The Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame (NSSHF) was known as the Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Centre from 1958 to 1988. It is a non-profit organization incorporated under the Societies Act. The Centre portrayed, permanently recorded, and made available to the public information and achievements of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia. Prior to the Internet, it did so by publishing books, periodicals, and pamphlets; conducting programs of education; and maintaining an archives of sport. The Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Centre came into existence when the Nova Scotia Hall of Fame, created in 1958, was handed over to Sport Nova Scotia and subsequently renamed the Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Centre. The Centre was administered by a Board of Governors that consisted of six regional governors, a chairman, past chairman, and treasurer. The Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame continues as a non-profit registered charity providing a free museum, free educational programming, and a collection of sport-related records and memorabilia fully accessible online.
The Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company was incorporated federally in 1898 as the NS Iron and Steel Company Ltd. Its name was subsequently amended in 1901 [NS Statutes, 1901, ca. 158]. The new company was an amalgamation of several smaller steel, iron and coal companies that had been established in Cape Breton and northern Nova Scotia in the 19th century. In 1900 the NS Steel Company had purchased coal leases for the collieries and mines of the General Mining Association of London. These leases included the Sydney Mines and Point Aconi areas, whose seams were considered to be of superior quality. In 1901 an integrated steel mill was established on the southeast side of Sydney Harbour in Whitney Pier, by the newly-formed Dominion Iron and Steel Company Limited (DISCO). DISCO merged with the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company (SCOTIA) in 1920 to form the British Empire Steel Corporation (BESCO). BESCO reorganized as Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (DOSCO)in 1930. The Hawker-Siddley Group bought the steel plant in 1957 and operated it for ten years. In 1966 DOSCO and its parent corporation, A.V. Roe Canada Ltd., announced that its coal operations would be terminated. This action precipitated a series of events that resulted in the federal government stepping in to take over the Cape Breton collieries. In February 1967 it established a federal crown corporation, the Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO.) This decision led to the subsequent provincialization of the DOSCO steel plant, renamed the Sydney Steel Corporation (SYSCO).
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has its origins in the powers given to Governor Edward Cornwallis in the Commission and Royal Instructions issued in London on 6 May 1749. By that instrument, the governor was given plenary powers in judicial matters to establish courts of justice. In 1750, Cornwallis established the General Court, consisting of the Governor and Council. In 1754, the General Court was replaced by the Supreme Court, with Jonathan Belcher appointed first chief justice. During its first two decades the Supreme Court operated only at Halifax. However, between 1774 and 1816 a circuit system was established throughout the province, with individual circuit courts having all the powers of the court at Halifax. The Supreme Court began as a criminal court but soon assumed a civil jurisdiction as well. Its jurisdiction has continued to evolve over its long and complex history. The Supreme Court's procedure was codified with the passage of the Judicature Act in 1884. When acting as a court of original jurisdiction, one judge presided; as an appellate court, cases were heard by the full court sitting at Halifax. Amendments enacted in 1962, and effective in 1966, replaced this arrangement with a formally constituted Appeal Division of the Supreme Court, separated from the Trial Division, which was set up at the same time. In 1992 the Court Reform Act reconstituted the Appeal Division as a separate court - the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834, the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Annapolis was one of three initial supreme court circuit sites established in 1774. In 1793 a court house and gaol were built at Annapolis Royal. By 1800 court sittings were divided between Digby and Annapolis, an arrrangement that continued until Digby became a separate county in 1837. From 1869 to 1923, when fire struck in Bridgetown, Supreme Court sessions in Annapolis County alternated between sitting in Bridgetown and Annapolis Royal.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. The circuit court sitting at Antigonish was established in 1816. It served all of Sydney County (present day Guysborough and Antigonish counties) until 1834, when a sitting was established at Guysborough.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Cape Breton Island, as a separate colony from 1784 to 1820, had its own supreme court which sat at Sydney. With reannexation in 1820, supreme court circuit sessions were established at Sydney. The circuit initially served the area of present day Cape Breton, Inverness and Victoria counties. In 1834 a circuit court sitting was established at Port Hood to serve the area of Inverness, which became a county the following year. The area of the Cape Breton circuit was further reduced in 1851, when Victoria became a separate county with its own circuit court.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Sittings in the District of Colchester (part of Halifax County until Colchester became separate in 1835) were established in 1802. Although initially in Onslow, the court's place of sitting moved to Truro in 1804.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Amherst was one of three initial supreme court circuit sites established in 1774. At times sessions were held in River Philip, until a court house was erected in Amherst in 1840. Destroyed by fire in 1887 the wooden court house was replaced by the present brick structure in 1888.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. The supreme court sitting at Digby was established in 1838, a year after Digby became a separate county. Although in 1861 the county was divided into two districts, Digby and Clare, with each district holding one sitting, this did not result in separate record keeping systems.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Supreme court circuit sittings were established at Guysborough in 1834, in what was the lower district of Sydney County until Guysborough became a separate county in 1836. As the sessions had earlier been split between Guysborough and Antigonish, a court house was already available. When Guysborough County was divided into the Guysborough and St. Mary's districts in 1840, another sitting location was added at Sherbrooke, but no separate records were generated by those sittings.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. With the creation of Hants County in 1781, Windsor was established as a sitting place for the supreme court on circuit.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. In 1834 a supreme court circuit sitting was established at Port Hood, which became the shire town when Inverness became a separate county the following year.
In its first two decades of existence the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia functioned only in Halifax. In 1774 the legislature passed an act providing for the court to add two sessions a year in each of Kings, Annapolis and Cumberland Counties. These courts were invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court at Halifax. Meeting first at Horton, the Kings County circuit court had jurisdiction over present day Kings and Hants counties until 1781, when Hants became a separate county with its own court. In the 1841 legislation revising the courts of the province, Kentville became recognized as the court's seat.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Lunenburg County was one of the five counties established in 1759. However a supreme court sitting was not established there until 1805, likely owing to the proximity of Lunenburg to Halifax by sea. Although both Lunenburg and Bridgewater have court houses, there is only one record keeping system for the county.
After the Supreme Court was established in 1754 there was some demand to accomodate cases outside of Halifax. Between 1774 and 1816 a circuit system was established throughout the province, with individual circuit courts having all the powers of the Supreme Court at Halifax excepting those of appeal.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two of more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. The supreme court sitting at Pictou was established in 1805, in what remained a district of Halifax County until 1835, when Pictou became a separate county.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. The supreme court circuit in Queens County (sitting at Liverpool) was established by statute in 1816.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. A sitting of the supreme court was established at Arichat shortly after Cape Breton Island was reannexed to Nova Scotia in 1820. Richmond became a separate county in 1835.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Although Shelburne County had been established in 1784 and court houses had been erected, the supreme court circuit sitting was not established until 1816. The circuit served all of present day Shelburne and Yarmouth counties until a Yarmouth circuit was set up in 1834.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Baddeck was added to the supreme court circuit in 1851, when Victoria was separated from Cape Breton County.
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Although court houses were available in Yarmouth, a supreme court sitting was not established there until 1834, two years before Yarmouth became a separate county in 1836.
The Nova Scotia Talent Trust was established in Halifax in 1944, primarily to assist the career of Truro born singer, Portia White. Since 1949, the trust has provided financial assistance to support the education and advancement of artists in the field of dance, music, theatre, visual arts, literary arts, and film. In 1959, in cooperation with the Nova Scotia Department of Education, the talent trust began organizing annual summer school benefit concerts featuring performances by professional artists and previous scholarship recipients.
In late 1987, the Task Force on AIDS was established to conduct a wide-ranging, full-scale review of all matters relating to AIDS and HIV in Nova Scotia. The task force was to identify and prioritize issues of concern, hear input from individuals and organizations across the province, and make recommendations to government. Three working groups were established within the task force to study three areas of concern: the legal and ethical issues surrounding HIV-positive persons and persons with AIDS; public information and education programs; and the impact of AIDS on private and public health care. The twenty-one member task force, chaired by W. Andrew MacKay, held public hearings throughout the province in March 1988. Task force members visited England, Australia, New Zealand, Boston, San Francisco, and Vancouver to examine AIDS policies. In September 1988 the task force submitted its final report to the Minister of Health. The report contained forty-seven recommendations relating to AIDS education, care and financial support of HIV-infected persons and ensuring the rights of HIV-infected persons.
An act to establish a normal school for the training of teachers in Nova Scotia was passed in 1854 and a year later the school was established in Truro. In 1908 the name changed from Normal School to Normal College. From 1949, the college was a division of the Department of Education under the direction of the minister. A new building was opened on 23 February 1962 and the name changed to Nova Scotia Teachers College. The college was closed in 1997.
The Nova Scotia Teachers' Union traces its history back to 1895 when representatives from the Provincial Education Association (PEA) proposed a "Teachers' Protective Union" with the dual mandate of protecting the economic welfare of teachers and fostering professionalism. Robert MacLellan, principal of Pictou Academy, was elected first president. In 1896 the Nova Scotia Teachers' Union (NSTU) adopted its first constitution and bylaws during the annual PEA meeting in Truro. By 1921 the NSTU had ratified a new constitution and had begun publication of the Bulletin of the Nova Scotia Teachers' Union. In 1928 the Teachers Pension Act came into effect and that same decade the government amended the Education Act to provide increases in the grant of provincial aid paid to all teachers. An act to incorporate the Nova Scotia Teachers' Union was passed in 1932. In 1953, the NSTU opened its first general office on Barrington Street. The office moved to South Park Street in 1959 and finally to the present location at 3106 Joseph Howe Drive in 1969. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union maintains its original objectives: to unify and promote the teaching profession; improve the quality of education; provide a voice for teachers to the public and legislature; improve the salaries and working conditions of teachers; and provide protection for its members. The union is governed by a provincial executive and serves its members through district local unions and special associations.