Nova Scotia's Electronic Attic

Specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia

http://alts.net/ns1625/index.html
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Canning, Nova Scotia, Canada


This website has 203 different pages.





Photographs of the Kentville Roundhouse
A major heritage building, the last remaining railway roundhouse in Nova Scotia, demolished by the Town of Kentville on 9 July 2007.
    http://ns1763.ca/rail/kenround.html

Nova Scotia Schools on the Internet
    http://ns1763.ca/wwwschools/nschools.html

Nova Scotia Quotations
    http://alts.net/ns1625/quotes.html

Little-Known Portions of Nova Scotia History
    http://alts.net/ns1625/histindx.html

Nova Scotia Stuff Another website specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia
    http://ns1763.ca/index.html

Military Memorials in Nova Scotia
    http://ns1763.ca/remem/military-memorials.html

Timeline of the First Thirty Years of Radio
    http://ns1763.ca/radio30/radio-first-30yrs.html

Marconi Wireless Telegraph in Nova Scotia
    http://ns1763.ca/radio30/marconi-novascotia.html

Marconi's Three Transatlantic Radio Stations in Cape Breton
    http://ns1763.ca/marconi100/marconi1.html

Cape Breton Marconi Centennial
contemporary clippings

Trans-Atlantic Wireless Today
Halifax Morning Chronicle, 17 Oct 1907
    http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-chronicle19071017.html


Wireless Message Across the Atlantic
Halifax Morning Chronicle, 18 Oct 1907
    http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-chronicle19071018.html


Wireless from King Edward
Halifax Morning Chronicle, 19 Oct 1907
    http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-chronicle19071019.html


Congratulations for Marconi
Halifax Morning Chronicle, 21 Oct 1907
    http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-chronicle19071021.html


Marconi's Achievement
Halifax Morning Chronicle, 21 Oct 1907
    http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-chronicle19071021m.html


Wireless Station in Constant Operation
Halifax Morning Chronicle, 24 Oct 1907
    http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-chronicle19071024.html


Second Test of the Marconi Over-Ocean Wireless System...
Sydney Daily Post, 24 Oct 1907
    http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-sydpost19071024.html


Cape Breton Wireless Heritage Society
    http://cbwireless.ednet.ns.ca/index.html

Cape Breton Marconi Centennial
    http://cbwireless.ednet.ns.ca/cbwirelessp4.html

The 1901 Transatlantic Radio Experiment Marconi in Newfoundland
    http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/henry.bradford/marconi-newf.html

Ralph Hennigar
    http://www.whymahonebay.com/index.html

For a Canadian Wikipedia
    http://participanthistorian.blogspot.com/2006/11/for-canadian-wikipedia.html

Oldest Newspaper in Canada
    http://www.alts.net/ns1625/news01.html


Timeline of the Seven Years War 1754-1763
 The period 2004-2013 is the 250th anniversary of the 
Seven Years War, a.k.a. the French and Indian War.
Includes important events in Nova Scotia.

The 1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express
    http://ns1763.ca/ponyexpress/ponyexdx.html
1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express Monument Victoria Beach
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/ponyexmon.html

Photographs of War Memorials, Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
    http://ns1763.ca/remem/plaques.html
Robert Borden Monument The monument in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, with a plaque commemorating Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister of Canada 1911-1920
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/borden_rl.html
Abraham Gesner Monument Chipman Corner
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/gesnermem.html
Memorial: Commonwealth Air Training Program, 1939-1945 Middleton
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/bcatpww2.html
Deadman's Island Northwest Arm, Halifax
    http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/deadmansnd.html


Advertisement: Negro Man, for Nova Scotia
Ad in New York newspaper, July 1783
For sale: Negro Man, for Nova Scotia

Enlarged view



Advertisement: Land for Sale in Nova Scotia
Ad in New York newspaper, July 1783
Land for Sale in Nova Scotia

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1 February 1999
Ode to the Code As the Morse Code is officially retired, a former radio operator recalls its glory days as the communications medium of the world's oceans...
    http://alts.net/ns1625/sgr-cbh.html
Farewell to Morse Code Canadian marine radio operators mourned the official phasing out of Morse code as the worldwide distress call of the high seas...
    http://alts.net/ns1625/morse01.html

Fieldwood Heritage Society Canning
    http://fieldwoodhs.ednet.ns.ca/index.html

Friends of Crescent Beach, Green Bay and Area Society
    http://www.crescentbeach.ca/

Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society
    http://novascotiarailwayheritage.com/

Train to New Minas 15 June 2007
    http://ns1763.ca/rail/whr-minas-june15.html

Westray Mine Disaster, 9 May 1992
    http://alts.net/ns1625/wraymenu.html

1849: Communications between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick A hundred clippings, originally published in 1849, describing the movement of information between these two then-independent colonies.
    http://alts.net/ns1625/nb1849.html

Nova Scotia's Telegraphs, Landlines And Cables by D.G. Whidden, 1938
    http://ns1763.ca/tele/whidden2.html

History of Telephone Companies in Nova Scotia
In December 1924, there were 279 telephone utility companies operating telephone systems in various parts of Nova Scotia, according to the 1924 Annual Report of the Nova Scotia Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities.

History of Electric Companies in Nova Scotia
How many separate public utility companies have operated electricity generating and/or distribution systems in Nova Scotia? 10? 20? 30? Here's a list, from the Acadia Electric Light Co. Ltd. to the Zwicker Electric Power Co. Ltd.

History of Railway Companies in Nova Scotia
This is a history of all railway companies in Nova Scotia. How many have there been? Twenty? Forty? Sixty? Here's a list, from the Amherst Street Railway, to the Great American & European Short Line Railway, to the Yarmouth & Digby Electric Railway.

History of Automobiles in Nova Scotia
A history, mostly excerpts from contemporary sources, of the early days of automobiles in Nova Scotia: The first few autos, speed limits, laws relating to autos, highway conditions, the ways people reacted to the new machines, etc.



History of Nova Scotia
with special attention given to Communications and Transportation
  1. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Before 31 December 1699
  2. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1700 to Dec 1769
  3. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1770 to Dec 1775
  4. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1776 Jan to Dec
  5. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1777 to Dec 1779
  6. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1780 to Dec 1819
  7. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1820 to Dec 1839
  8. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1840 to Dec 1849
  9. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1850 to Dec 1859
  10. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1860 to Dec 1869
  11. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1870 to Dec 1879
  12. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1880 to Dec 1889
  13. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1890 to Dec 1893
  14. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1894 to Dec 1899
  15. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1900 to Dec 1904
  16. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1905 to Dec 1909
  17. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1910 to Dec 1919
  18. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1920 to Dec 1939
  19. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1940 to Dec 1949
  20. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1950 to Dec 1959
  21. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1960 to Dec 1969
  22. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1970 to Dec 1979
  23. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1980 to Dec 1989
  24. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1990 to Dec 1993
  25. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1994 Jan to Dec
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  27. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1996 Jan to Dec
  28. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 January - June
  29. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 July - September
  30. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 October - November
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  32. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 January
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  40. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 September - October
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  42. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 January - March
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  48. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 December 1-15
  49. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 December 16-31
  50. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 January 1-15
  51. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 January 16-31
  52. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 February 1-15
  53. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 February 16-28
  54. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 March 1-19
  55. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 March 20-31
  56. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 April 1-14
  57. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 April 15-30
  58. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 May 1-9
  59. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 May 10-31
  60. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 June 1-15
  61. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 June 16-30
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  63. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 July 19-31
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  66. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 September 1-12
  67. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 September 13-30
  68. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 October 1-21
  69. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 October 22-31
  70. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 November 1-12
  71. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 November 13-19
  72. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 November 20-30
  73. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 December 1-19
  74. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 December 20-31
  75. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 January 1-21
  76. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 January 22-31
  77. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 February
  78. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 March
  79. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 April - December
  80. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2002 January - 2003 December
  81. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2004 January - 2005 December
  82. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2006 January onward

Top Three hits, Google search on Nova Scotia history, 31 May 2007
Top Four hits, Google search on Nova Scotia history 31 May 2007.
The first two items point to this website, www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/ (same as alts.net/ns1625/).

View the complete Top Twenty list of hits for this search for Nova Scotia history


Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1805
Richard John Uniacke
title page  
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A Fierce War: The Electric Telegraph Lines Between New York and Halifax
New York, January 24, 1850: — ...That the public may not be misled in this matter, the Associated Press deem it proper to make the following statement of facts ... About January 1849, the New York newspapers Journal of Commerce, Courier and Enquirer, Herald, Sun, Tribune, and Express, through their Committee, in an interview with Mr. L.R. Darrow, the Superintendent of the new Saint John Electric Telegraph Line, then nearly finished, arranged to run an express, on the arrival of each Cunard Royal Mail steamer at Halifax, from that point to Saint John, New Brunswick, the eastern terminus of the Telegraph at that time, on condition of having the privilege of transmitting a despatch of three thousand words to Boston and New York, leaving copies if wanted, at the intermediate towns and cities. The press were granted the exclusive use of the wires from the moment their despatch was offered until it was finished. This was deemed necessary to warrant the vast outlay anticipated, and as a protection to the public. Other parties, however, were not shut out from the use of the wires. If they could anticipate our agent at the telegraph office, their messages were sent through to their destination ... The Associated Press, previous to the new enterprise, had employed the express steamer Buena Vista to run from Halifax to Boston; and at the time of effecting the arrangement with Mr. Darrow, five of the associated newspapers had the steamer Newsboy employed in cruising off Sandy Hook, to meet with the steamships coming from Europe. The news brought by the Buena Vista cost nearly $1,000 each time it was transmitted to New York, and the expenses of the Newsboy were at the rate of over $20,000 per annum, which were cheerfully paid by the Courier and Enquirer, Herald, Journal of Commerce, Sun, and Express, the owners of the steamer at that time. After the overland express from Halifax to Saint John was established, the Newsboy was withdrawn, but the cost of getting the European news increased. An examination of the bills of the last year exhibited the enormous expenditure, in that short space of time of $29,700, most of which went into the pockets of the telegraph companies...
(Signed)
      Gerard Hallock, New York Journal of Commerce
      Horace Greeley & Thomas McElrath, New York Tribune
      George H. Andrews, New York Courier & Enquirer
      Moses S. Beach and Alfred E. Beach, New York Sun
      James Brooks & Erastus Brooks, New York Express
      James Gordon Bennett, New York Herald
      New York, January 24, 1850

County maps Individual maps for each of Nova Scotia's counties
    http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/muns/info/mapping/counties.stm

Where is Canning?
    Good map of Kings County showing Canning, Wolfville, Kentville...

Google's Directory of Nova Scotia County websites
    http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/
        Canada/Nova_Scotia/Counties/

Orders in Council Nova Scotia, December 1955

Map of Nova Scotia the best on-line map of Nova Scotia that I know of

Historical Errors in The Dominion Institute's Great Questions series
    http://ns1763.ca/dominion.html

Pictures of Technology-Related Subjects

Spring Equinox dates and times of day, for a thousand years
    http://ns1763.ca/equinox/eqindex.html

EFC Supporter
Electronic
Frontier
Canada 		EFC Blue Ribbon - Free Speech Online
Blue
Ribbon
Campaign


Search Engines & Indexes, etc.



Internet Traffic Report

search the Net maze Search Engine Watch a great place to keep an eye on what's happening in this important part of the Web...

Dead Search Engines by Greg R. Notess

search the Net maze Google Search Engine

search the Net maze Google Image Search

search the Net maze Google Maps

search the Net maze Google Scholar


search the Net maze BookFinder By far the best way I've found to find secondhand books online. A test run to find any book by L.T.C. Rolt (the great historian of technology) turned up at least five times as many books as I had ever before been able to locate.



The Wayback Machine has archived copies of this webpage:
Nova Scotia's Electronic Attic

The Wayback Machine has copies of this webpage from the early days.


Archived: 1998 December 5
http://web.archive.org/web/19981205020405/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 1998 December 6
http://web.archive.org/web/19981206213947/www.alts.net/ns1625/

Archived: 1999 January 28
http://web.archive.org/web/19990128034319/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/

Archived: 1999 April 20
http://web.archive.org/web/19990420013638/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 1999 October 11
http://web.archive.org/web/19991011052609/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/

Archived: 1999 November 22
http://web.archive.org/web/19991122081050/http://alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 1999 December 18
http://web.archive.org/web/19991218223527/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2000 February 29
http://web.archive.org/web/20000229161207/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2000 March 7
http://web.archive.org/web/20000307041811/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2000 May 19
http://web.archive.org/web/20000519233457/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2000 June 12
http://web.archive.org/web/20000612191230/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2000 July 7
http://web.archive.org/web/20000707000908/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2000 October 5
http://web.archive.org/web/20001006065510/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2000 December 6
http://web.archive.org/web/20001206012500/http://alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2001 April 6
http://web.archive.org/web/20010406212533/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2001 June 2
http://web.archive.org/web/20010602021801/http://alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2001 October 19
http://web.archive.org/web/20011019183517/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived: 2002 January 24
http://web.archive.org/web/20020124021417/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html

Archived:2002 June 11
http://web.archive.org/web/20020611065348/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html


These links were accessed and found to be valid on 03 June 2007.

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This is the date and time the site was archived.


The Wayback Machine has archived copies of this webpage:
Selected Nova Scotian Home Pages
(This webpage no longer operates)

Archived: 1999 February 2
http://web.archive.org/web/19990202154313/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/nselectd.html

Archived: 1999 October 23
http://web.archive.org/web/19991023051859/http://alts.net/ns1625/nselectd.html

Archived: 2000 May 26
http://web.archive.org/web/20000526060955/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/nselectd.html

Archived: 2000 June 19
http://web.archive.org/web/20000619020720/http://alts.net/ns1625/nselectd.html


These links were accessed and found to be valid on 03 June 2007.






Ivan Smith 902-582-3783
9847 Main Street, Canning, Nova Scotia B0P 1H0, Canada

On 17 September 2003, my e-mail addresses <rustfrog@auracom.com> and <rustfrog@han.auracom.com> were shut down permanently, because of the junk e-mail problem.

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