Halifax County and Townships

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1. History of the townships of Dartmouth, Preston and Lawrencetown, Halifax county, N.S. “The annals of Dartmouth and its sister townships contain several tales of a by-gone era, whose recital has often brought tears to humble eyes and which may yet have a charm for a more general and critical audience.” “Shortly after...
2. Old Annapolis Road After piecing together several Crown land grant maps, you can see the path of the Old Annapolis Road much more clearly. Open the image in a new tab, to see it in more detail. Below you’ll find a few representations...
3. The Memorial of the citizens of Halifax and the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Halifax, setting forth the necessity of making Halifax the winter port of Canada “That ample time has now elapsed since the building of the Intercolonial Railway and the clearing away of the difficulties which at first beset the rapid and regular running of the trains and the patience of the people of the...
4. Population Shifts in the Maritime Provinces “THE first enumeration of the people in what is now the Dominion of Canada was made at Port Royal in 1605 by De Monts’s band of settlers. The returns of this census are still extant. Not until 1671, however, was...
5. Missionary enterprise among the [black] people of the Maritime Provinces of Canada African Methodist Episcopal Church of Nova Scotia. Missionary Enterprise Among the Coloured People of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. [Halifax, N.S.?: s.n., 1899. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t87h1xk0h...
6. Vacation days in Nova Scotia “Dartmouth, with its pretty chain of lakes… (is) well worth a visit” Anderson, Thomas F. “Vacation days in Nova Scotia” Kentville, N.S. : Dominion Atlantic Railway, 1908. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.71101/52?r=0&s=1...
7. Town of Dartmouth and surrounding communities, 1908 From: Geological Survey of Canada, Multicoloured Geological Map no. 1019, 1908, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/107885 (Open Access), https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=107885...
8. Persons who have spent a lifetime in Dartmouth are often ignorant of its beauties From: “Glimpses of Halifax and surroundings along the lines of the Dominion Atlantic and Central Railways: Beautifully illustrated with views of Halifax, Dartmouth, Weymouth, Digby and the Annapolis Valley”, 1900 https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.64895/25?r=0&s=1...
9. A history and geography of Nova Scotia “Dartmouth, which was settled in the year after the founding of Halifax, suffered most from the [Mi’kmaq]. Six men belonging to this place were attacked whilst cutting wood in the forest; four of them were killed and scalped, and one...
10. To the electors of the county of Halifax “Much misrepresentation has been indulged in concerning the increased debt of the Dominion, and comparisons made between it and the federal debt of the United States most unfair to Canada… the different purposes for which the two debts were incurred...