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# Kimball Taylor

Kimball Taylor is an American writer and speaker on ocean issues, the environment, and bringing attention to the complex realities of the US-Mexican border.

## Works

In his first book, Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures (2005, Dimdim Publishing) Taylor describes the lifes of surfers in several countries.
In 2013, Taylor and Dimdim published a follow-up book, Drive Fast and Take Chances, about surf obsession. It contains profiles of 15 people notably fixated with riding, hunting down, and discovering waves.
In 2008, while on assignment investigating thousands of tires that regularly wash down the Tijuana River during rains, Taylor stumbled upon a massive and mysterious pile of discarded bicycles. His unraveling the mystery of those thousands of bicycles became the genesis of his third book: The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire.

### Articles

Taylor has written over 27 articles for Surfer Magazine. His story about secret spots and surf imperialism in Mainland Mexico, The Search, was published in Volume 15 number 6 of The Surfers Journal. He has also had work published in The Atlantic magazine.

### Speaking

Kimball Taylor is sometimes asked to speak about writing and journalism. He also speaks on ocean issues from his years of writing for surfing journals, and following the publication of The Coyote's bicycle, Taylor is occasionally asked to speak on the issues of the Mexican border and the economics of illegal immigration, two issues that gained prominence when Donald Trump made them a policy of his presidency.
In 2016, he was asked to be part of a panel discussion of the US-Mexico border at the fourth annual San Antonio Book Festival.
In 2017, he was asked to be on a panel discussion of California at the 22nd annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

## Awards and honors

In 2017 Taylor was selected as a finalist in the 86th Annual California Book Awards by the Commonwealth Club of California.
# Dario Špikić

Dario Špikić (born 22 March 1999) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Super League Greece club Aris, on loan from Dinamo Zagreb.

## Career statistics

    As of match played 25 January 2025
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition :
| Club | Season | League | League | League | Cup | Cup | Europe | Europe | Other | Other | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Dinamo Zagreb II | 2016–17 | 2. HNL | 9 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 9 | 2 |
| Dinamo Zagreb II | 2017–18 | 2. HNL | 18 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 18 | 1 |
| Dinamo Zagreb II | Total | Total | 27 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 27 | 3 |
| Hajduk Split | 2018–19 | 1. HNL | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 |
| Hajduk Split II | 2018–19 | 2. HNL | 20 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 20 | 3 |
| Hajduk Split II | 2019–20 | 2. HNL | 10 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10 | 1 |
| Hajduk Split II | Total | Total | 30 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 30 | 4 |
| Gorica | 2019–20 | 1. HNL | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 15 | 0 |
| Gorica | 2020–21 | 1. HNL | 24 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 27 | 4 |
| Gorica | Total | Total | 29 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 42 | 4 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 2021–22 | 1. HNL | 23 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 2 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 2022–23 | 1. HNL | 34 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 53 | 8 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 2023–24 | 1. HNL | 28 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 6 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 2024–25 | 1. HNL | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | Total | Total | 99 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 35 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 146 | 18 |
| Career total | Career total | Career total | 186 | 24 | 13 | 2 | 35 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 238 | 29 |
* ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
* 1 2 Appearances in UEFA Champions League
* 1 2 Appearance in Croatian Football Super Cup
* ↑ Four appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, two appearances and one goal in UEFA Europa League, seven appearances in UEFA Conference League
# 1948 in Spain

Events in the year 1948 in Spain.

## Incumbents

* Caudillo: Francisco Franco

## Births

* January 2 – Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo, politician
* February 26 – Miguel Ángel Cascallana, handball player (d. 2015)
* March 5 – Paquirri, bullfighter (d. 1984)
* March 16 – Picanyol, comic artist.(d. 2021)
* March 29 – Daniel Astrain, footballer
* July 16 – Rita Barberá, politician, Mayor of Valencia (d. 2016)
* December 29 – Ventura Pérez Mariño, judge and politician (d. 2024)

## Deaths

* January 7 – Maria de Maeztu Whitney, Spanish educator, feminist (b. 1882)
* May 18 – Francisco Alonso, Spanish composer (b. 1887)
# Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations

The Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations is a diplomatic leader of the Arab Republic of Egypt at the UN, responsible for representing the country's interests in various UN bodies. Officially known as the UN ambassador, the role serves as the head of Egyptian deligation and the mission to the UN in New York, Geneva and Vienna. The position plays a primary role in diplomacy, handling international negotiations, and addressing global challenges like security, peace, and development. Egypt has historically held ambassador position within the UN due to its diplomatic role in regional and international politics.
The role involves engagement in several of UN activities, including deligations in the United Nations General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council. Egypt's representative also liaises with other UN agencies and engages in geopolitics, reflecting Egypt's priorities on topics such as peace and security, sustainable development, human rights, and climate change.

## History

Egypt has officially retained the permanent representative position at the United Nations since it came into existence on October 24, 1945. Over the years, the country has been actively participating in UN activities, especially in the areas of peacekeeping, decolonization, and disarmament. In addition to serving as permanent representative, Egyptian diplomats have also held the position of UN secretary general such as Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was elected in January 1992.

## List

* Osama Mahmoud Abdel Khalek Mahmoud (2021–present)
# Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit

The Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit (NTSRU) was an irregular warfare unit of the Australian Army during World War II, composed mainly of Aboriginal people from the Northern Territory. Formed in 1941, the unit patrolled the coast of Arnhem Land during 1942–43 searching for signs of Japanese landings and trained to fight as guerrillas using traditional weapons in the event of an invasion. In 1943, as the war moved northward from the Australian coast, the NTSRU was disbanded.

## History

Wartime exigencies broke down previous resistance to the enlistment of non-Europeans in the armed forces, with the threat posed to Northern Australia by the Japanese from late-1941 resulting in the formation of a number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander units such as the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion. In Northern Australia several irregular units were subsequently formed to utilise the local knowledge and bushcraft skills of the local Aboriginal people to provide surveillance of the more remote parts of the coastline, including the 2/1st North Australia Observer Unit based in Katherine, Northern Territory. Further north, east Arnhem Land was largely uninhabited except for a few Aboriginal Australians and unmapped prior to the war, but was considered a likely area for a possible Japanese landing.
Proposed in mid-1941, the NTSRU was subsequently formed between 12 February and 19 March 1942 under the command of Squadron Leader Donald Thomson, an anthropologist before the war with extensive experience working with the local Yolngu people in the 1930s, several of whom had previously been jailed for killing five Japanese pearlers and three Europeans during the Caledon Bay crisis in 1932–33. Thomson had been seconded to the Army from the Royal Australian Air Force in June to raise and command the unit. NTSRU personnel included 50 Aboriginal men (such as the Yolngu elder Wonggu and his sons), six Solomon Islanders, a Torres Strait Islander and several white non-commissioned officers, the unit patrolled the coast of Arnhem Land during 1942–43 searching for signs of Japanese landings and trained to fight as guerrillas using traditional weapons in the event of an invasion while reporting on enemy movements towards Darwin. Thomson did not arm the members of the NTSRU with rifles as he believed that this would expose them to identification and retaliation by Japanese forces in the event of an invasion.
Meanwhile, similar units were raised on Bathurst Island, Melville Island (including the Snake Bay Patrol), the Cox Peninsula and Groote Eylandt. In 1943, as the war moved northward from the Australian coast, the NTSRU was disbanded, and Thomson returned to the Air Force. He was later badly injured in action in Dutch New Guinea, and spent the rest of the war in hospital before being medically discharged. None of the men that served in these irregular units were formally enlisted or paid during the war; however, in 1992 their service was formally acknowledged by the Federal Government with the receipt of pay and service medals.
# 1996 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I – Pool A

Group A of the 1996 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Americas Zone Group I of the 1996 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage.
| | CHI | COL | MEX | PAR | RR W–L | Set W–L | Game W–L | Standings |
| Chile | | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 13–7 | 105–68 | 1 |
| Colombia | 1–2 | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 13–6 | 99–70 | 2 |
| Mexico | 1–2 | 0–3 | | 2–1 | 1–2 | 8–13 | 82–102 | 3 |
| Paraguay | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | | 0–3 | 7–15 | 74–157 | 4 |

## Chile vs. Mexico

| Chile 2 | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 24 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 24 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Mexico 1 |
| 1 2 3 1 Paula Cabezas Jessica Fernández 6 3 3 6 6 1   2 Bárbara Castro Karin Palme 4 6 4 6     3 Paula Cabezas / Bárbara Castro Jessica Fernández / Paola Palencia 6 1 6 3 ||||

## Colombia vs. Paraguay

| Colombia 2 | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 24 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 24 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Paraguay 1 |
| 1 2 3 1 Carmiña Giraldo Viviana Valdovinos 6 1 6 3     2 Fabiola Zuluaga Larissa Schaerer 6 3 6 2     3 Ximena Rodríguez / Fabiola Zuluaga Laura Bernal / Larissa Schaerer 6$^7$ 7$^9$ 6 2 4 6 ||||

## Chile vs. Paraguay

| Chile 2 | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 25 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 25 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Paraguay 1 |
| 1 2 3 1 Bárbara Castro Larissa Schaerer 6 3 3 6 4 6   2 Paula Cabezas Viviana Valdovinos 6 1 6 0     3 Paula Cabezas / Bárbara Castro Laura Bernal / Larissa Schaerer 6 1 6 3 ||||

## Colombia vs. Mexico

| Colombia 3 | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 25 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 25 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Mexico 0 |
| 1 2 3 1 Carmiña Giraldo Jessica Fernández 6 4 6 0     2 Fabiola Zuluaga Karin Palme 6 0 7 5     3 Ximena Rodríguez / Fabiola Zuluaga Jessica Fernández / Paola Palencia 6 2 6 2 ||||

## Chile vs. Colombia

| Chile 2 | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 26 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 26 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Colombia 1 |
| 1 2 3 1 Bárbara Castro Carmiña Giraldo 7 5 6 2     2 Paula Cabezas Catalina Castaño 6 2 6 0     3 María-Alejandra Quezada / Paulina Sepúlveda Ximena Rodríguez / Fabiola Zuluaga 2 6 6$^3$ 7$^7$ ||||

## Mexico vs. Paraguay

| Mexico 2 | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 26 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile 26 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Paraguay 1 |
| 1 2 3 1 Karin Palme Larissa Schaerer 5 7 6 4 6 1   2 Jessica Fernández Laura Bernal 6 0 6 1     3 Jessica Fernández / Karin Palme Laura Bernal / Ana Valeria Rolón 7 5 4 6 3 6 ||||
* Paraguay placed last in the pool, and thus was relegated to Group II in 1997, where they placed first in their pool of seven and as such advanced back to Group I for 1998.
# Milavče

Milavče is a municipality and village in Domažlice District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.

## Administrative division

Milavče consists of three municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):
* Milavče (418)
* Božkovy (23)
* Radonice (144)

## Geography

Milavče is located about 5 kilometres (3 mi) northeast of Domažlice and 41 km (25 mi) southwest of Plzeň. It lies in the Upper Palatine Forest Foothills. The highest point is at 500 m (1,600 ft) above sea level. The Zubřina Stream flows through the municipality.

## History

The first written mention of Milavče is from 1302. From 1357 to 1598, it was part of the Horšovský Týn estate and shared its owners. From 1598, it belonged to the Domažlice estate.
The village of Radonice was first mentioned in 1310, when it was owned by the Ostrov Monastery in Davle. Božkovy was first mentioned in 1472.
On 4 August 2021, two trains collided near the village.

## Demographics

| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1869 | 906 | — |
| 1880 | 947 | +4.5% |
| 1890 | 897 | −5.3% |
| 1900 | 954 | +6.4% |
| 1910 | 1,018 | +6.7% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1921 | 961 | −5.6% |
| 1930 | 942 | −2.0% |
| 1950 | 728 | −22.7% |
| 1961 | 725 | −0.4% |
| 1970 | 667 | −8.0% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1980 | 579 | −13.2% |
| 1991 | 567 | −2.1% |
| 2001 | 577 | +1.8% |
| 2011 | 576 | −0.2% |
| 2021 | 585 | +1.6% |
Source: Censuses :

## Transport

Milavče is located on the railway line Plzeň–Domažlice.

## Sights

The main landmark of Milavče is the Church of Saint Adalbert. It was built in the Baroque style in 1741–1748 on the site of an old chapel. The tower and sacristy were added in the 19th century.

## Notable people

* Josef Váchal (1884–1969), writer and painter
# Beek, Montferland

Beek is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Montferland, about 5 km southeast of Didam.

## History

It was first mentioned in 1206 as Beke, and means brook. The St Martinus Church dates from 1868. The tower was built in 1884 and has 15th century elements. The guild house St. Jan was constructed in 1897. In 1840, it was home to 573 people.

## Notable people

* Clemens Westerhof (born 1940), football manager

## Gallery

* Pub in Beek
* Guild hose in Beek
* Tree in front of church
* Demonstration against the nuclear reactor in Kalkar causes traffic jam at border crossing
# Andrew John Scott (botanist)

Andrew John Scott (born 1950, Torquay) is a British botanist.
He attended St Peter's School, Southbourne (1961-1969), where he was active in their fencing club. He went on to study Biology at York University (B.A., 1972) followed by an M.Sc. in Pure and Applied Plant Taxonomy at Reading University (1973), with a project on "Lotus section Pedrosia in the Canary Islands". In 1976 he was awarded a Ph.D. from Birmingham University for the thesis "The Systematics of the Chenopodiaceae" using Numerical taxonomy.
He worked (1976-1978) as a taxonomist at the Herbarium, Kew Gardens, working on Myrtaceae. Later he worked on the Flora of the Mascarenes project at Kew. Elected a member of the Linnean Society of London in 1976. He has published articles on the classification of the Chenopodiaceae and Myrtaceae.
He was awarded a Diploma in Management Studies (DMS) from Thames Valley College in 1990 and worked in Information technology at KPOS Computer Systems and Swan Retail.
Gossia scottiana N.Snow is named for him.

## Selected publications

1990. Myrtacées. In: Bosser J, Cadet T, Guého J, Marais W (Eds) Flore des Mascareignes: La Réunion, Maurice, Rodrigues 92. MSIRI, Port Louis, ORSTOM, Paris, Royal Botanical Gardens, London.OCLC 9896555
1990. Wild Flowers of Andorra. Quarterly Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society, Vol.58(4):374-379.
# 1953 in Spain

Events in the year 1953 in Spain.

## Incumbents

* Caudillo: Francisco Franco

## Births

* February 14 – Valero Rivera López, handball coach
* March 4 – Agustí Villaronga, film director, screenwriter and actor
* April 12 – Álex Angulo, actor (d. 2014)
* August 27 – Rosa Miguélez, politician
* Antonio Hernández, film director and screenwriter

## Deaths

* May 19 – Dámaso Berenguer, Spanish soldier and Prime Minister (b. 1873)
* September 24 – Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1878)
# 1996 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B

Group B of the 1996 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I of the 1996 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage and the bottom team being relegated down to Group II for 1996.
| | ITA | SWE | LAT | NOR | RR W–L | Set W–L | Game W–L | Standings |
| Italy | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 16–5 | 114–78 | 1 |
| Sweden | 0–3 | | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 9–7 | 79–70 | 2 |
| Latvia | 1–2 | 0–3 | | 3–0 | 1–2 | 9–6 | 77–63 | 3 |
| Norway | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | | 0–3 | 2–18 | 56–115 | 4 |

## Italy vs. Latvia

| Italy 2 | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 22 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 22 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Latvia 1 |
| 1 2 3 1 Adriana Serra Zanetti Anna Barinova 6 4 6 2     2 Rita Grande Larisa Neiland 6 2 7$^7$ 6$^1$     3 Laura Golarsa / Rita Grande Anna Barinova / Larisa Neiland 2 6 3 6 ||||

## Sweden vs. Norway

| Sweden 3 | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 22 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 22 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Norway 0 |
| 1 2 3 1 Åsa Carlsson Tina Samara 6 3 6 1     2 Anna-Karin Svensson Mette Sigmundstad 6 2 6 2     3 Maria Lindström / Anna-Karin Svensson Karoline Borgersen / Tina Samara 6 3 6 3 ||||

## Italy vs. Sweden

| Italy 2 | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 23 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 23 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Sweden 1 |
| 1 2 3 1 Adriana Serra Zanetti Åsa Carlsson 6 4 6 3     2 Rita Grande Anna-Karin Svensson 6 4 6$^1$ 7$^7$ 6 2   3 Nathalie Baudone / Laura Golarsa Anna-Karin Svensson / Maria Lindström 6 4 6 1 ||||

## Latvia vs. Norway

| Latvia 3 | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 23 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 23 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Norway 0 |
| 1 2 3 1 Anna Barinova Karoline Borgersen 6 4 7 5     2 Larisa Neiland Tina Samara 6 1 6 0     3 Anna Barinova / Larisa Neiland Karoline Borgersen / Tina Samara 6 2 6 3 ||||

## Italy vs. Norway

| Italy 3 | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 24 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 24 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Norway 0 |
| 1 2 3 1 Laura Golarsa Karoline Borgersen 6 2 3 6 6 2   2 Nathalie Baudone Mette Sigmundstad 6 2 6 2     3 Nathalie Baudone / Laura Golarsa Karoline Borgersen / Tina Samara 7$^7$ 6$^5$ 2 6 6 1 ||||

## Sweden vs. Latvia

| Sweden 3 | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 24 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 24 April 1996 Red clay (outdoors) | Latvia 0 |
| 1 2 3 1 Anna-Karin Svensson Larisa Neiland 4 1      retired 2 Åsa Carlsson Anna Barinova 1 6 7 5 6 2   3 Anna-Karin Svensson / Maria Lindström Anna Barinova / Larisa Neiland       w/o ||||
* Norway placed last in the pool, and thus was relegated to Group II in 1997, where they placed fourth in their pool of six.
# Cumberland Rooters

The Cumberland Rooters were a minor league baseball club that played for a short time in the Western Pennsylvania League in 1907. The team was established in Latrobe, Pennsylvania as a team listed only as Latrobe, prior to the start of the season. On May 28, 1907 the franchise was forfeited to the league after posting a 7-10 record. The league then awarded the franchise to Cumberland, Maryland, who fielded the Cumberland Rooters. The team posted a 5-20 record, before relocating to Piedmont, West Virginia on June 27, 1907, as a team listed only as Piedmont. The club posted a 4-6 record while playing in Piedmont. However the club relocated yet again on July 11, 1907 to Somerset, Pennsylvania to become the Somerset Infants. The Infants then posted an 0-5 record, before it disbanded later that July.
The franchise then became the Kittanning Infants and were based in Kittanning, Pennsylvania for just the last seven games in 1907. On August 1, 1907 club was formed as a member of the Western Pennsylvania League. During league play the Infants posted a 2-5 record. However the team disbanded on August 11, 1907.

## Year-by-year record

| Year | Record | Finish | Manager | Notes |
| 1907 Latrobe/Cumberland/ Piedmont/Somerset | 18-46 | NA | S. Whaley, William Morrow, Dillon, Curtis, Bill Malarkey | Disbanded in late July 1907 |
| 1907 Kittanning | 2-5 | NA | Bill Malarkey | Disbanded on August 11, 1907 |
# Roger Aitken

Roger Aitken (1748, Dumfries, Scotland - 21 November 1825, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a Scottish Anglican priest known for his service as a missionary at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1817-1825) for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. He was the rector at St. John's Anglican Church and was instrumental in gaining construction of the Rectory and in founding St. Peter's Anglican Church, New Dublin.
Ordained in Scotland by Bishop Robert Kilgour in 1777, Aitken served as the minister at St John's, Aberdeen, 1782-1814. He was assigned to the North American continent after the War of 1812, as garrison chaplain for two years (1814-1816) to the 1,000 British troops at Moose Island, Maine, then considered part of British territory in Lower Canada.
Aitken was reassigned to Halifax and was posted to Lunenburg on 22 June 1817. There he was active in supporting the local school and social services to families. He also worked to establish a local farmers’ market, similar to ones in Halifax and Liverpool. He was instrumental in establishing the St. Peter's Anglican Church, New Dublin (est. 1818), and presenting it with a historic silver chalice (c.1663) and paten (c.1766) from Aberdeen. Both of these pieces of communion silver are currently held in the King’s College Chapel, Halifax. (The chalice is reported to be the oldest Anglican chalice in Canada.)
When Aitken first arrived in Lunenburg, the village had no Anglican rectory. This situation persisted for most of the eight years he served there. The delays in erecting a residence for the missionary were related to deep divisions in the community. One historian reported that this period was “the most tumultuous eight years in the history of the congregation.”
At one point, some residents of Lunenburg wrote a 14-page petition to the SPG asking for Aitken to be recalled. Aitken responded with at 59-page document defending his service, which one historian said "is an exceptional and important document in terms of the religious history of the community”. During this period, Aitken was strongly opposed by prominent citizens John Creighton Jr. and Francis Joseph Rudolf. While waiting for the rectory to be completed, Aitken developed a farm on the other side of the LaHave River.
Aitken was eventually vindicated and a rectory was completed. This structure still stands at 58 Townsend Street. Shortly after the rectory was built, Aitken planned to go to England. En route to England, he died in Halifax where he was going to get a ship overseas. He was buried there in the Old Burying Ground.