Food From the Sea

Lobster fishrman line the docks awaiting the season to bring in the catch to decorate your table. The seasons for harvesting lobster in Canada are staggered to protect the vulnerable summer moults. While this is a good conservation measure it also ensures that consumers get the tastier, meatier more nutritious lobster that has become a favorite everywhere. Atlantic Lobster is not only delicious, it is highly versatile and one of the most nutritious sources of protein you can find. Canadian Atlantic Lobster is known by many names including: Atlantic Lobster, American Lobster, Canadian Reds, Northern Lobster and Maine Lobster but no matter what you call it, once you’ve tasted our lobster you will know why it is King.

      

       Rock Lobster:  http://youtu.be/Ym_fzUvjl3M

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Hank Snow - Liverpool's Country Music Artist

Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (9th May 1914 - 20th December 1999) ran away from home to escape a brutal stepfater when he was 12 years old and joined a fishing boat as a cabin boy. When he was 14, he ordered his first guitar from an Eatons Department Store catalogue for $5.95, and played his first show in a church basement in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia at age 16. He then sang in local clubs in and around Halifax. He married Minnie Blanche Aalders in 1935 and had one son, Rev. Jimmy Rodgers Snow. His autobiography, The Hank Snow Story, was published in 1994, and later The Hank Snow Country Music Centre opened near his ancestral home in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Music Hall of Fame.  As a victim of child abuse, he established the Hank Snow International Foundation For Prevention Of Child Abuse.

I've Been Everywhere:  http://youtu.be/nwPDETH2Bn8

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Queens General Hospital



Queens General Hospital is growing to meet the needs of the community.

Construction begins:          Spring 2012

Construction complete:      Spring 2014

Grand opening celebration: Summer 2014

The $16 million project, which will result in better care by promoting a healthy community and integrating new and existing health services. The project includes a Primary Health Center located on the main floor of the hospital housing physicians, a nurse practitioner, a family practice nurse, as well as other health professionals. They will work together as a team to enhance access to care and increase emphasis on health promotion, disease and injury prevention and management of chronic diseases.

The project also includes upgrades to the hospital’s existing 22-bed medical unit, which will be moved to partially new and partially renovated space on the second floor of the hospital. The new unit will incorporate advances in technology, equipment and standards of patient care. Wherever possible, the design will incorporate sustainable practices in energy efficiency, water conservation, air quality and material selection.

These changes will result in a better experience for our patients and clients, improve the work environment for staff and support our efforts to recruit and retain health professionals in the future.

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The Privateer Brig - Rover

Rover was a privateer brig out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, known for several bold battles in the Napoleonic Wars. She was built in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia (then known as Herring Cove) over the winter of 1799-1800. Rover was owned by a group of merchants from Liverpool, Nova Scotia and led by Simeon Perkins and Snow Parker. In 1803 she was sold to Halifax owners who employed her as a merchant vessel. Upon the outbreak of the War of 1812 the owners of the Rover quickly converted her to a privateer.  The brig was commanded by Alexander Godfrey under a British letter of marque. During the war the privateer ship was briefly captured by American privateers, eventually being recaptured by the British. The Liverpool Packet was the most successful privateer vessel ever to sail out of a Canadian port

The privateer also inspired the "Ballad of the Rover", a song written in the 1920s by Nova Scotian writer Archibald MacMechan.     

Ballad of the Rover Privateer:   http://youtu.be/eDG4J-6Ab2k

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Ben Heppner in Liverpool

Liverpool's Astor Theatre opened its doors to a full house audience, on March 6th 2011, with Ben Heppner (born January 14, 1956) a Canadian Tenor, specializing in opera and other classical works. Heppner is one of the most prominent dramatic tenors active today.

He is acclaimed in music capitals around the world for his beautiful voice, intelligent musicianship and sparkling dramatic sense.

 Nessun dorma:  http://youtu.be/AcH54Dd7QX4

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Simeon Perkins House - 1766

Simeon Perkins (February 24, 1735 – May 9, 1812) came to Liverpool NS in May of 1762 from Norwich, Connecticut as part of the New England Planter migration.  Perkins immediately began trading in fish and lumber, building ties with New England, Europe , Newfoundland and the West Indies. His diary, which he began in 1766, describes relentless American privateer attacks on shipping and an attempted American looting of Liverpool. Perkins led the outfitting of privateer ships against the Americans. Perkins privateering involvement, granted by the crown, was during the Napoleonic Wars. Simeon Perkins' diary was bequeathed to the town of Liverpool in 1896 and is now in the possession of Queens County Historical Society, as of 1932, where it remains in their possession and on permanent display in the Queens County Museum.

Perkins diary as “a mine of information for the study of economic, political, and social institutions, shedding light not only on the life of a community but also on a region occupying a significant place in the North Atlantic triangular trade and an important position in the evolution of the second British Empire.”

LIVERPOOL IS A HISTORICALLY RICH COMMUNITY.

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The Historical Black Methodist Episcopal Church

The Black Methodist Church
1841 - 1908. 
Black Point (Mersey Point)
Liverpool NS 

It is very difficult to visualize a thriving Black Community in Liverpool history, when today we have so few Black families living here. In May 1787 Simeon Perkins enumerated 50 blacks into Queens County, 20 men, 11 women and 19 children,all but 2 of them into the town of Liverpool. All of them had been promised land; promises never fulfilled. Later some families came here from the United States as Black Loyalists, while others came with their owners. Some made their way here by working on the sailing ships that came to Liverpool from Jamaica, Bermuda and other southern areas. Today some of these families have descendants who still live in the Liverpool area. 

The site on which the church was built, was given by Robert Barry. The land measured 40' by 60' and was located near Black Point.  In 1841, the House of Assembly in Halifax granted 25 pounds to be paid to James Goosely to complete the African Chapel. The church served as both a church and a meeting house for the Black community. The Liverpool Transcript recorded various events that took place at the church - on January 6, 1858, Mr Joseph G Smith gave a lecture at the old Chapel.  Sadly on January 22, 1908, the African Chapel was set fire by an arsonist. In a matter of a few hours the many years of hard work done by the Black community vanished up in smoke.

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