(Dartmouth as seen from) “Halifax”
Bezant, Graham. 1979. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0105553F&R=DC-TSPA_0105553F
Tag: 1970s
View on Navy Yard and New Span Bridge to Dartmouth
Spremo, Boris. “View on Navy Yard and New Span Bridge to Dartmouth”. 1975. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0105558F&R=DC-TSPA_0105558F
Body politic, Body corporate; City limits
An examination of the legislated spatial dimensions of Dartmouth – from its initial definition as a township, care of the Royal instructions that accompanied Cornwallis in 1749, to its dissolution by fiat into a county masquerading as a city in Nova Scotia’s municipal coup of 1996. “And whereas for the better security, regulation and government of our said settlement, it will be necessary that such persons as we shall judge proper to send to our said province should be settled in townships; you are therefore hereby authorized and required to appoint such proper persons as you shall find there fully qualified to carry along with you forthwith to survey and mark out the said townships in such manner and at such places as is herein directed, that is …
Delegate Support Patterns at Nova Scotian Leadership Conventions
“The final candidate, Roland Thornhill, 38, was something of an outsider and was viewed as a dark horse. Born in Newfoundland, Thornhill’s family had moved to Dartmouth when he was quite young. Thornhill had never sought provincial office, but was the mayor of Dartmouth. He was a businessman and a Protestant.” Stewart, David K. “Delegate Support Patterns at Nova Scotian Leadership Conventions” Dalhousie Review, Volume 69, Number 1, 1989 https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/60988/dalrev_vol69_iss1_pp95_126.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Dartmouth in the Legislature, Public Acts 1789-1996
A list of all of the acts passed in the Nova Scotia legislature from 1789-1996 in regards to Dartmouth, be it “Dartmouth Town”, the “Dartmouth town plot”, “Dartmouth township”, the “Town of Dartmouth” or the “City of Dartmouth”.
