tibbets is a lot of things, boring isn't one of them. HERE Read the full article

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This day in hockey history, May 4th 1976, the New York Islanders defeated the Montreal Canadiens 5-2 in game four of the Stanley Cup Semi-Finals.for their only defeat in the 1976 playoffs with former Canadiens player Jude Drouin scoring two goals.

Drouin was drafted by Montreal in the third round of the 1966 NHL Amateur Draft, 17th overall, after playing for the Montreal Junior Canadiens of the Quebec Major Junior League. In the 1965-66 season he scored 32 goals and 68 points in 47 games for the Juniors. He turned pro playing for Montreal's CHL farm team the Houston Apollos of the Central Hockey League and scored 68 points in 60 games. He also played nine NHL games with the Habs, scoring one assist.

In 1969-70 Drouin played with Montreal's legendary AHL farm team the Nova Scotia Voyageurs where he led the league in scoring with 106 points in 65 games and won the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award for rookie of the year.

Drouin was traded to the Minnesota North Stars where he became a star, scoring 68 points in 1969-70 and adding 12 points in 12 playoff games. Drouin was a mainstay of the North Stars for four and a half seasons with his best season coming in 1972-73 when he scored career highs of 27 goals and 73 points.

His production fell thereafter, and he was traded in mid season in 1975 to the New York Islanders. The trade rejuvenated Drouin, and he was an effective two way player for three seasons with the Islanders who under GM Bill Torrey and head scout Jimmy Devellano were beginning to assemble their future Stanley Cup dynasty.

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There's talk among the Blues fandom that Ryan O'Reilly should be a candidate for the Selke Trophy. I immediately wondered if a Blue had ever won the award, and after a bit of research, I discovered Rick Meagher.

Undrafted after four productive years at Boston University, he was signed as a free agent by the Montreal Canadiens, and assigned to their AHL club, the Nova Scotia Voyageurs. Despite putting up good numbers for three seasons and two games on the big club, he was traded to the Hartford Whalers. Again, he produced reasonably well, but still spent time between Hartford and Triple-A Binghamton. Once again, he was traded, and again, split duties between the New Jersey Devils and Maine Mariners.

He finally earned full-time major league status after being traded to the St. Louis Blues. Playing on a line with Bernie Federko, he was as productive as ever. In thy he 1989-90 season, he was named team captain, and his remarkable two-way play earned him the Frank J. Selke Trophy, awarded to the forward who best excels in the defencive game.

And with the way Ryan O'Reilly has been playing, maybe St. Louis will see another Selke winner...

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Halifax-area wildfire 50 per cent contained as crews deal with record heat in forecast

A wildfire that began burning in the Upper Tantallon, N.S., area Sunday and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents is now 50 per cent contained.

David Steeves, a forest resources technician with the province’s Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, said Thursday morning the size of the fire has also not grown -- and remains at 837 hectares.

While the update is good news, Steeves stressed it is still a “dangerous and volatile” situation.

"We are far from being out of the woods. Just because we have a level of percentage of containment does not mean the decrease and the importance of safety in this situation has lowered."

Temperatures are expected to reach the high 20s and low 30s for much of the Maritimes Thursday, and Steeves said crews are likely to deal with spot fires are flare-ups during that time.

"If we can get past this period, we have some precipitation on the way that we're looking forward to, so our fingers are crossed that we're going to receive that precipitation and help us a little bit. We need Mother Nature to get on side with us,” he said.

Halifax Fire deputy chief David Meldrum said the rain is only one variable at play in the decision to allow people to return to their homes.

Residents of the Indigo Shores area were allowed back to their homes Wednesday night after an evacuation order was rescinded.

“We will open more,” Meldrum said. “But we will do it in a controlled manner, and in a manner that ensures the safety of our residents.”

Meldrum added fire officials have completed their audit of the damaged and destroyed buildings in the Tantallon area, though he did not have exact numbers Thursday morning.

He also stressed the importance of residents registering with 311 so municipal staff can get in contact with them with information about their homes.

EVACUATION ORDERS

Evacuation orders are still in place for residents in the following communities:

Westwood subdivision, Upper Tantallon

Whitehills subdivision, Hammonds Plains

Highland Park subdivision, Yankeetown

Haliburton Hills

Pockwock Road

Glen Arbour

Lucasville Road to Sackville Drive

Maplewood

Voyageur Way

St George Boulevard, including all side streets

McCabe Lake area

EVACUATION CENTRE

The Canada Games Centre evacuation centre at 26 Thomas Raddall Dr. is open until further notice.

Nova Scotia Health’s mobility primary care clinic is hosting another drop-in clinic at the center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The HRM says major insurance companies will again be available to speak with affected residents from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

COMFORT CENTRES

The following comfort centres are open Thursday:

Black Point and Area Community Centre at 8579 St Margarets Bay Rd. will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Beaver Bank Kinsac Community Centre at 1583 Beaver Bank Rd. will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

SCHOOLS

The Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) says the following schools are closed Thursday:

Bay View High School

Tantallon Junior Elementary

Tantallon Senior Elementary

Five Bridges Junior High

St. Margaret’s Bay Elementary

Kingswood Elementary

Charles P. Allen High School

Basinview Drive Community School

Bedford South School

Harry R. Hamilton Elementary

Millwood Elementary

Millwood High School

Sackville Heights Elementary

Sackville Heights Junior High

HRCE also says Hammonds Plains Consolidated and Madeline Symonds Middle School will remain closed for the rest of the week.

POWER

As of 9 a.m. Thursday, more than 3,000 Nova Scotia Power customers in the Upper Tantallon and Hammonds Plains areas remain without electricity.

TRANSIT ROUTES

The HRM says the following Halifax Transit routes continue to be affected Thursday:

Route 330 will start and end at Sheldrake Lake -- 3826 St Margarets Bay Rd. There will be no service to the Tantallon Park and Ride located at 3664 Hammonds Plains Rd.

Route 433 will start and end at the West Bedford Park and Ride located at 120 Innovation Dr. There will be no service on Hammonds Plains Road from Gary Martin Drive to Tantallon Park and Ride.

Route 83/183 will end on Crossfield Ridge in Middle Sackville, N.S. The HRM says the bus will then turn right on Sackville Drive and right onto Melham Drive. Routes 83/183 will hold on Melham Drive before departing, heading back to the Sackville Transit Terminal at 7 Walker Ave.

FIRE WEBPAGE

The Nova Scotia government continues to update its new webpage with the latest emergency alerts and resource information about wildfires in the province. 

For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page.

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⁠ Tune into @TheCurrentCBC to hear Cheryl Foggo talking to Matt Galloway about the truth behind the legend of John Ware. Link to show page in the bio.⁠ ⁠ The film she was working on when we met has been re-titled "John Ware Reclaimed" and is now on at the Vancouver and Calgary Film Festivals. ⁠ Here's my original post:⁠ ⁠ It was perfect timing.⁠ I'd spent two weeks doing school and community presentations in and around Lethbridge with the Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta, stopped in at John Ware's Cabin in Dinosaur Provincial Park and headed back to Calgary to have dinner with friends. I'd heard about playwright Cheryl Foggo and her show, "John Ware Reimagined" and reached out to see if she might have time to meet me in Calgary. She know about Six String Nation and agreed to meet not far from my friends' place.⁠ ⁠ Cheryl is working in that space where history becomes legend and exploring what is potentially lost in that transition. John Ware is a genuinely significant figure in the history of Alberta and Canada but the more Bunyan-esque his legend becomes, the more his real impact on history is obscured. Foggo's play is meant to address that tension between history and legend. With the success of the theatre production, she embarked on a film adaptation with the NFB, featuring African-American rodeo cowboy Fred Whitfield as John Ware.⁠ ⁠ In an amazing coincidence, the DOPs on her film - Doug Munro and Margot McMaster worked on the shoot of the building of Voyageur in Nova Scotia!⁠ ⁠ Meeting Cheryl changed the way I talk about John Ware during the presentation. ⁠ ⁠ Find out more about the Six String Nation project and book a live presentation at https://www.sixstringnation.com⁠ ⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #Alberta #AlbertaHistory #JohnWare #BlackHistory #CanadianHistory #CanEd #CanadianMusic #SocialStudies #CanadianGuitar #acousticguitar #CanadianTeachers #K12 #keynotespeaker #CdnEd #ETFO #OSSTF #onted #oecta #EduQC #AlbertaEd #EdLeaders #OECD #VoiceEd #imaginED #sixstringnation #6SN #johnwarereimagined #cherylfoggo https://instagr.am/p/CFj9n__HKwV/

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#10yrsago Voyageur, a storied guitar made from legends

Yesterday's episode of CBC Radio's As it Happens celebrated Canada Day with an interview with Jowi Taylor, author of

Six String Nation: 64 Pieces, 6 Strings, 1 Country, 1 Guitar

. The book chronicles the creation of Voyageur, a remarkable guitar that was inspired by the near-separation of Canada as a result of a close referendum in Quebec. Taylor crisscrossed the country, collecting artefacts to build a guitar from, from the national (former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's canoe paddle) to the local (the handle from the oyster shucking knife of a champion Míkmaq shucker); from the wonderful (a piece of a spruce tree held sacred by the Haida) to the tragic (a piece of the Westfahl, Nova Scotia Home for Coloured Children). It combines everything from a piece of a hockey-stick from the most famous hockey game ever played (Canada vs. USSR, 1972) to a piece of Newfoundland's floating X-ray clinic, established to treat the post WWII TB epidemic.

After the guitar was built, by master luthier George Rizsanyi, Taylor took to the road again, getting all manner of people to play it, from Canadian musical legends (Gordon Lightfoot on his birthday, in his home) to world-famous musicians touring the country, to hundreds of ordinary people, who were all able to touch, hold and play this remarkable instrument (it has a case that is every bit as storied, of course -- part of it is sewn from the trousers of veteran hockey announcer Don Cherry!).

The net effect is of an instrument -- an artefact -- that is sacred and profane, precious and invaluable, common and unique. Marketers try to imbue their products with stories in order to create emotional ties with customers (think of Apple's Think Different campaign, or the mythology spun around Walt Disney), but this is the genuine article, a genuinely storied thing that is as much socially constructed as it is physically crafted.

I've asked the publisher for a review copy of Six String Nation (it comes out at the end of July) and if it's as good as it sounds, I'll have a review of it up as soon as I can.

Six String Nation: 64 Pieces, 6 Strings, 1 Country, 1 Guitar (Amazon)

Six String Nation (site)/Guitar Explorer

As it Happens show notes

MP3 Link

https://boingboing.net/2009/07/02/voyageur-a-storied-g.html

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May 10, 2007 was the Big Day for the Railroad Never Sleeps

May 10, 2007 was the Big Day for the Railroad Never Sleeps

On May 10, 2007, I coordinated a team of 37 photographers to document a full day’s worth of North American railway activity from Nova Scotia to southern California and from the Pacific Northwest to southern Florida in what became a book titled The Railroad Never Sleeps published by Voyageur Press. (The book is now out of print and may be collectible).

I’d selected May 10thbecause of the…