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Article: Celebrating 250 years of representative government in Nova Scotia.
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- Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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Democracy 250 is a non-profit, non-partisan body created by an Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature with the unanimous support of all parties to plan celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the first representative government in Nova Scotia and Canada's first parliamentary democracy. This article looks at how and why Nova Scotia is marking the event.
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When Canada's first parliamentary assembly met on October 2, 1758 in a small wooden building in Halifax it was a modest beginning to Canadian democracy. The first elected assembly consisted of 19 men--all white, all Protestant, all property owners. The significance of the event was captured ...