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September 08, 2007

Halifax Lupine, Nova Scotia, 1990

Photograph by James P. Blair

A shed stands in a field of lupine in Halifax. After the American Revolution, Nova Scotia was deluged by New Englanders still loyal to the crown and England. Settling farms vacated by Acadians, the recent immigrants doubled the province's population by the 1780s.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in the National Geographic book Canada's Incredible Coasts, 1991)