Antigonish
Coat of arms
Motto: Highland Heart of Nova Scotia
Antigonish Location of Antigonish in Nova Scotia
Coordinates: 45°37′N 61°59′W / 45.617, -61.983
Country	Canada
Province	Nova Scotia
Municipality	Antigonish County
Founded	1784
Incorporated	January 9, 1889
Government
- Type	Town Council
- Mayor	Kay Chisholm
- Governing Body	Antigonish Town Council
Area
- Town	5.15 km² (2 sq mi)
Highest elevation	34 m (112 ft)
Lowest elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population (2006)
- Town	4,236
- Density	823.3/km² (2,132.3/sq mi)
- Urban	4,665
Time zone	AST (UTC-4)
- Summer (DST)	ADT (UTC-3)
Canadian Postal code	B2G
Area code(s)	902
Telephone Exchanges	318 735 863 867 870 872 948 971
Median Earnings*	$41,773
NTS Map	011F12
GNBC Code	CAATB
*Median household income, 2000 ($) (all households) {
Website: http://www.townofantigonish.ca/

Coordinates: 45°37′35.48″N, 61°59′53.71″W Antigonish (IPA: /ˌæntigoʊˈnɪʃ/) (2006 population: 4,236) is a Canadian town in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. Image File history File links Ant-town. ... For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links Red_pog2. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 11 Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Nova_Scotia. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 11 Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867... Antigonish County, Nova Scotia is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... Elevation histogram of the surface of the Earth – approximately 71% of the Earths surface is covered with water. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. ... Population density per square kilometre by country, 2006 Population density map of the world in 1994. ... Cities with at least a million inhabitants in 2006 An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... The Atlantic Standard Time Zone (AST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... −12 | −11 | −10 | −9:30 | −9 | −8 | −7 | −6 | −5 | −4 | −3:30 | −3 | −2:30 | −2 | −1 | −0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... Although DST is common in Europe and North America, most of the worlds people do not use it. ... −12 | −11 | −10 | −9:30 | −9 | −8 | −7 | −6 | −5 | −4 | −3:30 | −3 | −2:30 | −2 | −1 | −0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... A Canadian postal code is a string of six characters that forms part of a postal address in Canada. ... Nova Scotia - 76 FSAs Categories: Canada Post ... A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating telephone number ranges to countries, regions, areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks such as mobile phone networks. ... Area code 902 is the telephone area code in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, encompassing the whole of both provinces. ... A telephone operator manually connecting calls with patch cables at a telephone switchboard. ... The National Topographic System or NTS is the topographic system used by Canada for providing general purpose maps of the country. ... Geographical Names Board of Canada a national committee of the Canadian Government Department of National Resources which authorizes the names used on official federal government maps of Canada since 1897. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Antigonish County, Nova Scotia is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ...

The town is home to St. Francis Xavier University and the oldest continuous highland games in North America. St. ... Opening ceremonies of 2004 Canmore Highland games Highland games are events held throughout the year in Scotland and other countries as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and heritage, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. ... North American redirects here. ...

History

• The name Antigonish is of Mi'kmaq origin and is believed to refer to the place where tree branches are torn off by bears gathering beechnuts.
• The first European settlement took place in 1784 when Colonel Timothy Hierlihy received a large land grant surrounding Antigonish Harbour. Hierlihy and his party founded a settlement called Dorchester, named in honour of Sir Guy Carleton, who was Governor General of Canada and subsequently Lord Dorchester.
• In 1796 a local settler, with the assistance of a First Nations guide, blazed a trail from Antigonish Harbour to Brown's Mountain, using the shortest route. This trail became a guide for travelers and eventually evolved into a winding Main Street.
• By the late 1820s, Dorchester was commonly referred to as Antigonish.
• St. Francis Xavier University was founded in 1853 and moved to Antigonish, from Arichat, Cape Breton, in 1855. It was originally a Catholic seminary. St. Francis Xavier was granted full university powers in 1866 by an act of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The town is also the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish.
• The local newspaper, The Casket, was first published on January 1, 1861.
• The first Antigonish Highland Games were held in 1863 to raise funds for the construction of St. Ninian's Cathedral.
• Sydney County was renamed Antigonish County in 1864.
• Antigonish was incorporated as a town in 1889.
• The first hospital in Antigonish opened on June 10, 1906.
• The Antigonish Movement was launched from St. Francis Xavier University in the 1920s by local priests and educators including Rev. Dr. Moses Coady and Father Jimmy Tompkins

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Education

St. Francis Xavier University is located in Antigonish. St. Francis Xavier has 4,000 full-time students and 500 part-time students. It has been named as the best undergraduate university in Canada by Maclean's magazine for five consecutive years (2002–2006). St. Francis Xavier is also well known for the X-Ring and the Coady International Institute. A cover of the Canadian magazine Macleans. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

The elementary and secondary schools in Antigonish fall under the jurisdiction of the Strait Regional School Board. Antigonish is home to three public schools: Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High School, St. Andrew Junior School and the Antigonish Education Centre. The Strait Regional School Board operates 26 schools in the counties of Richmond, Antigonish, Inverness, and Guysborough in Nova Scotia. ... Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High School (often referred to as the Regional) is a secondary school located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. ... St. ...

Economy

Antigonish is considered to be a service centre as many of the local businesses are based in the service sector. There are no major industrial operations located in the town or county. The workforce is primarily white collar with the largest employers being St. Martha's Regional Hospital and St. Francis Xavier University. Another major employer in Antigonish is Canada Post's National Philatelic Centre, which provides mail-order services for worldwide collectors of Canadian stamps. The tertiary sector of industry, also called the service sector or the service industry, is one of the three main industrial categories of a developed economy, the others being the secondary industry (manufacturing and primary goods production such as agriculture), and primary industry (extraction such as mining and fishing). ... White-collar workers perform tasks which are less laborious yet often more highly paid than blue-collar workers, who do manual work. ... Canada Post Corporation (French: Société canadienne des postes) is a Canadian postal service operated as a crown corporation. ...

Town Hall, Main Street, Antigonish

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2004-06 building boom

The Antigonish area experienced great deal of economic growth retail development over the past two years. The retail landscape of the town and county changed significantly because of a building boom. Much of the growth has taken place in the Post Road area, just outside of town. Atlantic Superstore, Wal-Mart, and Central have constructed new stores while the former Atlantic SuperValu, also located in this area, has been redeveloped as a Staples Business Depot. Atlantic Superstore is a supermarket chain of 51 stores in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... Central Home Improvement Warehouse is a chain of home improvement stores in eastern Canada. ... Staples Business Depot is a retail brand of The Business Depot, Ltd. ...

Other areas have also seen growth. In June 2005, Shoppers Drug Mart opened a new store downtown while the NSLC opened a new store attached to the existing Sobeys store, located next to mall. The following month a new GM dealership opened on the outskirts of town. Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation TSX: SC is Canadas largest pharmacy chain with almost 1000 stores operating under the names Shoppers Drug Mart across Canada (outside of Quebec) and Pharmaprix in Quebec. ... The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation provides Nova Scotia, Canada with alcoholic beverage distribution and sales. ... Sobeys TSX: SBY is a Canadian supermarket chain headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is an American automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ...

A multi-unit retail annex was constructed at the local shopping mall in the spring of 2006. This complex houses a new Cleve's Source for Sports store, Herbal Magic, and a Blockbuster. The mall area also saw the construction of a Boston Pizza restaurant which opened in late 2006. For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see pedestrian street or promenade. ... Blockbuster Inc. ... Boston Pizza is a Canadian-based pizza chain. ...

The new A&W restaurant that opened in February, 2007 could also be considered part of the building boom as construction began in late 2006. A&W restaurant in Page, Arizona A&W Restaurants, Inc. ...

Antigonish is also the home of the International Scouting Service (ISS), an ice hockey scouting bureau that employs over 20 scouts across North America and Europe. The ISS has ties to The Hockey News as well as other scouting bureaus around the world. The ISS is led by general manager Mike Ebbs.

Annexation and amalgamation

The Town of Antigonish is currently embroiled in a dispute with Antigonish County over the issue of annexation and amalgamation. Ceremonies during the annexation of Hawaii. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

Causes

The issue primarily relates to availability of land within town boundaries. Constant development has reduced the amount of undeveloped land within the town. According to Town officials, there is no longer enough land remaining for future expansion of the town. Town officials also suggest that this lack of vacant land is forcing new development into the 'fringe area' of the county that immediately surrounds the town. In an effort to address this situation, the Town applied to the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (a quasi-judicial body that rules on issues related to government in Nova Scotia), on May 7, 2001, for permission to annex 6,503 acres of Antigonish County. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 11 Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867...

Timeline

On May 28, 2001, several weeks after the Town made its application, the County of Antigonish applied to the NSURB to amalgamate with the town. The rationale for the application, as the county cited, were adverse effects related to the loss of tax revenue from annexed lands. is the 148th day of the year (149th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

By January 2002, the town had reduced the amount of land area sought for annexation to 3,814 acres. The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board consolidated the two applications and a public hearing was held over the span of three weeks, from January 26 to February 11, 2004. The hearing was designed to gauge public opinion of the issue. A total of 97 members of the public spoke at the hearings, representing both sides of the issue. After the public hearings were completed, the board was left to deliberate with the evidence it had collected.

On February 7 2005, the board released its preliminary opinion (see Antigonish annexation and amalgamation decision). The 213 page report stated that area residents would be best served by amalgamation. It further ordered that a plebiscite be held in the town and county, no later than September 17, 2005, to determine the degree of support for amalgamation. The board would add the results of the plebiscite to the other evidence and then render a final decision. A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ... is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

However, the town soon appealed the ruling on the grounds that the NSURB does not have the authority to force two municipal units into amalgamation. The plebiscite was postponed while the issue was before the courts.

On October 17, 2005, the Town announced that it would be willing to back off its application for annexation if the County would drop its application for amalgamation. The County declined the offer on the 26th, indicating that it believed it was time to gauge public opinion of the issue with a plebiscite. Related to this, the County has asked that the Town drop its appeal of the NSURB authority and accept a plebiscite. is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Town did not drop its appeal and the issue remained in the courts for another five months. Finally on March 7, 2006 the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal rejected the Town's appeal. This decision paved the way for a plebiscite. Soon after the court ruling, the plebiscite was scheduled for Saturday June 17. is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal is the court of appeal in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. ... is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Notable people from Antigonish

• Ronald J. MacDonald, Runner
• Max Haines, crime writer, columnist for the Toronto Sun
• Shauna MacDonald, actress, also known as "Promo Girl" on CBC Radio One
• Carole MacNeil, television journalist, co-host of CBC News: Sunday and CBC News: Sunday Night
• Stephen McHattie, stage, film and TV actor (born Stephen Smith in 1946)
• Carroll Morgan, Olympic heavyweight boxer
• Jeff Smith , Founder and CEO of Silverback Supplements. Originally from New Glasgow
• Jim Nunn, television journalist, former anchor of the CBC News program Marketplace
• Anne Simpson, poet
• Hugh Thompson, actor
• The Trews, a Canadian rock band
• John Brophy, professional hockey coach
• Dennis Bonvie, minor league hockey player

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References

• Walsh, Patrick (1989). The History of Antigonish. Antigonish, N.S.: Scotia Design Publications, 320. ISBN 0-920147-02-X. 

External links

• Town of Antigonish
• The Municipality of the County of Antigonish
• The Antigonish Regional Development Authority
• Antigonish Highland Games
• Antigonish Golf & Country Club
• St. Francis Xavier University
• Diocese of Antigonish
• Virtual Tour of the Architectural Heritage of Antigonish, Nova Scotia
• StFX Student Union