![]() Women and girls built sturdy birch-bark-covered wigwams and gathered plants for food and medicinal use. Generation after generation, men and boys hunted in the evergreen forests they fished in the lakes and flowing rivers. "Since time out of mind," the settlementsand campsites of the Mi'kmaq, members of Canada's First Nations people, have dotted the landscape. People have lived in the area for ten thousand years. Located on a small peninsula surrounded by salty water, Halifax is rich with history. But the roots of the story are still there, and they grow deep. Old scars are hidden by sturdy stone houses, and tall trees line remade streets. The people of Halifax add chapters to the story each time they speak the memories of those who lived-and died-at that time. ![]() A museum containing grim reminders and libraries filled with age-old pages share more. ![]() ![]() In the city hall clock tower, the locked-in-place hands on the clock that faces north freeze a moment of the story, left as it was on that long-ago day. Fourteen bells in a memorial tower ring part of the tale. 1 A STORY TO TELL HALIFAX, THE LARGEST CITY OF Nova Scotia, Canada, has a story to tell. ![]()
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