(06-09-2020, 08:46 PM)robkelk Wrote: In an effort to make All The Tropes a little less USA-centric than TV Tropes is (and thus differentiate the two sites somewhat more), I'm trying to get more Canadian content onto the wiki. That includes making pages for Canadian cities similar to the pages that the wiki has for American cities (and for Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver).
And to do that, I need lists of famous creators from each city and fictional works set in each city ... which I can crib from Wikipedia.
But Wikipedia doesn't have a list of fictional works set in Halifax. (It does have a list of famous Haligonians.)
So, what's set in Halifax? (does a web search) Theodore Tugboat, a bunch of non-fiction books set against the backdrop of the Halifax Explosion, and ... according to DuckDuckGo, nothing else. (wracks own brain) Trailer Park Boys is set in Dartmouth, just across the Narrows. The Surgeon's Mate, the seventh of the "Aubrey-Maturin" books, starts in Halifax.
What else? If anybody knows, so would some of the folks here, right?
I have somewhere between 1.5 and 2 examples:
1) "Barrett's Privateers" by the late great Stan Rogers. The last survivor off the Antelope washes eventually up on a Halifax pier, wishing he were in Sherbrooke.
other) the old sea-type song "Poor Miss Bailey" (aka "Miss Bailey's Ghost"); the wicked Captain Smith, who seduces and deserts the titular Miss Bailey, driving her to suicide and to haunt him, is identified in the first line as "a captain bold from Halifax".
Hope this helps. If not, hope you are at least confused on a higher level and about more important things, like what her horse has to do with that year in college.