Wet Acadia

At Halifax, Dartmouth and on Cape Breton Island, thirsty Nova Scotians queued up on the sidewalk white shutters came down, doors were opened and government liquor stores began to operate for the first time since Nova Scotia formally abandoned Prohibition last November (TIME, Nov. 11).

Nova Scotia's drought did not pass bloodlessly. At Truro, whose government liquor store could not be opened for another sennight for lack of supplies, the Rev. D. J. Grant, Chief Inspector of Nova Scotia under the old Nova Scotia Temperance Act staged a last-minute raid on the old Maritime Hotel, long suspected as a speakeasy. Raiders carried out one half-bottle of contraband rum but their chief, the Rev. D. J. Grant, had to be removed to hospital, severely battered.

Two days after the old Temperance Act was abandoned, some 1,000 Acadians, descendants of the French Canadian settlers who were expelled from the country in 1755 (cf. Longfellow's Evangeline) returned from various parts of the U. S. and Canada for a convention.

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