06 May 2008

Pugwash

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not much doing in Pugwash -- >

We stopped here because of the name. Turns out the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, came here to visit. Aparently, it was pretty famous in its day, gettting some bigwig scientists together for some peace conferences, courtesy of steel magnate Cyrus Eaton, a big opponent of the Vietnam war, who was born here. Captain Pugwash was named after this town. The name is Mi'kmaq for "deep water".

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