Support our men in… Lucknow?

Arts activist and New Democrat Andrew Terris questions the province's decision to rename the Hantsport Connector after William Hall, VC, the first African Canadian, and the first Canadian sailor, to receive the Victoria Cross. The son of slaves who escaped the American south during the War of 1812, Hall earned the honor for his exceptional bravery during the Siege of Lucknow in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. On Monday, Terris wrote Premier Darrell Dexter: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was also known as India's First War of Independence, so in essence Nova Scotia’s social democrats are memorializing a black man who helped white...