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84 The Library contains a large number of records and ancient volumes relating to early Nova Scotia, and a few interesting pictures, among them a small but dashing portrait of "Royal Edward," Duke of Kent, and a painting of Sir Samuel Cunard.

In the yard south of the Province Building Howe made a famous speech and planted an oak on the three hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. A statue dedicated to him as an orator, a writer of prose and poetry, an editor and a patriot has been erected on this plot. Howe was born on the banks of the North West Arm. As a boy he set type for his father, whose paper, the Gazette, was published on the site of the present Post Office, opposite Parliament House. Later he owned and edited the Nova Scotian from whose pages the Clockmaker of Slickville made his bow to the world. When an old man, after an ingenious and forceful career, he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of the Province. He had occupied Government House but three weeks when he died. His grave is in Camp Hill Cemetery, beyond the Citadel, at the head of Sackville Street.

The Green Market, held every Saturday morning on the pavement about the Post Office, has largely lost its flavour of picturesque oddity. Indians and negroes, and Acadian and Anglo-Saxon farmers are the vendors. Their hand-plaited baskets hold ferns and vegetables, berries and fowl. But the bargaining is zestless, and dark-skinned