Nova Scotia's Electric Attic

Specializing in Nova Scotia history

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Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

Nova Scotia Quotations
http://ns1758.ca/quote/quotes.html

Nova Scotia History - Chapter One
http://newscotland1398.ca/hist/nshistory01.html

Nova Scotia in the War of 1812
http://ns1758.ca/1812war/war1812-atlantic.html#war1812-novascot

Nova Scotia Historical Biographies
http://newscotland1398.ca/hist/nshistory00.html#ns-historical-biog

History of Electric Companies in Nova Scotia
How many separate public utility companies have operated electricity generating and/or distribution systems in Nova Scotia? 100? 200? Here's a list, from the Acadia Electric Light Co. Ltd. to the Zwicker Electric Power Co. Ltd.
http://ns1758.ca/electric/electric.html

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.
http://ns1758.ca/auto/automobiles.html

History of Railway Companies in Nova Scotia
This is a history of all railway companies in Nova Scotia. How many have there been? 20? 50? 100? Here's a list, from the Amherst Street Railway, to the Great American & European Short Line Railway, to the Yarmouth & Digby Electric Railway.
http://ns1758.ca/rail/railways.html

Photographs of the Moose River railway bridge
       http://newscot1398.net/rail/dar-bridge-mooseriv.html
Photographs of the Bear River railway bridge
       http://ns1758.ca/rail/dar-bridge-bearriv.html
Photographs of the Sissiboo River railway bridge
       http://ns1758.ca/rail/dar-bridge-sissiboo.html

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's Electric Scrapbook another website specializing in Nova Scotia history
http://ns1763.ca/index.html

Nova Scotia's Electric Gleaner and another
http://ns1758.ca/index.html

Planter 2010 Celebration and another
http://planter2010.ca/index.html

Nova Scotia's Electric Garrett and another
http://marconi100.ca/index.html

Nova Scotia's Electric Flotsam and another
http://newscotland1398.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
1907 - 2007
October 1907: contemporary clippings

Interior Description...Operator's Room...Marconi Wireless
Sydney Daily Post, 16 Oct 1907
http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-sydpost19071016.html

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

Marconi...Sent 10,000 Across the Atlantic
Halifax Herald 18 Oct 1907
http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-herald19071018.html

Wireless Joins Two Worlds
New York The New York Times, 18 Oct 1907
http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-nytimes19071018.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

Post Reporter Sent Message to Clifden...Short Answer
Sydney Daily Post, 23 Oct 1907
http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-sydpost19071023.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

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

Oldest Newspaper in Canada
http://newscotland1398.ca/99/news01.html

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

Sir William Alexander monument Victoria Park, Halifax
http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/alexwill.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

Enlarged view

Ode to the Code 1 February 1999
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://ns1763.ca/tele/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://ns1763.ca/tele/morse01.html

Jeff Cantwell Wolfville

Canning, Nova Scotia
http://canningnovascotia.ca/index.html

Canning Water Rate Increase Application
http://newscotland1398.ca/cwu/cannwater.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 Coal Mine Disaster
http://www.newscotland1398.ca/westray/wraymenu.html

Index to the Westray Mine Public Inquiry Transcript
http://www.newscotland1398.ca/westray/wrpindex.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://ns1763.ca/tele/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 Nova Scotia
with special attention given to Communications and Transportation

Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1805
Richard John Uniacke
title page
page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4
page 5 page 6 page 7 page 8

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

Energy Consumption Computer in Sleep Mode vs. SUV
http://ns1758.ca/energy/energy20080307.html

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

Anti-Confederation Petition from Nova Scotia, 16 June 1868 House of Commons, London

Anti-Confederation Petition from Nova Scotia, 6 July 1868 House of Lords, London

Controversy: Renaming Cornwallis Junior High

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

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

Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman
http://ns1758.ca/parkman/14517_montcalm_and_wolfe.html

Connecting Canadians A Study of the CAP Community Access Program
http://ns1758.ca/connect-canadians.html

Slave auction advertisement, Nova Scotia 3 Nov. 1760

Runaway Slave advertisement, Nova Scotia 1 Sep. 1772

The John Gorham Controversy, 1998

Planters 2010 � 250th Anniversary in Nova Scotia

Planter 2010 Celebration in Nova Scotia

The Wayback Machine has archived copies of this webpage:
Nova Scotia's Electronic Attic
(the original version of this Electric Attic)
(First uploaded to the WWW: 1996 August 04)

Archived: 1998 December 05
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Ivan Smith 902-542-1961
9 Balcom Drive, apt. 15
Wolfville, Nova Scotia B4P 2N8, Canada

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Latest update: 2012 October 18

Nova Scotia's Electric Attic

Specializing in Nova Scotia history

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