Nova Scotia

In late July 1990, in the waters off Nova Scotia and at a tiny Cape Breton wharf, a plot to unload around two-dozen tonnes of hash was foiled by RCMP, the coast guard and the military. A judge later called the plan "one of the largest conspiracies ever to import drugs through the Nova Scotia coast."

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The Scotian Maid, shown in the foreground, carried around $500 million in hash that was offloaded to another small fishing vessel, but was intercepted at sea by authorities in July 1990. CCGS Mary Hichens is shown in the background.…