Nova Scotia's Electric Scrapbook

Specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia

Welcome to /ns1763.ca/
Canning, Nova Scotia, Canada


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Nova Scotia stuff

Nova Scotia Schools on the Internet
    http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_scrapbook/ns1763.ca/wwwschools/nschools.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.
http://ns1763.ca/remem/7yw-timeline-w.html

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

Photographs of
War Memorials and Historic Monuments
Indexed by County

•  Annapolis County
•  Antigonish County
•  Cape Breton Regional Municipality
•  Colchester County
•  Cumberland County
•  Digby County
•  Guysborough County
•  Halifax Regional Municipality
•  Hants County
•  Inverness County
•  Kings County
•  Lunenburg County
•  Pictou County
•  Queens Regional Municipality
•  Richmond County
•  Shelburne County
•  Sunbury County
•  Victoria County
•  Yarmouth County

Photographs of War Memorials, Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
    http://ns1763.ca/remem/plaques.html

Sir Robert Laird Borden monument Sir Robert Laird Borden monument Grand Pre
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/borden_rl.html

John Cabot 1497 memorial John Cabot 1497 memorial Aspy Bay
    http://ns1763.ca/victco/aspycabot.html

Port Dauphin Naval Base monument, 1713-1719 Port Dauphin Naval Base monument, 1713-1719 Englishtown
    http://ns1763.ca/victco/portdauphin.html

1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express monument 1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express monument Victoria Beach
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/ponyexmon.html

Nova Scotia Pony Express 1849
    http://ns1763.ca/ponyexpress/ponyexdx.html

Cunard Steamship Fleet 1849
    http://ns1763.ca/ponyexpress/ponyex13.html

Memorial, unidentified dead, Halifax Explosion, 6 December 1917 Memorial, Unidentified Dead, Halifax Explosion 1917 Halifax
    http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/unidentified1917.html

Westport: Joshua Slocum memorial Joshua Slocum memorial Westport
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/slocumjmem.html

Transtlantic Telegraph historic site 1856 Transtlantic Telegraph historic site 1856 Aspy Bay
    http://ns1763.ca/victco/cabotcablem.html

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial Park Westray Miners Memorial Park New Glasgow
    http://ns1763.ca/pictouco/westraymem.html

Anna Swan monument Anna Swan monument Central New Annan
    http://ns1763.ca/colchco/swanamon.html

Welsford-Parker monument Welsford-Parker monument, Crimean War Halifax
    http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/crimeamon.html

S.S. Atlantic 1873 memorial at Sandy Cove, Terence Bay S.S. Atlantic 1873: memorial at Sandy Cove Terence Bay
    http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/ssatlanhrm.html

Swissair Flight 111 Memorial, Bayswater Swissair Flight 111 memorial, Bayswater
    http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/swissbaysw.html

Memorial: Commonwealth Air Training Program Memorial: Commonwealth Air Training Program, 1940-1945 Middleton
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/bcatpww2.html

Chester bronze cannons Chester bronze cannons Chester
    http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/chesbronzcann.html

Captain James Cook monument Captain James Cook monument Halifax
    http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/cookjmon.html

Sir Robert Laird Borden monument Sir Robert Laird Borden monument Grand Pre
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/borden_rl.html

Abraham Gesner monument Abraham Gesner monument Chipman Corner
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/gesnermem.html

1747 Attack at Grand Pre monument 1747 Attack at Grand Pre monument Grand Pre
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/attack1747.html

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

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

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

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

Nova Scotia's Electronic Attic
Another website specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia
    http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html

Nova Scotia Quotations
    http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/quotes.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



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

A Fierce War: The Electric Telegraph Lines Between New York and Halifax
...The vexations endured by the Associated Press management in the early days (1849-1850) were aggravated by dissentions which grew up between the managers of some of the Morse telegraph lines and the press. There were also contentions between the members of the press in Boston and other places, fanned if not engendered by the jealousies of some of the Morse lines, and especially by those under the control of F.O.J. Smith. This gentleman refused to have steamers' news come over his line from Halifax, for the Associated Press, unless they dismissed Mr. Craig, then acting as their Halifax agent. This led to a rupture, by which the press of Boston became divided. The Association retained Mr. Craig, and ran a special locomotive express at an enormous expense with each steamer's news, from Portland to Boston, there being no telegraph between these two points except that owned by Smith. From Boston it came over by the Bain line to New York. The Association also, by its encouragement, caused a company to extend the Bain line from Boston to Portland, where it connected with the lines extending thence to Halifax, and which were beyond the control of Smith. The war was a very fierce one; many phamphlets appeared on both sides, including one by Mr. Craig in his defence against Smith's charges. The latter left no stone unturned. Among other efforts to thwart the Association, it is said that he endeavored to get control of one of the links on the Halifax line east of Portland. He also appealed to the Provincial Legislature of New Brunswick, and protested against the management of the Halifax line by its superintendent; but all without avail. His success in putting the newspaper press by the ears was not only less difficult, but more complete. At one time Smith refused to receive and transmit private messages handed in by merchants and others for Halifax, or to let anything come over his line from Halifax...
[ Page 140, Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph, by Alexander Jones, 1852, published by George E. Putnam, New York.]


(Alexander Jones was the first General Manager of the Associated Press in New York.)





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

Westray Coal Mine Disaster

Minas Tides — Eighth Wonder of the World one of Ed Coleman's columns
    http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/ecoleman/editorial/1998/e98apr17.html

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

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



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

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