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Stephen P. Benjamin

1837 – 1912

Tombstone

Wolfville
Nova Scotia

Located in Willowbank Cemetery on the east side of Gaspereau Avenue
at the Willow Avenue intersection

GPS location: 45°05'15"N 64°21'29"W

The above photographs were taken on 8 June 2004.

Nova Scotia Electric Light Company Limited
White Rock Mills Tramway Gaspereau, Kings County, Nova Scotia

NSL 1873 chapter 24 — Act to authorize the construction of a Tramway from White Rock Mills, by S.P. Benjamin and others
NSL 1897 chapter 111 — Act to incorporate S.P. Benjamin Co. Ltd.
NSL 1899 chapter 135 — Act to incorporate the Nova Scotia Electric Light Co. Ltd.
NSL 1900 chapter 165 — Amendment respecting sale by S.P. Benjamin Co. Ltd.
NSL 1901 chapter 174 — Amendment
NSL 1902 chapter 171 — Amendment

"NSL" refers to Acts of the Nova Scotia Legislature.

See: History of Electric Companies in Nova Scotia

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Lumber Baron and Mystery Entrepreneur by Ed Coleman, 13 August 2004
"The most considerable lumber merchant in the county for the
past 20 or 30 years has been Mr. S. P. Benjamin," A.W.H. Eaton
notes in his Kings County history, published in 1910.
"His ownership of lumber woods and his large shipments of lumber give
him a conspicuous place in the county's long role of enterprising men..."
Benjamin owned the first telephone in Wolfville...
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/ecoleman/editorial/2004/e04aug13.html

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

Mona Parsons tombstone Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/parsonsmona.html

Alfred Fuller memorial Somerset
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/fullermon.html

Planters monument Horton Landing
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/plantermon.html

Planters cairn Town Plot, Starrs Point
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/starrspt.html

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

J.F. Herbin memorial Grand Pre
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/herbin_jf.html

Iron Cross monument Horton Landing
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/ironcross.html

1967 Willow Park plaque Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/wolfwillow.html

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

Harold Borden monument, 1900 Canning
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/borden_h.html

Ebenezer Bigelow shipyard monument Canning
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/bigelowyardm.html

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

North Mountain airplane crash memorial Brow of Mountain
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/browmtn.html

Wolfville war memorial Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/wolfmem.html

Canning war memorial Canning
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/cannmem.html

Acacia Villa School monument Hortonville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/avschool.html

Prescott House Starrs Point
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/prescottcr.html

Wellington Dyke Starrs Point
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/wellington.html

Marguerite Woodworth tombstone Church Street
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/woodworth.html

Perez Coldwell memorial, 1852 "A man from Gaspereau"
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/coldwellp.html

Go To: Index to other online Nova Scotia History
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/histindx.html
Go To: 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
Go To: History of Telephone Companies in Nova Scotia
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/telephone.html
Go To: History of Railway Companies in Nova Scotia
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/railways.html
Go To: History of Electric Companies in Nova Scotia
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/electric.html
Go To: History of Automobiles in Nova Scotia
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/automobiles.html
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