People from Inverness County, Nova Scotia - Alistair MacLeod, Angus Lewis MacDonald, Elizabeth May, Al Macinnis, Moses Coady, Robert Frank (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Alistair MacLeod, Angus Lewis Macdonald, Elizabeth May, Al MacInnis, Moses Coady, Robert Frank, Jimmy Rankin, Allan MacEachen, Ashley MacIsaac, Rodney MacDonald, Natalie MacMaster, Moses E. Kiley, Clive Doucet, Linden MacIntyre, John Allan Cameron, Fred Doucet, Thomas Robert McInnes, Sandy MacIntyre, Buddy MacMaster, Henry Nicholas Paint, James Tompkins, Andrew MacDonald, Daniel Duncan McKenzie, The Rankin Family, Sidney Earle Smith, Onna White, Daniel Sutherland, Frederick Andrew Laurence, Dan R. MacDonald, Mark Day, Rita Joe, Allan MacMaster, William McDonald, Alexander MacDonald, Glenn Graham, Bruce Beaton, Angus MacLennan, Robin Sharma, Morton MacAuley, Duncan J. Campbell, Alexander Campbell, Kinnon Beaton, Alexander MacLeod. Excerpt: Angus Lewis Macdonald, PC, QC (August 10, 1890 - April 13, 1954), popularly known as 'Angus L.', was a Canadian lawyer, law professor and politician from Nova Scotia. He served as the Liberal premier of Nova Scotia from 1933 to 1940, when he became the federal minister of defence for naval services. He oversaw the creation of an effective Canadian navy and Allied convoy service during World War II. After the war, he returned to Nova Scotia to become premier again. In the election of 1945, his Liberals swept back into power while their main rivals, the Conservatives, failed to win a single seat. The Liberal rallying cry, "All's Well With Angus L.," was so well received that the Conservatives despaired of ever beating Macdonald. He died in office in 1954. Macdonald's more than 15 years as premier brought fundamental changes. Under his leadership, the Nova Scotia government spent more than $100 million paving roads, building bridges, extending electrical transmission lines and improving public education. Macdonald dealt with the mass unemployment of the Great Depression by putting the...