Local Government In the Maritime Provinces
…Halifax is also exacted. Exemptions are numerous and important. Among others may be mentioned the property of widows to the value of $400, implements or tools of farmers, mechanics or…
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Statistics Relative to Nova Scotia in 1851
…Lawyers 143 Engaged in the fisheries 9,927 Doctors 145 Registered seamen 1,413 Merchants and traders 2,415 Employed at sea 3,961 Employed in manufactories 3,200 Engaged in lumbering 1,254 Mechanics 8,895…
Speech on Elective Councils (Senate)
…before the upper branch is rendered elective. But, it is said, the Councils would in that case be filled with persons of low estate; with farmers, and mechanics, who know…
Amicitia Crescimus
…mechanics increasingly erased since being unilaterally overturned by the BNA in 1867 in what’s become a pattern of action ever since. The challenges of promoting a “common country” in a…
Note by the Commissioner on the Sources of Land Titles in Maine
The development of that political jurisdiction and sovereignty, which at the end of more than two centuries ripened into State Independence in 1820, is so peculiar and interesting, and the…
Royal Letters, Charters, and Tracts, Relating to the Colonization of New Scotland, and the Institution of the Order of Knight Baronets of Nova Scotia, 1621-1638
August 5, 1621. JAMES R. RIGHT trusty and welbeloued Coscns and Counsellours and right trusty and welbeloued Counsellours Wee greete you well. Haueing euer beene ready to em brace anie…
Nova Scotian “Sparks of Liberty”
…in the following paragraph by Observer: A Provincial Government is, in Fact, nothing more than a Corporation, instituted thro’ the Courtesy of the King, for the Convenience of His Subjects,…
Annual Report 1952
Citizens of Dartmouth, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit my report and comments on the civic events of 1952. Dartmouth continued to march forward during 1952 but…
Annual Report 1953
CITIZENS OF DARTMOUTH, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have the honour to submit my report and comments on the civic events of 1953. The year 1953 showed acceleration in the progress…
Are Municipalities Creatures of the Provinces?
This is a provocative question, who has the authority to create local government, where do the powers to institute local government come from, what authorizes their creation and dissolution? “This…