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African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning

"Ottawa Museum Features First Canadian Naval VC Winner, William Hall of N.S."

Halifax Chronicle Herald newspaper clipping about a display, on loan from the Province of Nova Scotia, of Hall's medals at the National War Museum in Ottawa.

Date: 18 September 1968

Reference Rear Admiral Hugh F. Pullen Nova Scotia Archives 2023-020/001-72

Questions to Consider

  • When do you think the document was written?



  • Who do you think wrote the document?



  • Why do you think the document was written



  • Who do you think received the document?



  • Who do you think this document was written for?



  • What information do you think this document provides? What do you think it tells us about the past?



  • How do you think the document reflects the attitudes and values of the time period in which it was written?



  • What impact do you think the document had at the time it was written?



    • Do you think those were different impacts for different people?



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