When the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television show, Singalong Jubilee popularized the lyrics of the old song Farewell to Nova Scotia, they didn't think someday people might begin to take them literally.
"Farewell to Nova Scotia,That's the chorus of the haunting melody, recorded by Canadian singing angel Catherine McKinnon (Something Old, Something New, arc 256).
Some call Farewell to Nova Scotia "the Nova Scotia Song". Others declare the song was a sailor's lament put to music, originating with the acadians,
"It was derived from the Soldier's adieu, attributed to the Scottish weaver-poet Robert Tannahill (1774-1810)," contends the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.
as the leaves were falling this October, Nova Scotia became "the Maharishi Island of World Peace", at a site tourists the world over flock to see, the Canso Causeway.
The Global Parliament of World Peace raised its flag at the scene of Skye Lodge, in the postcard perfect town of Port Hastings, Cape Breton, a 2-1/2 hour drive from Halifax, the Nova Scotian capital and a world renowned port.
Nova Scotians, such as "bluenoser" Yours Truly call N.S. "down home" and "God's country", preferring those terms of endearment to its Latin name, "New Scotland".
Maharishi Maresh Yogi and company call it "the land of the rising sun for North america".
Why would Maharishi followers want to practice their quirky hop-jump flying yogic and transcendental meditation in pastoral, fisherperson-broke Nova Scotia?
It's in the same question genre of why the United States of america would allow the world's largest bureaucracy tenure on prime real estate in Manhattan.
But the followers of the Maharishi--who was once spiritual adviser to the Beatles--will be doing a lot more than hop-skip flying over farmer's fields in Nova Scotia.
They will, among other things, be training politicians from all over the world.
"The Global Country of World Peace was founded to provide a global home for peace-loving citizens of more than 100 nations," says a media release explaining why they landed on the Canadian coast. "The purpose of the Global Parliament of World Peace is to present the Constitution of the Universe to the world and provide training programs for the politicians and administrators of every country in this absolute system of administration, so that suffering and problems belong to no one and peace, harmony, happiness and fulfillment dominate the daily life of the people everywhere."
Don't anybody tell Senator Ted Kennedy that it sounds just like Camelot to me.
Just to think as radio meister Rush Limbaugh was contemplating that the United Nations even had its own school under the chairmanship of Kyoto architect Maurice Strong, the University of World Peace was beginning to take root in Nova Scotia, eons away from its one-time headquarters in eternally sunny Costa Rica,
Meanwhile, more than a sailor's lament is putting Nova
Scotia on the map and the words Farewell to Nova Scotia are taking on an entire new meaning.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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