LISTEN : How Nova Scotia’s privateers contributed to the War of 1812

By CityNews Halifax Staff

Posted Nov 30, 2018 07:34:00 PM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Journalist and professor at the University of King’s College, Dean Jobb, gives NEWS 95.7's The Rick Howe Show a history lesson about Nova Scotia’s privateers during the War of 1812.

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