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Key Events in the History of Nova Scotia: 1837.
- Both Upper and Lower Canada were in rebellion.
- The first Acadian, Simon "Squire" D'Entremont from Yarmouth County, was elected to the provincial legislature.
- Jan 31st: The Fifteenth Assembly of the Nova Scotia Legislature convened.
- With the death of William IV on June 20, 1837, the young Queen Victoria took the English throne and the Victorian period began and lasted into the next century, a period that was marked by peace and prosperity.
- William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861) led his gang down Yonge Street at York (Toronto), but failed in his attempt to seize control of the government.
- September 20th: Bank of British North America began operations at Halifax; it eventually became known as the Bank of Montreal.
- Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) is sworn in as President of the United States.
- A German scientist, Theodor Schwann (1810-82), discovered that when meat was "effectually screened from ordinary air, and supplied solely with calcined air [a vacuum] putrefaction never sets in." The revelation that came was that there were unseen noxious things that we could not see that travel in the air! Germs!
- By an act of the legislature Annapolis is divided into two counties, Annapolis and Digby.
- An act in respect to the Halifax Public Gardens.
- Halifax Whaling Co. Incorporated by statute. While other merchants participated, the principal shareholders were the Cunard brothers.
- An act to prevent injuries to the fisheries, by mill dams.
- An act to amend the statute that set up the Bank of Nova Scotia [1832] re eligibility of Directors.
- An Act for "regulating the Fishery of St. Mary's Bay."
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[Forward In Time (1838)]- Both Upper and Lower Canada were in rebellion.
