my grandfather left nova scotia for new york city looking for work. okay, so this is what really happened. my grandfather was working on a whaling ship, one of the first jobs that young people in nova. if you were a young man got, was working on whalers. all right. he got hurt. one of the whaling expeditions and, the whaling ship dropped him off in new york city and he decided to stay there. all right. he stayed and got work, but the frank slash franklin tradition, both peter and john in world war one, peter served a battalion from canada. john william, my grandfather, served as part of a new york regiment. he married late in life. he eventually settled in iceland. he passed away in lynn in 1966. he never gave up his canadian citizenship. he also he always had a canadian flag hanging in his home on a wall in the dining room and. i always ask them why, do we have a canadian flag in in the house part? and he would say, that is where i am from. he passed along the story of the frank brothers to his two sons. i call him the frank brothers. part two. check

in the early 1900s, my grandfather, left nova scotia for new york city looking for work. this is what really happened. my grandfather was working on a whaling ship, one of the first jobs young people in nova scotia, if you were a young man, got was working on whalers. he got hurt on one of the bo expeditions and the ship dropped him off in new york city and he decided to stay there. he stayed there and got work. but, following the tradition of frank-franklin, both peter and john served in world war i, peter served with the battalion from canada and john william, my grandfather, served as part of a new york regiment. he married late in life, eventually settling in massachusetts, he passed away in lynn, massachusetts in 1866 and never gave up his canadian citizenship, he always had a canadian flag hanging in his home. on a wall in the dining room. i always asked, why do we have a canadian flag in the house? he would say, that is where i am from. he passed along the story of the frank brothers to his two sons. i call them the frank brothers part two, check out the names, my

i have people from nova scotia, and they were like where is that at. that is what intrigued me the most. i got the information, though, about their military service and the military tradition from my uncle ben. my uncle ben was the one that afforded me and gave me all of that information. he was amazing about giving me the information, and he was always right. he was always right. sometimes i would question what he was saying. for instance he said that the first frank came to the americas by way of haiti. i'm like, how do you know that. that is in the oral tradition, yes. i said okay, give me a dnas sample, and he was a match for a young man that lived in the dominican republic. yeah. so, he was always right. always right. yes, sir. yes, ma'am, i'm sorry. >> wonderful talk. insightful research. how wonderful to be born into this fine family. >> thank you. thank you for that. >> anyone else? no? >> do you have family reunions now that you have all of this information? >> not very many. i have been to nova scotia on several occasions, primarily for resea

her father was born and raised in nova scotia, canada. when i first started my research as a family historian, i was trying to answer the question of how my maternal grandfather came to be born and raised in canada. as i started to address that question, another question across. how did the experiences of my ancestors inform us about the experiences and actions of free blacks in revolutionary america. this book is the culminatioof my journey to answer those questions. i want to start with my maternal great grandfather, a guy by the me of thomas henry frankly. he was a landscaperand one of the oldest cemeteries in north america located or is located in annapos royal nova scotia. this picture yosee on the screen there was taken by a local historian by the name of william ingles morse. morswas conducted research for a book on the oldest gravestones in north america. the book is entitled "the gravestones of academy." they had a conversation that day, morse and my an grandfathe. we something like this. what is your name. morse askemy grandfath

him and other loyalists from new york to nova scotia. they were part a large fleet of over 40,000 loyalists heading to nova scotia and other british colonies in north america. ben and others embarked on the brig. the brig. elijah deposited ben franklin and the rest o its passengers ator mouton in late 1783, and that is indicated on the lower map with a red arrow by seven. bypril of 1784, ben had relocated it to the settleme of bardstown,ova scotia, which was several miles northwest of e largest city of schober. beautiful city, shelburne, nova scotia, at point in time, rdstown became the largest free black settlement in north america, wh a population of er 1500 free blacks and. bardstown is just to the left of po mouton. there's shelburne and there's bardstown, many them ledn makeshift huts as you can see on the screen. that's athey look like that is one of the constructed makeshift huts that they lived in some black loyalists found the northern climate and frontier conditions in nova scotia difficult and were subject to discrimination by

her father was born and raised in nova scotia, canada.n i first started my research as a family historian, i was trying to answer the question of how my maternal grandfather came to be born and raised in canada. as i started to address that question, another question arose. excuse me. how did the experiences of my ancestors inform us about the experiences and actions of free blacks in revolutionary america? this book is a culmination of my journey to answer those questions. so i want to start with guby the name of thomas henry fr. he was landscaper in one of the oldest cemeteries nort america which was located --is located inannapolis, royal scotia. this picture you see on the scre there was taken by a local historian by the nameof william sprks ingles morth. she was conducting research the destgravestones in north am. they had a conver th day, morse and great-grandfather. the cotionwent something like this and it is on th screen. what is your name, he d great-grandfather. he responded, my name is henry franklin, uncommon name in thess. m

in nova scotia he ll meet his wife, elizabeth phillips who mes from a well-to-do nova scotia family. a miniature of her on the right of the screen. that belongs to the new york historical society. they will have one son named robert who they call bob. he is promoted to captain and is sent to fight in the french and indian war and par takes in the braddock expedition which goes very poorly. you know, so many officers are killed or wounded that day. gates is among the wounded. he is in the advanced guard commandly by thomas gage who will be a general on the british side in the revolution. gates is shot in the body and left for dead on the ground. and one of the sergeants in the regiment makes a ship for him and carries him to safety and saves his life. he nearly dies on the battlefield in western pennsylvania in 1775 along with many other british and american officers. he spends the next few years on the new york frontier, especially in the mohawk valley where he is fighting french and native indigenous warriors. in 1758 he becomes brigade major, military chief of staff to general john

he was with gates in nova scotia. he and gates are kind of on the same page political that's politically where they're cynical about the way the ministry is going a very critical of britton's treatment of the colonies. increasingly, they are framing america as a place where liberty is kind of a last holdout in america. liberty is disappearing in other locations, but in america, liberty is still rising. liberty is a treat -- retreat across the world. so in 1722 gates decides to move his family to america. initially is a little conflicted about where he is going to move, but he is really focus on either northern virginia or maryland. he ends up finding a tract of land in northern virginia that had been recommended to him by his old army friend, adam steven he settles in berkeley county, virginia, which is nowe ppened in west virginia il war separated. he built a house and called it travelers rest. this house obviously still stands today. it is privately owned. gates did not enjoy satellite- tv like on the left there. [

from from the darkness and when we really learn more about his life is actually when he goes to nova scotia beginning in 1748 1749, he goes there as an aide to general edward cornwall who who was another early patron, and is the is the uncle of charles cornwallis, who will be gates is a nemesis of the battle of camden and the decades down the road. this is like a pattern you see throughout gates in his early life. is that he recognizes that a somebody somebody a pretty middling background if he is going to advance within the british military establishing it's going to be through establishing connections through the more influential patrons people who have more power and influence than he does. and so one of his earliest relationipto build this build this connection with cornwallis which allows him allows se litary advancement early on in nova scotia is going toer father the looters war is to need his his his wife phillips who comes from a fairly well-to-do nova scotia family. you can see a miniature her on thrit there on the screen that is in the villa belongs the new york historical societ

and i think that that probably plays a role, too, in ensuring whether or not people make it to nova scotia or to other points of freedom. boston king who is a formal enslavement from charleston wrote about how they were terrified of the end of the war. it stole sleep from her eyes. we thought that the old masters from virginia, from north and south carolina, would come to new york and take us back there. so they knew what was going on. they knew of the conversation between carleton and washington, and they just have to wait and see what carlton would do. >> and so many of them ended up boarding ships than g evacuated out of new york city and heading out to nova scotia. and indeed one of the things that comes outof of this, and, f course, a lot of the accounts come from the book of negroes who is another account that gives us the names and allow us to see, if you will, many of these individuals who are, who have found the freedom by laboring for the british, being with her british, event evacuating with them. but one of the things you point out with all of this because of this conversation

they also did not expel the french canadians they had done in nova scotia and during the previous war. so these are aberrations, something new is going on. they're looking at the empire differently as however, with these aberrations and where they're starting to do things a little bit differently. this does cause some panic among the arrived anglo canadians, specifically those new englanders who are very passionate about having an assembly about being able to go to a common law jury be right to jury as well as anti-catholicism. also very important for these new englanders. they begin to demand. they begin to argue that the colonial government is infringing on their rights, not just in the fact that they're not supporting protestant supremacy, but the fact that there is no assembly, there is no way to put there's no legitimate means for them to be able to have a check on the power of parliament and the king. this is causing quite a bit of consternation among the anglican and as as good british as would say, they were good britons. they looking to expand the rights of freedom to everyon

. >> their last resting place is halifax in nova scotia, in canada john jacob astor. >> his body wasbrought back to new york state where there was a funeral in trinity church to much fanfare. >> in his death, he became sort of a hero of the titanic because he died in what people considered a very sort of gentlemanly way though, you know, the women in first tradition, the world literally was eager for any morsel of news about the titanic coming from the carpathia when it finally broke, the story was about the scale of the disaster. >> it immediately was a global phenomenon. >> dorothy gibson, the silent film star, almost immediately went to work on a film about the sinking of the titanic she wrote and directed a film where she relived her experiences on titanic. >> it was called saved from the titanic starring none other than dorothy gibson herself, wearing the very same dress that she wore that night. the ship went down. >> it's the only titanic movie to star an actual survivor. the movie was a huge hit. >> people queued around the block to see it and it made dorothy gibson in effect

from the 2024 halifax international security forum in nova scotia, this is an hour. >> i'm mark hetfield. i'm president of hias, which was founded on ellis island in 1903 as the hebrew immigrant aid society, and i opened this session on immigration with a shabbat shalom, not just because it is shabbat, but because the commandment to love the migrant as thyself is repeated in the torah no less than 36 times which, is more often than any other commandment. it's not done this way in my opinion because it's more important than any other commandment, but because it's so easily ignored and forgotten, and what we're seeing today and what we saw in biblical times and ever since is that even faith leaders and political leaders, mass media have gone in completely the opposite direction of this commandment. they promote fear of migrants. they otherize migrants. they dehumanize migrants, and we jews are accustomed to what's known as blood libel, the myth that which went around for centuries that jews killed gentile children to make matah out of their blood. today migrants are being subject to modern

that and more is democratic senator, amy klobuchar coming to us from the halifax security forum in nova scotia us. look. >> thank you very much, jonathan, and it's good to be in canada. i have not moved here. i want to make that clear, and we are -- we're really having a good discussion here. democrats and republicans, with foreign policy leaders about our strong support for ukraine. >> jonathan: so let me ask you about the discussions to come on the confirmations. let's start with pam bondi. you know he serious concerns about trump's first choice, matt gaetz. i think you called him an absurd choice among other things. what about pam bondi? what do you make of her? >> right. well, to make clear, to have matt gaetz who was under investigation for sex trafficking run a department of 115,000 law enforcement people, yeah. i thought it was absurd. pam bondi will have a hearing, and we'll be able to make her views clear. i think the things that i look at is, is someone competent, and are they going to uphold the law? it is so important. it's the lead law enforcement officer for our country, and does

this one comes from nova scotia.any additional duties but this could be 25% higher next year unless the growers eat the cost. and if you think you could get a artificial trees but those come from china and those are facing higher tariffs as well and then the tariffs on decorations and the ornaments on the trees so next year could be a different story. so live it up while you can. >> just spare the christmas trees and the maple syrup from the tariffs. that would be helpful. >> perfectly timed story, contessa. thank you. contessa brewer. >>> let's get a quick check on crypto. up nearly 40% and on pace for best month since october of '21. it is outperforming all but three names within the s&p for the month of november. and check out the moves in related stocks like merrillathon digital or micro strategy, surging big since november 1st. best month since march of this year, marathon the best since december of last. >> after the break, legendary sportscaster al michaels on everything from streaming to black friday football

>> reporter: these, for instance, are from nova scotia, and adam says they're typically more expensiver things like that. you want to get a beautiful big tree to fill up gh cathedral, $400. the prices vary. that's going to happen across the nation. you can still get the tree tops, and what i have read from a lot of the farmers in north carolina is if they had tree damage, they're trying to sheer off the top 4 feet of the tree. it was an 8 foot tree. they could have commanded top premium price for fraser firs, and instead they're having a little treetop tree that they might get 20 or 30 bucks for. >> contessa, stay warm. >> reporter: thank you. you too. >>> coming up, how president-elect trump's tariff plan will impact prices in the u.s. "squawk box" will be right back. drop everything and get some magic of your own during the xfinity black friday sale. xfinity internet customers, our best deals of the year are back! switch to xfinity mobile and get your choice of a free 5g phone, plus your next unlimited line free for a year. get amazing savings and connect to wifi speeds up to a gig o