Talk:Antigonish, Nova Scotia

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Removed items[edit]

I removed a few items that were recently added to the article. First of all the article is focused on the town or the area known as Antigonish, Nova Scotia. St. Andrews Consolidated School is located in St. Andrews, Nova Scotia. This school would belongi updated the economy and annex/amal issue--BoyoJonesJr 23:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Did 70.68.172.103 remove The Trews just to get back at me??--BoyoJonesJr 18:13, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand by BoyoJones removed the print source "Historic Antigonish" under the History section.

I removed the note for two main reasons, 1. I don't think that there is any information in the history section that is from that particular book, and 2. if that book is indeed not a source, than the note sounds like more of an advertisment and that isn't what wikipedia is for. If the book is a source than wikipedia has a proper layout for footnotes. The external link that was added for that book is also inappriopriate for Wikipedia as it just links to a book selling website. Thanks for taking an interest in this article and I'd appriciate anything you can add to it.--BoyoJonesJr 00:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation[edit]

I added an IPA pronounciation of Antigonish's name. I'm a native to this town and nearly all visitors couldn't pronounce it (not surprising of course), so I think having the town's pronounciation is important. Now, I'm still not a pro with IPA, so feel free to correct what I wrote. Basically, "Antigonish" is four syllables: the two in "Anti" (which is pronounced exactly like ante) and the two in "gonish" ("go" is pronounced exactly like [ I added an IPA pronounciation of Antigonish's name. I'm a native to this town and nearly all visitors couldn't pronounce it (not surprising of course), so I think having the town's pronounciation is important. Now, I'm still not a pro with IPA, so feel free to correct what I wrote. Basically, "Antigonish" is three syllables: "Anti" which is prounces like go, and "nish" is pronounced like the "nic" in technician). In the "gonish" part the emphasis is on "nish". --Jon Sangster 12:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Does the last syllable have primary stress, then? The current pattern doesn't occur in English words, so I'll change it to "antigoNISH". kwami 19:31, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Antigonish: pronounce an-eh-gah-nish (never pronounce the "t")

I was born and raised in this town, and you certainly do pronounce the "t" --Jon Sangster (talk) 18:54, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jeff Smith: "Originally from New Glasgow" - WTF?

Where does the stress go? You're supposed to have a little apostrophelike mark before the stressed syllable. And what the hell is /ɪː/? We don't have that in English. Kelisi (talk) 03:03, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of notable people[edit]

This list seems pretty subjective and trivial to me; I think it ought to be removed. Any thoughts? Strobilus (talk) 17:45, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trivial indeed... it doesn't even mention me! 13:45, 23 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.109.32.29 (talk)

Name Origin[edit]

Hi, I'm not Canadian, I just have some issue with the name origin. The article states "The name Antigonish is of Mi'kmaq origin". I am however Irish, and I also noticed that a sign in the town features the phrase "Cead Mile Fáilte", which is Irish/Scots Gaelic for "One Hundred Thousand Welcomes".

I just find it incredibly hard to believe that a name as Irish sounding as Antigonish is of Mi'kmaq origin considering the town's links with Ireland and Scotland in particular, and that if 11,000 people still speak Mi'kmaq then why does no one know what Antigonish means?Milzo1986 (talk) 22:09, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Not moved Mike Cline (talk) 15:04, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]


Antigonish, Nova Scotia → Antigonish – Antigonish redirects here, all entries listed at Antigonish (disambiguation) are secondary usage to the town. The county is already located at Antigonish County, which is its proper location. Moving the article to Antigonish is in line with WP:CANSTYLE naming conventions. --kelapstick(bainuu) 22:35, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • How do you figure that a town of 4,000 souls is the primary topic ("more likely than all the other topics combined to be the topic sought") vis-à-vis the widely known poem of the same name? —  AjaxSmack  00:06, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • I consider it primary over the the poem as the poem is "Inspired by reports of a ghost of a man roaming the stairs of a haunted house in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada". The county, electoral districts, and the like are so named because of the town's name. --kelapstick(bainuu) 22:47, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      • True, but being the "original" use of the name doesn't make it primary. Otherwise, we wouldn't have Melbourne, Boston, &c. Primary is "more likely than all the other topics combined to be the topic sought" —  AjaxSmack  03:38, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Weather Averages[edit]

Looking at the reader feedback, and my personal interest, I've noticed that this page lacks the Weather Averages that most Canadian towns, cities have. I have crawled around the web for some data, but to no avail. Does anyone out there have a link to this data? If so, they can post it here, and I can compile it into the table. Thanks! --Kylestewart98 (talk) 01:08, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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