The Golers are a clan comprised of impoverished and inbred people on Nova Scotia's South Mountain, who tortured and abused their children generation after generation. The clan was ignored or shunned by people in the neighboring towns for over two hundred years. They lived with little schooling, rampant unemployment, unsanitary living conditions, and isolation. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... A clan is a group of people united by kinship and descent, which is defined by perceived descent from a common ancestor. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit(Latin) One defends and the other conquers BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NL YT NT NU Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis - Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian... South Mountain may refer to: Battle of South Mountain South Mountains (Arizona), a mountain range in central Arizona South Mountain Park, a municipal park in Phoenix, Arizona South Mountain (Maryland and Pennsylvania), a northern extension of the Blue Ridge Mountains South Mountain (eastern Pennsylvania), a ridge near Allentown, Pennsylvania South...

In 1984, the neighboring communities acted. A thirteen-year-old girl broke down to reveal the scandal. Sixteen adults, men and women, were charged with hundreds of allegations of incest and sexual abuse of children as young as five. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• On South Mountain: The Dark Secrets of the Goler Clan, by David Cruise & Alison Griffiths, Penguin Books, Toronto, Canada, 1998 (Link to Review). ISBN 0670873888 (Viking hardcover), ISBN 0140263691 (Penguin paperback)
• CBC News, Friday, November 13, 1998, 11:41 PM ET - Abuse victim fights to change law

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