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Fishing Trip

fishing trip: One is that he died on a fishing trip on the way here from Salem, Mass, according to The Chronicle Herald. The other, bolstered by a gravestone found more than a century and a half ago around Shelburne, is that Knowlton joined the short-lived Scottish colony that William Alexander Jr. founded at Port Royal in 1629. What happened to William Knowlton, born in Middlesex, England in 1584, and the first of his ancestors known to have a connection in Nova Scotia There are two wildly different theories. And there he died in 1632, the same year that the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye gave Acadia back to the French. Which is why Bill C-24, the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, which went into force earlier this month, is as disappointing to him as it is worrisome. One thing that sure is that it hard to get deeper roots in this province than ours, says Curry. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.