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Halifax County, Nova Scotia
The Valley Views
Issue 50 12 May 1976

GOLD DISCOVERED

In Sept. 1858 Lieutentant C. L'Estrange went on a hunting trip on the Tangier River which empties into Ship Harbour.  In all probability, John
Pulsifer was his guide when he discovered gold bearing quartz and it would have been John Pulsifer who dislodged the specimen showing a trace
of the metal.  Robert B. Taylor wa also with John Pulsifer when he discovered the gold.  The locale was later given the name of Mooseland.

Because of this discovery, John Pulsifer was the first to find native gold in Nova Scotia

>From the Public Archives of N.S.


OBITUARY

Charles Butler Maclean

Mr. Charles MacLean, born in Meagher's Grant on Feb. 14, 1882, died at  his home in phoenix, Arizona on Apr. 27.  Mr. MacLean, son of the former
William and Isabel MacLean, had enjoyed good health until he fractured his hip earlier this year. Surviving are his three sons, Alton, Phoenix; Ralph, La Puente, Califa.' and Frank, Whittier, Calif; four grandchildren; one sister, Alma (Mrs. Douglas Woodworth), Meagher's Grant; and one brother, Clarence, Powell River, B.C. He was predeceased by his wife, the former Gladys Dares; Two brothers, John and Arthur; and a sister Ivy (Mrs. William Hutton).



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