When the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television show, Singalong Jubilee popularized the lyrics of the old song Farewell to Nova Scotia, they didn’t think someday people might begin to take them literally.

…The Global Parliament of World Peace raised its flag at the scene of Skye Lodge, in the postcard perfect town of Port Hastings, Cape Breton, a 2-1/2 hour drive from Halifax, the Nova Scotian capital and a world renowned port.

…A flag has been raised among the breeze-caressed heather at the newly declared Maharishi Island of World Peace–official headquarters for the Global Parliament of World Peace, near Skye Lodge.

…The town of Port Hastings, Cape Breton, overlooking the famed Canso Causeway, a 2-½ hour drive from Halifax is home to scenic Skye Lodge, where autumn has painted the foliage.

George Island and Piscatqui Island off Nova Scotia Eastern Shore.

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Canada free press
Oct 15 2005
Farewell to Nova Scotia
By Judi McLeod
Saturday, October 15, 2005

When the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television show, Singalong Jubilee popularized the lyrics of the old song Farewell to Nova Scotia, they didn’t think someday people might begin to take them literally.
“Farewell to Nova Scotia,
You sea-bound coast,
Let your mountains dark and dreary be,
For when I am far away on the briny ocean tossed,
Will you ever heave a sign and a wish for me?”

That’s the chorus of the haunting melody, recorded by Canadian singing angel Catherine McKinnon (Something Old, Something New, Arc 256).

Some call Farewell to Nova Scotia “the Nova Scotia Song”. Others declare the song was a sailor’s lament put to music, originating with the Acadians,

“It was derived from the Soldier’s Adieu, attributed to the Scottish weaver-poet Robert Tannahill (1774-1810),” contends the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.

As the leaves were falling this October, Nova Scotia became “the Maharishi Island of World Peace”, at a site tourists the world over flock to see, the Canso Causeway.

The Global Parliament of World Peace raised its flag at the scene of Skye Lodge, in the postcard perfect town of Port Hastings, Cape Breton, a 2-1/2 hour drive from Halifax, the Nova Scotian capital and a world renowned port.

Canada free press
Oct 15 2005
Long touted One World Government lands off Nova Scotia coast
By Judi McLeod
Saturday, October 15, 2005

Who ever thought that when the long threatened One World Order arrived, bagpipes would usher it in?

The inauguration of the so-called Global Parliament of World Peace is taking place even as you read this, off the coast of Nova Scotia in the Maritimes. Or as the friends of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi put it, “the land of the rising sun for North America”.

A flag has been raised among the breeze-caressed heather at the newly declared Maharishi Island of World Peace–official headquarters for the Global Parliament of World Peace, near Skye Lodge.

Pomp and ceremony of inaugural sessions stretch over a four-day period, Oct. 12 through Oct. 16, culminating with a World Peace Banquet where harpists and pianists perform.

The town of Port Hastings, Cape Breton, overlooking the famed Canso Causeway, a 2-½ hour drive from Halifax is home to scenic Skye Lodge, where autumn has painted the foliage.

“The Maharishi Island of World Peace” is situated on Nova Scotia’s east coast near Skye Lodge.

The flag of the Global Country of World Peace was raised on October 12 and ground was broken for the first building of the Global Parliament,

According to a media release …………..

Edited by Tim Harris
Tradewinds Realty Inc.
Chester, NS