Sir Charles Tupper,1st Baronet,M.D. was a Canadian Father of Confederation who served as the sixth prime minister of Canada from May 1 to July 8,1896. As the premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867,he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He briefly served as the Canadian prime minister,from seven days after parliament had been dissolved,until he resigned on July 8,1896,following his party's loss in the 1896 Canadian federal election. He is the only medical doctor to have ever held the office of prime minister of Canada and his 68-day tenure as prime minister is the shortest in Canadian history.
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson was a Canadian lawyer,judge and politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Canada from 1892 until his death. He had previously been fifth premier of Nova Scotia for a brief period in 1882,and as of 2024,is the only prime minister who was previously a provincial premier.
Sir Adams George Archibald was a Canadian lawyer and politician,and a Father of Confederation. He was based in Nova Scotia for most of his career,though he also served as first Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1870 to 1872.
Robert Lorne Stanfield was a Canadian politician who served as the 17th premier of Nova Scotia from 1956 to 1967 and the leader of the Official Opposition and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1967 to 1976.
The Nova Scotia Liberal Party is a centrist provincial political party in Nova Scotia,Canada and the provincial section of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party currently forms the Official Opposition in Nova Scotia,under the leadership of Zach Churchill. The party was in power most recently from the 2013 election until the 2021 election.
Harold Joseph Connolly was a Canadian journalist,newspaper editor,and politician who served as the 15th premier of Nova Scotia in 1954.
Henry Davies Hicks was a lawyer,university administrator,and politician in Nova Scotia.
The Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia,more commonly known as the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia,is a Red Tory conservative political party in Nova Scotia,Canada. Like most conservative parties in Atlantic Canada,it has been historically associated with the Red Tory faction of Canadian conservatism. The party is currently led by Pictou East MLA Tim Houston. The party won a majority government in the 2021 provincial election. The Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia and the Conservative Party of Canada are two separate entities.
Angus Lewis Macdonald,popularly known as 'Angus L.',was a Canadian lawyer,law professor and politician from Nova Scotia. He served as the Liberal premier of Nova Scotia from 1933 to 1940,when he became the federal minister of defence for naval services. He oversaw the creation of an effective Canadian navy and Allied convoy service during World War II. After the war,he returned to Nova Scotia to become premier again. In the election of 1945,his Liberals returned to power while their main rivals,the Conservatives,failed to win a single seat. The Liberal rallying cry,"All's Well With Angus L.," was so effective that the Conservatives despaired of ever beating Macdonald. He died in office in 1954.
Ernest Howard Armstrong,was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the ninth premier of Nova Scotia from 1923 to 1925.
James Lorimer Ilsley was a Canadian politician and jurist. He was minister of finance from 1940 to 1946. He was finance minister during World War II;to fund the increase in wartime expenditure,he dramatically expanded the income tax by imposing it on millions of workers and citizens.
Province House in Halifax is where the Nova Scotia legislative assembly,known officially as the Nova Scotia House of Assembly,has met every year since 1819,making it the longest serving legislative building in Canada. The building is Canada's oldest house of government. Standing three storeys tall,the structure is considered one of the finest examples of Palladian architecture in North America.
Richard Alphonsus Donahoe,Q.C.,K.S.G. was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Black Nova Scotians are Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily date back to the Colonial United States as slaves or freemen,later arriving in Nova Scotia,Canada,during the 18th and early 19th centuries. As of the 2021 Census of Canada,28,220 Black people live in Nova Scotia,most in Halifax. Since the 1950s,numerous Black Nova Scotians have migrated to Toronto for its larger range of opportunities. The first recorded free African person in Nova Scotia,Mathieu da Costa,a Mikmaq interpreter,was recorded among the founders of Port Royal in 1604. West Africans escaped slavery by coming to Nova Scotia in early British and French Colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. Many came as enslaved people,primarily from the French West Indies to Nova Scotia during the founding of Louisbourg. The second major migration of people to Nova Scotia happened following the American Revolution,when the British evacuated thousands of slaves who had fled to their lines during the war. They were given freedom by the Crown if they joined British lines,and some 3,000 African Americans were resettled in Nova Scotia after the war,where they were known as Black Loyalists. There was also the forced migration of the Jamaican Maroons in 1796,although the British supported the desire of a third of the Loyalists and nearly all of the Maroons to establish Freetown in Sierra Leone four years later,where they formed the Sierra Leone Creole ethnic identity.
Barry Barnet is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Sackville-Beaver Bank and Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2009. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.
Pat Dunn is a Canadian politician. He has represented the electoral district of Pictou Centre in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2006 to 2009,and from 2013 to present,as a member of the Progressive Conservatives. He served as Minister of Health Promotion and Protection in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia.
Karla Michelle MacFarlane is a Canadian politician,who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2013 provincial election. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia,she represents the electoral district of Pictou West. MacFarlane is a graduate of Husson University in Maine with an associate degree in Business Communications. In 2016,MacFarlane was named "Legislator of the Year" at the non-profit Springtide Collective's Better Politics Awards. She was re-elected in the 2017 provincial election.
Iain Thomas Rankin is a Canadian politician who served as the 29th premier of Nova Scotia from February 23,2021,to August 31,2021. He serves in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for the Nova Scotia Liberal Party,representing the electoral district of Timberlea-Prospect. Rankin was first elected in the 2013 Nova Scotia general election and was re-elected in the 2017 general election. On February 6,2021,Rankin was announced the Leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
Frank Roy Davis was a Canadian provincial politician from Nova Scotia. He represented the electoral district of Lunenburg in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1933 to 1948. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
The 2021 Nova Scotia general election was held on August 17,2021,to elect members to the 64th General Assembly of Nova Scotia.
