Halifax Chronicle-Herald, page F4, 24 April 2008
The full, official, legal name of each company is given, except perhaps in a few cases where the legal name is not yet clear. This list is known to be incomplete (I'm working on it).
Unless otherwise stated, "Act" means an Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature.
Where they appear below
"NSL" refers to the Nova Scotia Legislature in Halifax,
"DOM" refers to the Dominion Government in Ottawa (since 1867)
"ULC" refers to the Government of the Province of Canada
(1841–1867)
• Devco Railway was wholly owned by the Cape Breton Development Corporation, a crown corporation, and was operated as an unincorporated department within that corporation.
— Canadian Transportation Agency Decision No. 571-R-1997
• On 18 December 2001, 510845 N.B. Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emera Inc., Nova Scotia's largest electric utility company, acquired surface assets (railway track, rights-of-way, locomotives and other rolling stock, etc.) from the Cape Breton Development Corporation. The company will use the railway, managed under contract by SCFQ, to transport large quantities of coal to NS Power generating stations.
— Canadian Transportation Agency
Decision No. 192-R-2002, 19 April 2002
— Canadian Transportation Agency
Decision No. 341-R-2002, 28 June 2002
• This property included the rail operation between the international pier on the waterfront in Sydney and the Lingan power generating plant, the rail lines through the coal storage facility at Victoria Junction, including the railway maintenance centre, and a portion of the Glace Bay rail line between the railway maintenance centre and the end of the Old Tank siding, Cape Breton Island.
The sale of assets to 510845 N.B. Inc. did not include the trackage from Victoria Junction to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. This trackage has been functionally abandoned since the early 1990s when the sole customer ceased shipping coal by rail. Most of the road crossings and trestles have been removed at the request of local Municipalities.
— Canadian Transportation Agency Decision No. 341-R-2002
• On 1 January 2003, the operation of this railway was transferred from 510845 N.B. Inc. to Sydney Coal Railway Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quebec Railway Corporation Inc. (Societe des Chemins de Fer du Quebec).
— CTA Decisions No. 657-R-2002 and 683-R-2002
In 2005, it appears that ownership of this railway property lies with 510845 N.B. Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emera Inc., and that the responsibility for the operation of this railway lies with Sydney Coal Railway Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Societe des Chemins de Fer du Quebec (Quebec Railway Corporation).
3986250 Canada Inc. and Sydney Coal Railway Inc. were originally set up as separate corporations, both wholly-owned subsidiaries of Quebec Railway Corporation Inc. (Societe des Chemins de Fer du Quebec). These two separate corporations were amalgamated in April 2004, and thereafter were known as Sydney Coal Railway Inc.
— Canadian Transportation Agency
Decision No. 233-R-2004, 6 May 2004
• On 1 January 2003, responsibility for the operation of this railway was transferred from 510845 N.B. Inc. to Sydney Coal Railway Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quebec Railway Corporation Inc. (Societe des Chemins de Fer du Quebec).
— Canadian Transportation Agency Decision No. 657-R-2002
• ...the CTA notes that 3986250 Canada Inc. proposes to acquire and/or operate, through sale, lease or right of access, the railway which was formally owned and/or operated by 510845 N.B. Inc... The CTA also notes that 3986250 Canada Inc. proposes to commence the operation of its railway on January 1, 2003...
— Canadian Transportation Agency Decision No. 683-R-2002
NSL 1865 chapter 64 — Act to incorporate the Acadia Coal Co.
NSL 1867 chapter 57 —
NSL 1869 chapter 62 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Coal & Iron Co. Ltd.
NSL 1872 chapter 73 — Act to incorporate the Vale Coal, Iron, & Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
NSL 1874 chapter 70 —
NSL 1874 chapter 74 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Co. Ltd.
NSL 1875 chapter 72 —
NSL 1883 chapter 64 —
NSL 1886 chapter 126 —
NSL 1886 chapter 161 —
NSL 1886 chapter 162 — Act to carry into effect amalgamation of Acadia Coal Co. with Halifax Co. Ltd. and Vale Coal, Iron & Manufacturing Co.
NSL 1887 chapter 115 — Act to add "Limited" to name, etc.
NSL 1898 chapter 165 —
NSL 1900 chapter 180 —
NSL 1904 chapter 147 —
NSL 1906 chapter 165 —
NSL 1907 chapter 141 —
NSL 1908 chapter 140 —
NSL 1910 chapter 113 —
NSL 1938 chapter 76 — Amendment
NSL 1904 chapter 144 — Act to incorporate the Ainslie Mining & Railway Co. Ltd.
The Albion Mines Railway — between Albion Coal Mines (now named Stellarton) and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia — was officially opened on 19 September 1839. Operations had started in December, 1838, using the Timothy Hackwork steam locomotives Samson, Hercules and John Buddle imported from England.
Chronology of Important Dates in Canadian Railway History, by Colin Churcher and Rick Roberts
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/List001/list23.htm
Reference: Federal Government Order in Council OIC 1883-1262, page 1 approved 30 May 1883
See: Spring Hill & Parrsboro Coal & Railway Co. Ltd.NSL 1898 chapter 127 — Act to incorporate the Amherst & Eastern Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1889 chapter 126 — Act to incorporate the Amherst Street Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1890 chapter 157 — Amendment
1891: — "It is proposed to open shortly an electric railway" between downtown Amherst and Fort Lawrence, near the New Brunswick border. This electric railway is planned in association with the new Chignecto Ship Railway now being built across the isthmus. The Tidnish terminus of the Ship Railway is reached by stagecoach from Amherst.
Excerpted from page 191 of "The Canadian Guide Book: The Tourist's and Sportsman's Guide to Eastern Canada and Newfoundland..." by Charles G.D. Roberts, published in 1891 by D. Appleton, New York.
Source: Early Canadiana Online http://www.canadiana.org/
page 191 http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=73f2010914&display=56228+0263
NSL 1888 chapter 82 — Act to incorporate the Annapolis & Atlantic Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1890 chapter 76 — Amendment
NSL 1891 chapter 128 — Amendment
NSL 1892 chapter 69 — Amendment, providing for extension of line to Halifax or Dartmouth
NSL 1893 chapter 65 — Act to change name to Nova Scotia Southern Railway Co. Ltd.
This company operated a pole railway about three miles [5km] long at Clementsport, Annapolis County. The only mention of this railway (that I know of) is a few words — "The iron mine was situated three miles south of this location and ore transported in trucks drawn by horses on a railway with rails of maple wood." — on a bronze plaque at Clementsport.
NSL 1907 chapter 143 — Act to incorporate the Annapolis Valley Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1908 chapter 131 — Amendment
NSL 1906 chapter 154 — Act to incorporate the Arisaig & Country Harbour Iron & Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1908 chapter 134 — Amendment
NSL 1911 chapter 106 — Amendment
No railway track was ever built by this company.
NSL 1906 chapter 155 — Act to authorize the amalgamation of Atlantic Grindstone, Coal & Railway Co. with Atlantic Grindstone Co. and Fundy Coal Co.
See: Fundy Coal Co.NSL 1896 chapter 86 — Act to incorporate the Atlantic & Inland Railway Co. Ltd.
See: Atlantic & Inland Railway Co. of Nova Scotia Ltd.
The Atlantic & Inland Railway Co. was incorporated by chapter 86 of the Acts of 1896, to build a railway from Liverpool, via Caledonia, to Annapolis or New Germany or Springfield.
Historical notes by John Cameron
http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/
AtlanticAndInlandRailway.htm
NSL 1893 chapter 153 — Act to incorporate the Atlantic & Inland Railway Co. of Nova Scotia Ltd.
See: Atlantic & Inland Railway Co. Ltd.
The Atlantic & Inland Railway Co. of Nova Scotia was incorporated by chapter 153 of the Acts of 1893, to build a railway from Liverpool, via Caledonia, to Annapolis or New Germany.
Historical notes by John Cameron
http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/
AtlanticAndInlandRailway.htm
NSL 1875 chapter 71 — Act to incorporate the East Joggins Mining Co.
NSL 1890 chapter 180 — Change name from East Joggins Mining Co. to Bay of Fundy Railway & Coal Co.
NSL 1907 chapter 144 — Act to incorporate the Bear River & Caledonia Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1911 chapter 110 — Amendment
Incorporated March 1898
April 1906: renamed Halifax & Suburban Electric Company LimitedNSL 1877 chapter 77 — Act to incorporate the Block House Coal Co.
See: Block House Mining Co.NSL 1872 chapter 72 — Act to incorporate the Block House Coal & Railway Co.
See: Block House Coal Co.
NSL 1864 chapter 38 — Act to incorporate the Block House Mining Co.
NSL 1865 chapter 55 — Act to empower the Block House Mining Co. to guarantee bonds of the Sydney & Louisburg Railway Co.
NSL 1868 chapter 58 — Amendment, re borrowing money
NSL 1911 chapter 111 — Act to incorporate the Blomidon Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1913 chapter 165 — Amendment
NSL 1916 chapter 99 — Amendment
On March 31, 1911, an act to incorporate the Blomidon Railway Company Limited was passed by the Nova Scotia Legislature. The act indicates that the new railway would connect with the existing main line track of the Dominion Atlantic Railway at Wolfville, cross the Cornwallis River at Port Williams, and continue generally northward to Canning via Starr's Point and Canard.
At or near Canning there would be a connection with and crossing of the existing Cornwallis Valley Railway. The new Blomidon Railway would run northward from Canning, through Woodside, North Corner, Upper Pereau, and Delhaven. The plan was to build the track to the top of Cape Blomidon to the site of the National Park, and from there continue to Scott's Bay and then to Cape Split.
Mr. Coleman comments: "Today, an old trail of unclear origin runs from the park site straight through the woods to Scott's Bay; perhaps it is the right of way hewed out of the forest by the fledgling Blomidon Railway Company."
A number of prominent professional men and merchants were named in the act as the officers of the proposed line and "it's obvious from this list that the Blomidon Railway was a serious undertaking."
One of the officers, Kentville lawyer Harry H. Wickwire, came from a pioneer family that had long played a prominent role in Kings County. Another officer, Leslie S. Macoun of Ottawa, was the son-in-law of Sir Frederick Borden.
Rumoured to have the blessing of Sir Frederick and with initial capital of a quarter million dollars, the plan to build the Blomidon Railway was far from a fanciful scheme. The act gave the Company two years from the date of incorporation to start work on the railway, but there is no known record of any significant construction work having been done.
The Blomidon Railway was never built.
[Excerpted from
Looking Back: The Blomidon Railway by Ed Coleman, 9 April 1999, one of his regular weekly columns in the Kentville Advertiser.]
NSL 1864 chapter 39 — Act to incorporate the Boston & Bridgeport Coal Mining Co. Ltd.
NSL 1866 chapter 116 — Amendment
NSL 1867 chapter 59 — Amendment
NSL 1893 chapter 147 — Act to incorporate the Boston & Nova Scotia Coal Co. Ltd.
DOM 1894 chapter 4 — Subsidy, Orangedale to Broad Cove
NSL 1887 chapter 56 — Act to incorporate the Boston, Parrsboro & Londonderry Railway & Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.
DOM 1894 chapter 64 — To incorporate the Boynton Bicycle Electric Railway Co. Ltd. to build a monorail railway from Winnipeg via Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Saint John to Louisburg in Nova Scotia
The two mile 3km Bridgeport Tramway, on Cape Breton Island, was opened in 1830 by the General Mining Association. It was abandoned in 1849.
Chronology of Important Dates in Canadian Railway History, by Colin Churcher and Rick Roberts
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/List001/list23.htm
NSL 1905 chapter 134 — Act to incorporate the British American Coal & Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1906 chapter 157 — Amendment
NSL 1921 chapter 152 —
NSL 1928 chapter 142 —
These were primarily coal mining and steel manufacturing companies, but their extensive railway operations require that they be included in this history of railways in Nova Scotia. Beginning in the 1890s and throughout the first half of the twentieth century these companies kept the railways in eastern Nova Scotia busy. As late as the 1990s, and continuing into the spring of 2001, the steel and coal industry in the Sydney area generated about one thousand carloads per month of revenue traffic for the railway between Port Hawkesbury and Sydney, and substantial traffic Hawkesbury - New Glasgow, and New Glasgow - Truro. When the Sydney steel mill and the DEVCO coal mining operations closed in 2001, traffic over the Hawkesbury - Sydney main line railway declined abruptly from about 15,000 carloads annually to barely 2,000.
After a visit to Boston by the Nova Scotian premier, W.S. Fielding, in 1893, the Henry M. Whitney syndicate of Boston and other Nova Scotia businessmen united the Gowrie, Schooner Pond, Clyde, Glace Bay, Caledonia, Reserve, Lorway, Emery, International, Bridgeport, Gardiner, Lingan, Victoria, and other small collieries into the Dominion Coal Company. Henry Whitney was the central figure in this business empire — the Sydney suburb Whitney Pier is named after him. This new company did not, however, contain the operations and coal leases for the north side of Sydney Harbour, which were retained by the General Mining Association until 1900, when they were sold to the Nova Scotia Steel Company of New Glasgow.
Prior to World War One, the Dominion Coal Company occupied a prominent position in the Canadian coal industry. By 1912, the Company had 16 collieries in full operation and its production accounted for 40 percent of Canada's total output.
The Dominion Iron & Steel Company Limited was developed in Sydney by Whitney and his associates to provide a customer for the slack (poor quality) coal which was the result of screening. It should be noted that the Dominion Coal Company and Dominion Iron & Steel Company would become subsidiaries of the Dominion Steel Corporation.
In 1901, Whitney sold control of Dominion Coal Company to a prominent Montreal capitalist, James Ross, and during this time the Dominion Iron & Steel Company was also delivered to Canadian interests, both controlled by Ross and his associates until 1903, when control of the Steel Company was acquired by J.H. Plummer of Toronto. For the next seven years, these two companies, Dominion Coal Co. and Dominion Steel Co., quarrelled until in 1910, Plummer won and the merger gained control over the Cumberland Railway & Coal Co.
Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Company was taken over by American financial interests in 1917.
In 1919, a group of financiers and a syndicate of British industrialists, headed by a Montreal entrepreneur, Roy M. Wolvin, began the takeover of Dominion Steel. Initially, Wolvin proposed to fashion a $500,000,000 merger that would unite Canadian coal, iron and steel resources with the British steel and shipbuilding industries. In 1921, Wolvin and the London shareholders who backed him were able to merge with Nova Scotia Steel.
Thus, it was in the early 1920s that the British Empire Steel Corporation began its operations. But new markets for Nova Scotia coal and steel were hard to find, and hopes of large profits soon faded. During its short eight-year history BESCO was in a permanent state of financial crisis, mainly because it required an annual operating profit of about eight million dollars just to meet financial commitments.
Wolvin, with his directors, undertook a desperate attempt to save the corporation. The coal industry was expected to supply the funds for other areas of the faltering organization. It was at this time that BESCO began their campaign of wage reductions which was strongly opposed by the coal miners. In 1920, after intense lobbying by the company, the Liberal government decided that the provincial royalty on bituminous coal be set at 50 cents per ton, and the Duncan Report called for wider use of Canadian coke in Central Canada. Despite this, BESCO was unable to raise new capital or to return a satisfactory profit. As BESCO deteriorated, internal struggles and anxieties increased. Also prevalent was the labour strife that developed with the workers. Public opinion opposed to the practices of the company was partly responsible for the defeat of the provincial Liberal government which had been associated with the corporation.
After the spring of 1926, when short-term financing was refused him, Wolvin permitted Dominion Iron & Steel Company to slip into receivership. This marked the break-up of BESCO. In 1927, Dominion Steel was liquidated, but the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia declined to close BESCO. With a blunt refusal of reorganizational plans by shareholders, Wolvin sold his holdings and resigned as President of BESCO.
C.B. McNaught was Wolvin's successor. In 1928, J.H. McNaught visited the British investors and the group incorporated a new holding and operating company called the Dominion Steel & Coal Corporation, which took over the BESCO properties. In May 1930, BESCO ceased to exist.
Source: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/coal/history/tdominon.html
Also see: http://www.heritage.nf.ca/environment/mine/ch5p6.html
This railway never reached the stage of having an Act of Incorporation passed by the Legislature (at least not under that name) but fairly extensive planning work was done during the first few years of the twentieth century. The Broad Cove, Baddeck & North Sydney Railway was projected to be built from Broad Cove on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to a point near Broad Cove Mines in Inverness County, on to Southwest Margaree, then following the Southwest Margaree River to Margaree Forks. From here the railway was to continue to Northeast Margaree, then turning nearly southward along the shores of the Lakes O'Law, then following Middle River until it reached Indian Bay on the Little Bras d'Or Lake, and along the shore of the Little Bras d'Or to Baddeck. It was planned to cross the Big Bras d'Or Gut at Seal Island (this would have been a very expensive bridge), through the centre of Boularderie Island to Little Bras d'Or, and onward to Sydney Mines and North Sydney.
Source: page 332, Cape Breton, Canada, at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, (book) by C.W. Vernon, Nation Publishing Company, Toronto, 1903
The community at the planned northern terminal of this railway was named Broad Cove Shean, then Broad Cove Coal Mines. In 1901 the name Broad Cove was officially changed to Inverness.
NSL 1923 chapter 140 — Act to incorporate Evangeline Lodge No. 350, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
NSL 1865 chapter 60 — Act to incorporate the Caledonia Coal & Railway Co.
Caledonia Mine to Port Caledonia, 2¼ miles, opened 1868. The harbour at Port Caledonia was abandoned in 1893 and a railway was built from Caledonia Junction to a connection with the Glace Bay Mining Company near the Sterling Mine. It was purchased by the Dominion Coal Company in March 1894 and the railway became part of the Sydney and Louisburg Railway.
— Colin Churcher
NSL 1892 chapter 159 — Act to incorporate the Canada Coals & Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1893 chapter 189 — Amendment
NSL 1904 chapter 140 — Amendment
On 1 November 1892, Canada Coals & Railway Co. purchased the assets of Joggins Coal & Railway Co.
Halifax, March 16th, 1893: — The Joggins Railway has changed hands, and is now being operated by the Canada Coals and Railway Company.
(signed) Martin Murphy,
Provincial Engineer
Source:
Report of the Provincial Engineer on the Subsidized Railways and
Other Public Works in the Province of Nova Scotia for the Year 1892
Appendix No. 7, page 8
Journals of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia, 1893
About 1904, the Canada Coals & Railway Co. went bankrupt, and the assets were sold to United States interests which reorganized the property under the name Canada Coals & Railroad Co.
Historical notes by Dara Legere #1
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/8913/railway.html
Historical notes by Dara Legere #2
http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/
MaritimeRailway.htm
About 1904, the Canada Coals & Railway Co. went bankrupt, and the assets were sold to United States interests which reorganized the property under the name Canada Coals & Railroad Co. (the American owners preferred to use "Railroad", more familiar to them than the Canadian terminology "Railway"). In 1907 the railway and coal mines were sold for the last time, to the Maritime Coal, Railway & Power Company, which owned and operated an electric generating plant at Chignecto, in Cumberland County. MCR&P continued to operate the railway until 1961.
Historical notes by Dara Legere #1
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/8913/railway.html
Historical notes by Dara Legere #2
http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/
MaritimeRailway.htm
ULC 10-11 Victoria (1847) chapter 122 — To incorporate the Canada, New Brunswick & Nova Scotia Railway Co. to build a railway from Drummondville in Quebec to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
NSL 1854 chapter 1 —
NSL 1854 chapter 2 —
NSL 1855 chapter 6 —
DOM 1929 chapters 13-17 — Canadian National Railways (Lines acquired)
List of companies included in the Canadian National Railways, by Pat Scrimgeour
About 670 companies have been taken into the CNR. Those in Nova Scotia ranged
from the Acadia Coal Company, and the Annapolis and Atlantic Railway,
to the Vale Coal, Iron and Manufacturing Company.
Source: http://pat.scrimgeour.ca/railways/cn_index_of_companies.htm
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DOM 1892 chapter 36 —
NSL 1896 chapter 84 — Act to incorporate the Canso & Louisburg Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1898 chapter 131 — To amend and extend time
NSL 1900 chapter 169 — To further amend and extend time
NSL 1895 chapter 110 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton Coal, Iron & Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1898 chapter 164 — Amendment
NSL 1901 chapter 165 — Act to revive chapter 110 of 1895
NSL 1903 chapter 180 — Amendment
NSL 1905 chapter 132 — Amendment
NSL 1907 chapter 146 — Amendment
NSL 1908 chapter 136 — Amendment
NSL 1913 chapter 192 —
NSL 1915 chapter 91 —
Broughton Junction to Broughton, 2 miles, Broughton Junction to False Bay Head, 2½ miles. Construction began in 1905 and was completed in 1906. The entire project was abandoned in 1907 owing, it is said, to the opposition of the Dominion Coal Company which would not allow its Sydney and Louisburg Railway to carry the coal produced by the mine.
— Colin Churcher
A long article, detailing this company's history, appeared in the Montreal Daily Star, 25 May 1907
Devco Railway was wholly owned by the Cape Breton Development Corporation, a crown corporation,
and was operated as an unincorporated department within that corporation.
— Canadian Transportation Agency Decision No. 571-R-1997
On 18 December 2001, 510845 N.B. Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emera Inc., Nova Scotia's largest electric utility company,
acquired surface assets (railway track, rights-of-way, etc.) from the Cape Breton Development Corporation.
— Canadian Transportation Agency Decision No. 192-R-2002
NSL 1900 chapter 130 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton Electric Tramway & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1901 chapter 159 — Change name to Cape Breton Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1902 chapter 183 — Amendment
NSL 1909 chapter 136 — Amendment
NSL 1911 chapter 115 — Amendment
NSL 1917 chapter 197 — Amend chapter 130 of 1900
NSL 1900 chapter 130 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton Electric Tramway & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1901 chapter 159 — Change name to Cape Breton Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1917 chapter 197 — Amend chapter 130 of 1900
NSL 1902 chapter 132 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton Northern Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1905 chapter 131 — Amendment
NSL 1885 chapter 97 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton & Pictou Iron Co. Ltd.
NSL 1886 chapter 132 — Change name to Cape Breton & Pictou Iron & Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1885 chapter 97 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton & Pictou Iron Co. Ltd.
NSL 1886 chapter 132 — Change name to Cape Breton & Pictou Iron & Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1888 chapter 119 — Amendment
NSL 1886 chapter 76 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton Railway & Annex Steamboat Co. Ltd.
NSL 1875 chapter 30 — Act to encourage the building of a railway from Strait of Canso to Louisburg
NSL 1878 chapter 55 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton Railway, Coal & Iron Co. Ltd.
NSL 1878 chapter 56 —
NSL 1875 chapter 30 — Act to encourage the building of a railway from Strait of Canso to Louisburg
NSL 1884 chapter 70 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton Railway Extension Co. Ltd.
NSL 1886 chapter 75 — Act to revive and amend chapter 70 of 1884
NSL 1890 chapter 72 — Act to incorporate anew
DOM 1894 chapter 4 —
DOM 1899 chapter 7 —
NSL 1899 chapter 126 — Act to incorporate anew
NSL 1900 chapter 168 — Amendment, to authorize CBR to build a branch railway near Barraso's
NS 1902 Order-in-Council — Name changed by deleting "Extension", to Cape Breton Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1902 chapter 67 — Act to authorize Cape Breton Municipality to borrow money for right-of-way for Cape Breton Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1902 chapter 122 — Act to authorize Richmond Municipality to borrow money for right-of-way for Cape Breton Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1902 chapter 123 — Re Richmond Municipality land appraisers
NSL 1902 chapter 190 — Act to amend chapter 126 of 1899, re Cape Breton Railway Extension Co. Ltd.
DOM 1903 chapter 57 —
DOM 1908 chapter 63 —
DOM 1915 chapter 16 —
NSL 1921 chapter 154 — Act to amend chapter 126 of 1899 and chapter 190 of 1902, re Cape Breton Railway Extension Co. Ltd.
On 24 November 1890, the Cape Breton Railway was officially opened for regular traffic.
[National Post, 24 November 2000]
The Cape Breton Railway ran from St. Peters, Richmond County, to its junction with the main line track of the Intercolonial Railway at Point Tupper, a distance of 31.0 miles 49.9 km.
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Elev. above mean sea level feet |
Stations 1915 |
Distance from St. Peters km |
| 0.0 | 66 | St. Peters station | 0.0 |
| 6.0 | 111 | Sporting Mountain station | 9.7 |
| 12.0 | 38 | Grande Anse station | 19.3 |
| 16.3 | 135 | Whiteside station | 26.2 |
| 19.0 | 147 | Basin Road station (summit) | 30.6 |
| 21.0 | 24 | Evanston station | 33.8 |
| 23.0 | 98 | Chapel Road station | 37.0 |
| 31.0 | 9 | Point Tupper switch at junction with the Cape Breton Branch of the Intercolonial Railway (ICR) |
49.9 |
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Source: Altitudes in the Dominion of Canada 1915 (book), by James White, F.R.S.C., F.R.G.S., Deputy Head of the Commission of Conservation, Ottawa
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NSL 1891 chapter 125 — Act to incorporate the Central Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1895 chapter 125 —
NSL 1896 chapter 89 —
NSL 1896 chapter 90 — Act respecting the Central Railway Co. Ltd., the Nova Scotia Central Railway Co. Ltd., and the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. of New York
NSL 1903 chapter 2 —
NSL 1892 chapter 131 — Act to incorporate the Central Short Line Railway Co. Ltd.
DOM 1882 chapter 55 —
DOM 1882 chapter 76 —
DOM 1883 chapter 60 —
NSL 1883 chapter 42 —
NSL 1884 chapter 42 —
DOM 1886 chapter 18 —
DOM 1888 chapter 4 —
NSL 1889 chapter 102 —
NSL 1890 chapter 106 —
DOM 1891 chapter 12 —
DOM 1892 chapter 37 —
NSL 1898 chapter 144 —
From "The Canadian Guide Book: The Tourist's and Sportsman's Guide to Eastern Canada..." (pages 190-191)
1891, by Charles G.D. Roberts, Professor of English Literature at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia
from pages 190-191 of "The Canadian Guide Book..." by Charles G.D. Roberts, 1891
Source: Early Canadiana Online http://www.canadiana.org/
page 190 http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=bb2b4c9564&display=56228+0260
page 191 http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=bb2b4c9564&display=56228+0263
Reference:
Ketchum's Folly (book, 130 pages) by Jay Underwood, published in 1995 by Lancelot Press Limited, Hantsport, Nova Scotia. ISBN 0889995532
This is the most comprehensive history of the Chignecto Ship Railway, that I know of.
NSL 1893 chapter 154 — Act to incorporate the Coast Railway Co. of Nova Scotia Ltd.
NSL 1894 chapter 102 — Act to amend, with power to extend
NSL 1895 chapter 124 — Amendment
NSL 1896 chapter 103 — Act to amend, with power to extend to Lockeport
NSL 1896 chapter 154 —
DOM 1897 chapter 4 —
NSL 1897 chapter 84 — Amendment
NSL 1897 chapter 85 — Amendment
NSL 1899 chapter 123 — Act to provide for reappraisal of land taken for right of way
NSL 1899 chapter 128 — Change name to Halifax & Yarmouth Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1904 chapter 136 — To amend chapter 128 of 1899, respecting the Coast Railway Co. of Nova Scotia Ltd.
The Coast Railway has commenced a regular train service.
[Digby Weekly Courier, 13 August 1897]
The business on the Coast Railway is away beyond the expectations of the management.
[Digby Weekly Courier, 20 August 1897]
Coast Railway begins operations, August 1897
http://alts.net/ns1625/railway02.html#coarns
NSL 1873 chapter 48 — Act to incorporate the Cobequid Iron, Coal & Railway Co. Ltd.
Colchester Coal & Railway Co. Ltd. was incorporated 26 Feb 1903 under the Nova Scotia Companies Act
NSL 1906 chapter 43 —
NSL 1906 chapter 109 — Act to authorize Colchester Municipality to exempt from taxation the Colchester Coal & Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1913 chapter 181 —
NSL 1889 chapter 117 — Act to incorporate the Colonial Iron, Coal & Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1892 chapter 177 — Act to revive and amend chapter 117 of 1889
DOM 1887 chapter 24 —
NSL 1887 chapter 59 — Act to incorporate the Cornwallis Valley Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1888 chapter 87 — Amend, and change route
DOM 1889 chapter 3 —
NSL 1889 chapter 82 — Amend, as to telephone line
NSL 1890 chapter 73 — Amend, as to Farmers' Loan and Trust Co. of New York
NSL 1890 chapter 105 — Act to authorize the Municipality of Kings County to borrow money to pay for land taken for CVR right of way
NSL 1891 chapter 94 — Amendment
NSL 1891 chapter 116 — Amendment, as to connection with the Nova Scotia Central Railway
NSL 1892 chapter 107 — To authorize the sale of the Cornwallis Valley Railway to Windsor & Annapolis Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1892 chapter 108 —
NSL 1893 chapter 102 —
The Cornwallis Valley Railway —
As sanctioned by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, held on June 24th, 1892, the purchase of the Cornwallis Valley Railway was duly effected, a moiety [one half] of the purchase money being payable in cash, and the balance in debentures [bonds] authorized by the said meeting. The transfer of the property was made on July 26th, 1892, since which date it has been an integral part of the Windsor & Annapolis Railway Company's system. The CVR branch, 14 miles 23 km long, has proved of service in stimulating business on the trunk line, and in consolidating generally the W&AR Company's interests.
Source:
Report of the Directors of the Windsor & Annapolis Railway Company for their fiscal year ending 30 September 1892, as quoted in:
Report of the Provincial Engineer on the Subsidized Railways and
Other Public Works in the Province of Nova Scotia for the Year 1892
Appendix No. 7, page 7
Journals of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia, 1893
The Cornwallis Valley Railway —
The Cornwallis Valley Railway is now [March 1893] merged in the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company. The purchase was effected in June 1892, and the transfer was made on 26 July 1892. Since that date it has been operated as part of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company's road.
(signed) Martin Murphy,
Provincial Engineer
Source:
Report of the Provincial Engineer on the Subsidized Railways and
Other Public Works in the Province of Nova Scotia for the Year 1892
Halifax, March 16th, 1893
Appendix No. 7, page 8
Journals of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia, 1893
History of the Cornwallis Valley Railway
http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/
CornwallisValleyRailway.htm
1949 DAR Passenger Train Schedule
Kingsport - Canning - Centreville - Aldershot - Kentville
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy05.html
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DOM 1883 chapter 77 —
DOM 1884 chapter 77 —
DOM 1887 chapter 24 —
DOM 1887 chapter 86 —
DOM 1903 chapter 57 —
DOM 1908 chapter 100 —
DOM 1928 chapter 57 —
March 1911
See: Dartmouth Tram & Power Company LimitedApril 1908
See: Dartmouth Tram & Power Company Limited
NSL 1890 chapter 189 — Act to incorporate the Dartmouth Tram & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1908 chapter 138 — Act to revive and amend chapter 189 of 1890
NSL 1904 chapter 146 — Act to incorporate the Davison Tramway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1905 chapter 135 — Change name from Davison Tramway Co. Ltd. to Springfield Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1906 chapter 158 —
NSL 1915 chapter 95 —
NSL 1920 chapter 182 —
The Davison Tramway Co. and the Springfield Railway Co. were closely associated with the Davison Lumber Company, headquartered in Bridgewater.
Devco Railway was wholly owned by the Cape Breton Development Corporation and was operated
as an unincorporated department within that corporation.
— Canadian Transportation Agency Decision No. 571-R-1997
NSL 1879 chapter 65 — Act to authorize the Government to aid a Railway between Digby and Yarmouth
NSL 1893 chapter 141 —
NSL 1893 chapter 142 —
NSL 1893 chapter 143 —
DOM 1894 chapter 69 —
DOM 1895 chapter 47 — To incorporate the Dominion Atlantic Railway Co. Ltd.
DOM 1895 chapter 69 —
DOM 1898 chapter 8 —
DOM 1900 chapter 59 —
NSL 1901 chapter 114 — To authorize the Town of Kentville to borrow money for bonus to the Dominion Atlantic Railway Co. Ltd.
DOM 1903 chapter 57 —
DOM 1905 chapter 85 —
NSL 1905 chapter 130 — Act respecting the purchase of the Midland Railway by the Dominion Atlantic Railway Co. Ltd.
DOM 1907 chapter 40 —
DOM 1908 chapter 101 —
DOM 1910 chapter 51 —
DOM 1910 chapter 88 —
NSL 1910 chapter 134 —
NSL 1910 chapter 135 —
NSL 1910 chapter 136 — Act respecting the North Mountain Division of the Dominion Atlantic Railway
DOM 1911 chapter 72 —
DOM 1912 chapter 86 —
NSL 1912 chapter 201 — Amendment
DOM 1914 chapter 84 —
NSL 1916 chapter 87 — Act to change the name of Kingston Station, Kings County
NSL 1977 chapter 93 — Act to authorize the Town of Wolfville to purchase property of the Dominion Atlantic Railway
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Dominion Atlantic Railway history by Jim Simmons
http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/
DominionAtlanticRailway.html
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Passenger Trains to/from Digby 1897 Summer Schedule On and after July 3rd, 1897, the Steamship and Train Service of this Railway will be as follows:
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1936 DAR Passenger Train Schedule
Truro - South Maitland - Kennetcook - Scotch Village - Windsor
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy11.html
1949 DAR Passenger Train Schedule
Kingsport - Canning - Centreville - Aldershot - Kentville
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy05.html
1949 DAR Passenger Train Schedule
Halifax - Windsor - Kentville - Annapolis Royal - Digby - Yarmouth
Showing connections at Digby to/from Boston, Montreal, Toronto
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy06.html
1949 DAR Passenger Train Schedule
Kentville - Hantsport - Windsor - Kennetcook - South Maitland - Truro
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy04.html
1949 DAR-CNR Connecting Passenger Train Schedule
Windsor - Wolfville - Middleton - New Germany - Bridgewater
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy07.html
1949 DAR-CNR Connecting Passenger Train Schedule
Yarmouth - Digby - Annapolis Royal - Middleton - New Germany - Bridgewater
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy08.html
1949 DAR-CNR Connecting Passenger Train Schedule
Kingsport - Canning - Kentville - Middleton - New Germany - Bridgewater
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy09.html
1949 DAR Passenger Train Schedule
Kingsport - Canning - Kentville - Hantsport - Windsor - Halifax
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy10.html
1949 CNR-DAR Connecting Passenger Train Schedule
Sydney - Antigonish - Truro - Kennetcook - Windsor - Kentville - Digby - Yarmouth
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy12.html
1949 CNR-DAR Connecting Passenger Train Schedule
Sydney - Antigonish - Truro - Windsor - Middleton - New Germany - Bridgewater
http://alts.net/ns1625/railwy13.html
NSL 1893 chapter 145 — Act to incorporate the Dominion Coal Co. Ltd.
NSL 1905 chapter 61 —
NSL 1906 chapter 159 — Act respecting bridges on Dominion Coal Company's railway in Sydney
NSL 1919 chapter 142 — Act to incorporate Dominion Coal Workers' Relief Association
NSL 1933 chapter 134 —
NSL 1949 chapter 128 —
NSL 1952 chapter 114 —
NSL 1970-71 chapter 116 — Act to amend chapter 142 of 1919
NSL 1976 chapter 85 — Act to further amend chapter 142 of 1919
NSL 1984 chapter 13 — Act to repeal chapter 142 of 1919
Source: page 192, Cape Breton, Canada, at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, (book) by C.W. Vernon, Nation Publishing Company, Toronto, 1903
Note: Henry M. Whitney was a wealthy electric streetcar magnate (West End Street Railway) and real estate developer (West End Land Company) in Boston.
Note: The obituary of Elizabeth Winsor Coolidge of York, Maine, in the Portsmouth, Maine, Portsmouth Herald, 22 August 2001, mentions her grandfather, Robert Winsor, a banker who was a partner at Kidder Peabody & Company in Boston. This is believed to be the same person who was one of the first directors of the Dominion Coal Company.
By March 1st, 1894, the Dominion Coal Company had acquired and paid for in full about seventy square miles 180 square kilometres of coal lands. These included the following collieries (mines) in the Galce Bay - Sydney area:
• Caledonia [404] formerly owned by the Caledonia Coal & Railway Co.
• International [247] formerly owned by the International Coal Co.
• Gardiner [350] formerly owned by Burchell Bros., Sydney
• Glace Bay [343] formerly owned by the Galce Bay Mining Co.
• Old Bridgeport [165] formerly owned by the International Coal Co.
• Reserve [347] formerly owned by the Sydney & Louisburg Coal & Railway Co.
• Gowrie [350] formerly owned by the Gowrie Coal Mining Co.
• Victoria [--] formerly owned by the Low Point, Barrasios & Lingan Mining Co.
(Note: In [square brackets] are the number of men employed at each colliery, as reported in the Dominion Coal Company's first annual report, 31 December 1893.)
Source: page 192, Cape Breton, Canada, at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, (book) by C.W. Vernon
DOM 1897 chapter 4 —
NSL 1897 chapter 81 — Act to incorporate the Dominion Eastern Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1898 chapter 130 — Amendment
NSL 1899 chapter 131 — Amendment
NSL 1899 chapter 139 — Act to incorporate the Dominion Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.
NSL 1900 chapter 66 —
NSL 1900 chapter 118 —
NSL 1928 chapter 69 —
NSL 1928 chapter 70 —
NSL 1954 chapter 68 —
NSL 1976 chapter 68 —
NSL 1928 chapter 141 — Act to incorporate the Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd.
NSL 1932 chapter 131 —
NSL 1939 chapter 107 —
NSL 1921 chapter 152 —
NSL 1928 chapter 142 —
NSL 1889 chapter 121 — Act to incorporate the East Bay Railway Co.
See: Sydney & East Bay Railway Company Ltd.
NSL 1907 chapter 147 —
NSL 1913 chapter 100 —
NSL 1913 chapter 114 —
NSL 1947 chapter 113 —
NSL 1874 chapter 62 — Act to incorporate the Eastern Counties Railroad Co.
NSL 1876 chapter 71 — Act to amend, and extend time
NSL 1876 chapter 3 —
NSL 1876 chapter 4 —
DOM 1877 chapter 46 —
NSL 1878 chapter 47 — Payment for land for right of way
DOM 1879 chapter 12 —
NSL 1879 chapter 66 —
NSL 1883 chapter 19 —
NSL 1883 chapter 21 — Act to confirm agreements with Halifax & Cape Breton Railway & Coal Co. Ltd.respecting the Eastern Extension Railway
NSL 1883 chapter 73 — Respecting the claims of Charles C. Gregory
NSL 1884 chapter 1 — Act to authorize the transfer of the Eastern Extension Railway to the Government of Canada
DOM 1884 chapter 5 —
NSL 1905 chapter 3 — Act respecting claims of municipalities for refund relating to land taken for right of way
Order in Council 1876-1042
Subject: Proposed transfer of the Intercolonial Railway's Pictou and Truro Branch to a Company to build a railway from New Glasgow to the Strait of Canso (the Eastern Extension)...
The undersigned [Minister of Public Works, Ottawa] has the honor to report that an Order in Council was passed on the 7th February 1876, authorizing notice being sent to the Government of the Province of Nova Scotia that the Dominion Government would be prepared to submit a proposition to Parliament for the transfer of the Truro & Pictou Branch Railway to a Company which might undertake, in consideration thereof, the construction of a railway line to the Straits of Canso, and thence to West Bay, at the head of the Bras D'Or Lake, including a Steam Ferry across the Straits...
OIC 1876-1042, page 1
OIC 1876-1042, page 2
OIC 1876-1042, page 3
OIC 1876-1042, page 4
OIC 1876-1042, page 5
OIC 1876-1042, page 6
OIC 1876-1042, page 7
OIC 1876-1042, page 8
OIC 1876-1042, page 9
OIC 1876-1042, page 10
OIC 1876-1042, page 11
OIC 1876-1042, page 12
OIC 1876-1042, page 13
Approved: 9 November 1876
— Source:
Ottawa, Federal Government Orders in Council
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020157_e.html
Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia —
Halifax, 19 April 1883: —
"I congratulate you (the Members of the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly) on the passage of legislation to take over the Eastern Extension Railway, together with the Pictou Branch of the Intercolonial Railway. These properties will, it is confidently believed, prove of great value to the Province, and it is hoped will be the means of materially assisting in carrying out further railway extension, especially in the Island of Cape Breton."
The above is the fourth paragraph of the speech at the closing of the 1883 session of the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly, by Lieutenant-Governor Adams George Archibald, 19 April 1883.
Source: Page 131 of the 1883 section of:
Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia, 1883-90
NSL 1870 chapter 59 — Act to incorporate the Eastern Railway Co.
NSL 1871 chapter 62 — Amendment re grant of land
NSL 1876 chapter 3 — To amend the Acts relating to Eastern Railway Extension
NSL 1876 chapter 4 — Act to confer certain privileges on parties tendering for the construction of the Eastern Railway
NSL 1879 chapter 66 — To amend the Acts relating to Eastern Railway Extension
NSL 1875 chapter 71 — Act to incorporate the East Joggins Mining Co.
NSL 1890 chapter 180 — Change name to Bay of Fundy Railway & Coal Co.
NSL 1902 chapter 137 — Act to incorporate the Egerton Tramway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1903 chapter 234 — Amendment
NSL 1904 chapter 133 — Act respecting assessment of the Egerton Tramway in New Glasgow, Stellarton, and Westville
NSL 1906 chapter 160 — Amendment
NSL 1909 chapter 142 — Act to confirm contract between New Glasgow Electric Co. Ltd. and Egerton Tramway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1909 chapter 143 — Amendment and name changed
NSL 1910 chapter 163 — Amendment
NSL 1916 chapter 105 — Amendment
NSL 1952 chapter 135 —
On 18 December 2001, 510845 N.B. Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emera Inc., Nova Scotia's largest electric utility company,
acquired surface assets (railway track, rights-of-way, etc.) from the Cape Breton Development Corporation.
— Canadian Transportation Agency Decision No. 192-R-2002
510845 N.B. Incorporated's railway operated trains to carry coal from the international pier on the waterfront in Sydney to
a coal storage facility in Victoria Junction, and from Victoria Junction to the Lingan power generating plant
owned by Nova Scotia Power Inc., on Cape Breton Island.
DOM 1875 chapter 71 —
See: Consolidated European & North American Railway Co.
NSL 1908 chapter 71 — Act to provide for establishment of Sir Sanford Fleming Park
NSL 1910 chapter 17 — Amendment
NSL 1903 chapter 202 — Act to incorporate the Fundy Coal Co. Ltd.
NSL 1906 chapter 155 — Act to authorize the amalgamation of Atlantic Grindstone, Coal & Railway Co. with Atlantic Grindstone Co. and Fundy Coal Co.
NSL 1836 chapter 87 — Act to incorporate the General Mining Association
NSL 1841 chapter 14 — To incorporate again
NSL 1851 (page 156) —
NSL 1858 chapter 1 — Act for giving effect to the surrender to Her Majesty by the legal representatives of the late Duke of York and Albany, and by the GMA and their trustee, of the Mines in Nova Scotia...
NSL 1858 chapter 2 —
NSL 1858 chapter 48 — To amend chapter 1 of 1858, as to clerical errors, &c.
NSL 1870 chapter 95 — To revive and continue the Act of incorporation, as amended
NSL 1871 chapter 61 — To amend, adding to the name the word Limited
NSL 1874 chapter 69 —
NSL 1889 chapter 120 —
NSL 1868 chapter 53 — Act to incorporate the Glasgow & Cape Breton Railway Co.
NSL 1872 chapter 71 — Act to incorporate the Glasgow & Cape Breton (Nova Scotia) Coal & Railway Co. Ltd.
A company organized (incorporated) in England, and known as the Gowrie & Blockhouse Colliery Company of Newcastle, is now (1903) mining about 150 tons of coal a day from the Gowrie and Blockhouse Colliery near Port Morien, Cape Breton. It has erected a shipping pier with storage bins able to hold 800 tons of coal in readiness for transfer to ships. The coal is conveyed from the mine to the pier by an aerial ropeway system, the rope travelling at a speed of five miles eight km per hour.
Source: pages 227 and 278, Cape Breton, Canada, at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, (book) by C.W. Vernon, Nation Publishing Company, Toronto, 1903
NSL 1891 chapter 126 — Act to incorporate the Granville Valley & Victoria Beach Railway Co. Ltd.
See: Granville & Victoria Beach Railway & Development Co. Ltd.
Historical notes by John Cameron
http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/
MiddletonAndVictoriaBeachRailway.htm
NSL 1897 chapter 82 — Act to incorporate the Granville & Victoria Beach Railway & Development Co. Ltd.
NSL 1899 chapter 129 — Amendment
NSL 1901 chapter 160 — Act to revive and amend chapter 82 of 1897, re Granville & Victoria Beach Railway & Development Co. Ltd.
NSL 1903 chapter 175 — Act to revive and amend chapter 82 of 1897, re Granville & Victoria Beach Railway & Development Co. Ltd.
Historical notes by John Cameron
http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/
MiddletonAndVictoriaBeachRailway.htm
NSL 1882 chapter 23 — Act to incorporate the Great American & European Short Line Railway Co.
NSL 1884 chapter 7 — Amentment as to arbitrators
NSL 1885 chapter 39 — Act to confirm agreement with the North American Construction Company, the Great American & European Short Line Railway Company, and William Stewart and W.H. Chisholm
Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia —
Halifax, 9 April 1883: — "The Great American & European Short Line Railway bill was referred back to select committee for further consideration."
Halifax, 10 April 1883: — "Hon. J.B. Dickie, as chairman of the Select Committee to whom were referred the bill to amend the Act to Incorporate the Great American & European Short Line Railway bill reported, that the committee had reconsidered the bill and recommended the same to the favourable consideration of the House without amendment."
Source: Page 94 of the 1883 section of
Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia, 1883-90
NSL 1909 chapter 147 —
NSL 1910 chapter 142 — Act changing name, etc.
NSL 1877 chapter 74 — Act to incorporate the Whitehaven Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1886 chapter 164 — Act to change name to Guysborough & Atlantic Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1889 chapter 123 — Amendment
NSL 1890 chapter 78 — Change name back to Whitehaven Railway Co. Ltd.
Sealed Tenders addressed to the undersigned and endorsed "Tender for Guysboro - Country Harbor line" will be received at this office until 16 o'clock, on Friday, September 15th, 1911, for section No. 1 of the above line of railway, comprising that portion extending from Guysboro to Country Harbor Cross Roads and from the latter point to Deep Water, Country Harbor.
Plans, profiles, specifications and form of contract to be entered into can be seen on or after the 15th instant [August 15, 1911] at the office of the Chief Engineer of the Department of Railways and Canals, Ottawa; at the office of the Chief Engineer of the Intercolonial Railway, Moncton; and at the office of the Board of Trade, Halifax. Forms of tender may be procured from the Chief Engineer of the Intercolonial Railway. Parties tendering will be required to accept the fair wages schedule prepared or to be prepared by the Department of Labor, which schedule will form part of the contract.
Contractors are requested to bear in mind that tenders will not be considered unless made strictly in accordance with the printed forms, and in the case of firms, unless there are attached the actual signature, the nature of the occupation, and the place of residence of each member of the firm.
An accepted [certified] bank cheque for the sum of $100,000, made payable to the order of the Minister of Railways and Canals must accompany each tender, which sum will be forfeited if the party tendering declines entering into contract for the work, at the rates stated in the offer submitted. The cheque thus sent in will be returned to the respective contractors whose tenders are not accepted. The cheque of the successful tenderer will be held as security, or part security, for the due fulfilment of the contract to be entered into. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.
By order, L.K. Jones, Secretary
Department of Railways and Canals, Ottawa
[Halifax Morning Chronicle, 22 August 1911]
and reprinted in Addresses delivered by Hon. James Cranswick Tory, LL.D. (book) published by The Mortimer Company Limited, Ottawa, 1932. Mr. J.C. Tory was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1911-1923, and Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia 1925-1930.
On October 5th, 1911, an announcement appeared in the two daily Halifax newspapers, as follows:
An Order-in-Council has been passed awarding the contracts for the extensions of the Intercolonial Railway in Nova Scotia for which money was unanimously voted by Parliament last June, and for which the tenders were received over a month ago. The lowest tenderer in each case is awarded the contract. The branch from Dartmouth to Deans will be built by M.P. Davis, and the Guysboro County line will be built by the Nova Scotia Construction Company. The Government in awarding the contracts have simply complied with the mandate of Parliament and have followed the usual procedure in concurring in the recommendation of the Departmental Engineers as to the lowest figures submitted by the various firms tendering.
[Halifax Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1911]
[Halifax Herald, 5 October 1911]
and reprinted in Addresses delivered by Hon. James Cranswick Tory, LL.D. (book) published by The Mortimer Company Limited, Ottawa, 1932.
NSL 1876 chapter 4 —
NSL 1876 chapter 74 — Act to incorporate the Halifax & Cape Breton Railway & Coal Co. Ltd.
NSL 1878 chapter 47 — Payment for land for right of way
NSL 1879 chapter 6 —
NSL 1879 chapter 70 — To amend chapter 74 of 1876, as to proceedings taken by Harry Abbott
NSL 1883 chapter 19 —
NSL 1883 chapter 21 — To confirm agreements with Halifax & Cape Breton Railway & Coal Co. Ltd.respecting the Eastern Extension Railway
NSL 1886 chapter 55 — Respecting the claims of Charles C. Gregory
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NSL 1863 chapter 83 — Act to incorporate the Halifax City Railroad Co.
NSL 1866 chapter 98 — Amend, Province may assume ownership
NSL 1870 chapter 99 — Amendment
NSL 1899 chapter 127 — Act to incorporate the Halifax & Colchester Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1901 chapter 170 — Amendment
NSL 1874 chapter 74 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Co. Ltd.
NSL 1875 chapter 72 —
NSL 1886 chapter 126 —
NSL 1886 chapter 161 —
NSL 1886 chapter 162 — Act to carry into effect amalgamation of Acadia Coal Co. with Halifax Co. Ltd. and Vale Coal, Iron & Manufacturing Co.
NSL 1870 chapter 58 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Cotton Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
See: Nova Scotia Cotton Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
NSL 1906 chapter 161 — Act to incorporate the Halifax & Eastern Railway Co.
DOM 1912 chapter 2 —
DOM 1929 chapter 34 —
NSL 1895 chapter 107 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Electric Tramway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1896 chapter 87 — Amendment
NSL 1902 chapter 180 — Act to amend chapter 107 of 1895
NSL 1906 chapter 66 — Act respecting taxation by City of Halifax
NSL 1911 chapter 11 — Of Street Railway Companies
NSL 1912 chapter 209 —
NSL 1912 chapter 78 —
NSL 1913 chapter 194 —
NSL 1897 chapter 92 — Act respecting amalgamation of Halifax Gas light Co. with People's Heat & Light Co.
"The first trolley car started out on February 13, 1896," according to a technical paper Halifax Electric Tramway Plant and Steam Engineering read on May 7, 1907, by Philip A. Freeman, Chief Engineer of the Halifax Electric Tram Company, before the Nova Scotia Society of Engineers. It is unclear whether this was a test run or the beginning of regular service, but it is certain that the electric street railway was able to operate at least one car on the track on this day.
NSL 1886 chapter 2 — Act to incorporate the Halifax & Great Western Railway Co.
NSL 1896 chapter 83 — Act to incorporate the Halifax & Guysborough Railway Co.
NSL 1897 chapter 86 — Amendment, authority to build branch to Canso
NSL 1906 chapter 1 — Act to provide for construction of Halifax & Guysborough Railway
NSL 1911 chapter 28 — Amendment
NSL 1887 chapter 53 — Act to incorporate the Halifax & North Eastern Railway Co. Ltd.
Incorporated May 1867
NSL 1884 chapter 62 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1886 chapter 123 — Amendment
NSL 1902 chapter 1 — Act respecting the Halifax & South Western Railway Co.
NSL 1902 chapter 2 — Act confirming charter
DOM 1903 chapter 57 —
NSL 1903 chapter 75 — To enable the City of Halifax to contribute toward the cost of land for right of way
NSL 1903 chapter 83 — To enable Halifax Municipality to contribute toward the cost of land for right of way
NSL 1903 chapter 152 — To authorize Chester Municipality to borrow money to pay for land taken for H&SWR right of way
NSL 1904 chapter 34 — Act to authorize extension of time
NSL 1904 chapter 53 — Amendment
NSL 1904 chapter 54 — Amendment
NSL 1904 chapter 55 — Amendment
NSL 1904 chapter 109 — To authorize Town of Bridgewater to borrow money to pay for land taken for H&SWR right of way
NSL 1904 chapter 135 — Amendment
NSL 1905 chapter 1 — Act relating to Halifax & South Western Railway Co. and Halifax & Yarmouth Railway Co. and Middleton & Victoria Beach Railway Co.
NSL 1905 chapter 122 — Act respecting crossing of streets in Shelburne
DOM 1906 chapter 43 —
NSL 1906 chapter 129 —
NSL 1907 chapter 11 —
NSL 1907 chapter 12 — Amendment
NSL 1907 chapter 14 — Act relating to Liverpool & Milton Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1907 chapter 80 — Act respecting Patrick Kehoe, damages by H&SWR Co. Ltd.
DOM 1908 chapter 63 —
NSL 1908 chapter 127 — Act respecting H&SWR right of way
NSL 1909 chap
