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Year:
1749
Short description:
Halifax founded
Medium description:
Halifax founded in Nova Scotia as an attempt to counter the influence of the French in Louisbourg, Cape Breton.
Tags:
in Canada
Kiefte, Michael and Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth (2010). Canadian Maritime English. in Schreier, Daniel; Trudgil, Peter; Schneider, Edgar W. & Williams, Jeffrey P..
The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: an introduction
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.59-71 [p.60]