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Canning, Nova Scotia, Canada

Nova Scotia's Electronic Attic

Specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia

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blue ball Nova Scotia Quotations
    http://alts.net/ns1625/quotes.html

blue ball A Fierce War: The Electric Telegraph Lines Between New York and Halifax
New York, January 24, 1850: — ...That the public may not be misled in this matter, the Associated Press deem it proper to make the following statement of facts ... About January 1849, the New York newspapers Journal of Commerce, Courier and Enquirer, Herald, Sun, Tribune, and Express, through their Committee, in an interview with Mr. L.R. Darrow, the Superintendent of the new Saint John Electric Telegraph Line, then nearly finished, arranged to run an express, on the arrival of each Cunard Royal Mail steamer at Halifax, from that point to Saint John, New Brunswick, the eastern terminus of the Telegraph at that time, on condition of having the privilege of transmitting a despatch of three thousand words to Boston and New York, leaving copies if wanted, at the intermediate towns and cities. The press were granted the exclusive use of the wires from the moment their despatch was offered until it was finished. This was deemed necessary to warrant the vast outlay anticipated, and as a protection to the public. Other parties, however, were not shut out from the use of the wires. If they could anticipate our agent at the telegraph office, their messages were sent through to their destination ... The Associated Press, previous to the new enterprise, had employed the express steamer Buena Vista to run from Halifax to Boston; and at the time of effecting the arrangement with Mr. Darrow, five of the associated newspapers had the steamer Newsboy employed in cruising off Sandy Hook, to meet with the steamships coming from Europe. The news brought by the Buena Vista cost nearly $1,000 each time it was transmitted to New York, and the expenses of the Newsboy were at the rate of over $20,000 per annum, which were cheerfully paid by the Courier and Enquirer, Herald, Journal of Commerce, Sun, and Express, the owners of the steamer at that time. After the overland express from Halifax to Saint John was established, the Newsboy was withdrawn, but the cost of getting the European news increased. An examination of the bills of the last year exhibited the enormous expenditure, in that short space of time of $29,700, most of which went into the pockets of the telegraph companies...
(Signed)
      Gerard Hallock, New York Journal of Commerce
      Horace Greeley & Thomas McElrath, New York Tribune
      George H. Andrews, New York Courier & Enquirer
      Moses S. Beach and Alfred E. Beach, New York Sun
      James Brooks & Erastus Brooks, New York Express
      James Gordon Bennett, New York Herald
      New York, January 24, 1850

blue ball Nova Scotia Stuff Another website specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia
    http://www.geocities.com/newscotland1398/index.html

blue ball County maps Individual maps for each of Nova Scotia's counties
    http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/muns/info/mapping/counties.stm

blue ball Where is Canning?
    Good map of Kings County showing Canning, Wolfville, Kentville...

blue ball The 1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express
    http://geocities.com/newscotland1398/ponyexpress/ponyexdx.html

blue ball Little-Known Portions of Nova Scotia History
    http://alts.net/ns1625/histindx.html

blue ball Marconi Wireless Telegraph in Nova Scotia
    http://alts.net/ns1625/marconi020.html

blue ball Marconi's Three Transatlantic Radio Stations in Cape Breton
    http://www.geocities.com/newscotland1398/marconi100/marconi1.html

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

blue ball Westray Mine Disaster, 9 May 1992
    http://alts.net/ns1625/wraymenu.html

blue ball Westray Mine Public Inquiry 1995-96, online transcript
    http://www.geocities.com/newscotland1398/950003qx.html

blue ball 1849: Communications between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick A hundred clippings, originally published in 1849, describing the movement of information between these two then-independent colonies.
    http://alts.net/ns1625/nb1849.html

blue ball History of Railway Companies in Nova Scotia
This is a history of all railway companies in Nova Scotia. How many have there been? Twenty? Forty? Sixty? Here's a list, from the Amherst Street Railway, to the Great American & European Short Line Railway, to the Yarmouth & Digby Electric Railway.

blue ball History of Telephone Companies in Nova Scotia
In December 1919, there were 223 telephone utility companies operating telephone systems in various parts of Nova Scotia, according to the 1919 Annual Report of the Nova Scotia Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities.

blue ball History of Electric Companies in Nova Scotia
How many separate public utility companies have operated electricity generating and/or distribution systems in Nova Scotia? 10? 20? 30? Here's a list, from the Acadia Electric Light Co. Ltd. to the Zwicker Electric Power Co. Ltd.

blue ball History of Automobiles in Nova Scotia
A history, mostly excerpts from contemporary sources, of the early days of automobiles in Nova Scotia: The first few autos, speed limits, laws relating to autos, highway conditions, the ways people reacted to the new machines, etc.

blue ball Nova Scotia Schools on the Internet

History of Nova Scotia
with special attention given to Communications and Transportation
  1. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Before 31 December 1759
  2. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1760 to Dec 1779
  3. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1780 to Dec 1819
  4. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1820 to Dec 1839
  5. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1840 to Dec 1849
  6. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1850 to Dec 1869
  7. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1870 to Dec 1889
  8. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1890 to Dec 1899
  9. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1900 to Dec 1909
  10. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1910 to Dec 1919
  11. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1920 to Dec 1939
  12. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1940 to Dec 1959
  13. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1960 to Dec 1979
  14. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1980 to Dec 1989
  15. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, From Jan 1990 to Dec 1993
  16. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1994 Jan to Dec
  17. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1995 Jan to Dec
  18. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1996 Jan to Dec
  19. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 January - June
  20. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 July - September
  21. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 October - November
  22. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 December
  23. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 January - February
  24. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 March - April
  25. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 May
  26. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 June
  27. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 July - August
  28. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 September - October
  29. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 November - December
  30. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 January - March
  31. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 April - June
  32. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 July - August
  33. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 September
  34. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 October
  35. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 November
  36. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 December 1-15
  37. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 December 16-31
  38. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 January 1-15
  39. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 January 16-31
  40. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 February
  41. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 March
  42. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 April
  43. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 May
  44. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 June
  45. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 July
  46. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 August
  47. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 September
  48. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 October
  49. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 November 1-15
  50. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 November 16-30
  51. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 December
  52. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 January
  53. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 February
  54. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 March
  55. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, from 2001 April onward
blue ball Excellent Satellite View of the Bay of Fundy

blue ball The Search Warrant, 22 September 2000

blue ball Parade of Sail Images Chebucto Community Net's Tall Ship Image Archive from the Fenwick Place Webcam, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2000

blue ball Nova Scotia Webcams
Tatamagouche WebCam Located on the front of the Learning Centre on Main Street, Tatamagouche. This camera responds to the Internet viewer's commands to move left or right. It updates every time you load the page or change the view.
    http://www.tata.ns.ca/robocam.html
Bridgewater WebCam Highway 103 at Exit 12, looking eastward (uphill) toward Halifax. The LaHave River crossing is about 400 metres behind the camera. In the scene, Bridgewater lies to the right, and New Germany to the left. New image every three minutes. Includes weather information at the site, such as temperature (air and pavement), wind speed, and barometric pressure over the last several hours.
    http://www.gov.ns.ca/tran/webcam/bridgewater.stm
Cape Breton webcam image refreshed every 60 secomnds
    http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/samson3/cbcam.htm
Martock Snow Cam operates during the snow season, December through March
    http://www.martock.com/snowcam.html
Kentville webcam looks out a window in the Town hall
    http://142.176.17.53/townofkentville/webcam/default.asp
NovaPunk Cow Bay webcam
    http://www.novapunk.com/webcam/cam1.html
Fenwick Place webcam updated every two minutes. Fenwick Place is the tallest building in metropolitan Halifax. Webcam by Chebucto Community Net, Dalhousie University, and Carlow Protection Services.
    http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Webcam/index.cgi
Halifax Harbour webcam view from Ferry Terminal
    http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~jrice/halifax.html
CBC's Halifax Harbour webcam updated every 30 seconds
    http://www.halifax2.cbc.ca/webcam/camview.jhtml
Dalhousie University webcam at University Ave. and Henry St. in Halifax
    http://www.cs.dal.ca/cam/index.html

blue ball Google's Directory of Nova Scotia County websites
    http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/
        Canada/Nova_Scotia/Counties/

blue ball UARB Power Failure Report The official report of the Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Board, requested by Premier Russell MacLellan, "into the manner in which Nova Scotia Power Inc. provided service to its customers during Power Outages occurring on its System during the months of November and December 1997."
    http://www.geocities.com/newscotland1398/electr09.html

blue ball Nova Scotia Government
75 pixel spacer NovaSource: Information about the Government of Nova Scotia The first edition of NovaSource has chapters for 17 Departments, 18 Public Service bodies, and 24 Agencies, Boards and Commissions (this section also includes tribunals, associations, authorities and foundations), as well as references to many others...
75 pixel spacer The Premier's Expense Account, 1996
75 pixel spacer The Premier's Expense Account, 1995
75 pixel spacer Opposition Leader's Expense Account, 1996
75 pixel spacer Opposition Leader's Expense Account, 1995

blue ball Legal Fees Paid to Firms Representing Victims of Institutional Abuse

1997 Feb 13, The Tangled Web
Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Decision on: Bluenose Enterprises Ltd. (plaintiff) and Eddy MacKay (defendant)

1997 Jan 15, Freedom of Information Report 96-70
In the matter of a Request for Review by Robert Chisholm, MLA, of a Decision of The Waterfront Development Corporation to Withhold Certain Documents.

1997 Jan 07, Home Invasion Robbery Appeal
Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, Decision on: Her Majesty the Queen, Appellant, and Scott Alexander Fraser, Respondent.

1996 Sep 05, Punitive Damages Awarded Against the Crown
Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, Decision on the Appeal by Gail Brenda Roose, and Cross-Appeal by Douglas Hollett and the Attorney General of Nova Scotia.

blue ball Map of Nova Scotia the best on-line map of Nova Scotia that I know of

blue ball Maps of federal electoral districts in Nova Scotia

blue ball Historical Errors in The Dominion Institute's Great Questions series
    http://www.geocities.com/newscotland1398/dominion.html

blue ball Pictures of Technology-Related Subjects

blue ball Photograph of my workplace at 3 am, 10 January 1997

blue ball Spring Equinox dates and times of day, for a thousand years

Trecothic Creek & Windsor Railway


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What The Internet Is Going To Do

Anyone With A Modem Now Can Participate

This Changes Everything


...Exalted minds don't appear to have a clue what this Internet's going to do; what we're going to make of it — what this is all going to turn into. But I have glimpses. And sometimes deep in the middle of the night I tell them to Bill Paley.

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

The difference between the Internet, television and radio, magazines, newspapers is the two-way communication. The Net gives as much voice to a 13-year-old computer geek like me as to a CEO or speaker of the House. We all become equal.

And you would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows. From a little corner in my apartment, in the company of nothing more than my 486 computer and my six-toed cat, I have consistently been able to break big stories, thanks to this network of ordinary guys...

And this is something new. This marks the first time that an individual has access to the news wires outside of the newsroom. You get to read all the news from the Associated Press, UPI, Reuters, to the more arcane Agence France Presse...

And time was only newsrooms had access to the full pictures of the day's events, but now any citizen does. We get to see the kinds of cuts that are made for all kinds of reasons; endless layers of editors with endless agendas changing bits and pieces, so by the time the newspaper hits your welcome mat, it had no meaning.

Now, with a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world — no middle man, no big brother.

And this changes everything...

[Excerpted from the speech Anyone With a Modem Can Report On The World, delivered by Matt Drudge to the National Press Club, Washington, on 2 June 1998. Complete text of the speech.]


Search Engines & Indexes, etc.



blue ball Internet Traffic Report

search the Net maze Search Engine Watch a great place to keep an eye on what's happening in this important part of the Web...

search the Net maze Google Search Engine 560,000,000 webpages indexed, as of June 2000
[I get consistently better results from Google than from any other search service.]
Google


Google ignores common words and characters, known as stop words. Google automatically disregards such terms as "http" and "com," as well as single letters and certain single digits, because these terms rarely help narrow a search, and can slow down searching significantly.

Use the "+" symbol to include stop words in your search. Be sure to include a space before the "+" symbol. You can also include the "+" symbol in phrase searches. For example, to search for George V, enter
George +V


Sometimes it is helpful to choose certain words or phrases to exclude from a search; you want all relevant results except those containing a certain word or phrase. Google supports this "not" functionality with the minus symbol ("-"). Use the minus symbol to purposefully exclude a term from your search. Be sure to include a space before the minus symbol and Google will ignore all pages containing that word. For example, to search for pages about bass but not speaker systems, enter
bass -speaker


Special Search Function: The query link: (followed by a URL) shows you all the backlinks for a given URL — that is, what pages point to that URL. For example,
link:alts.net/ns1625/wraymenu.html
will show you all the pages that point to this webpage..

search the Net maze Google Image Search


search the Net mazeBackground information on search engines, etc.
The Web Robots FAQ So what are Robots, Spiders, Web Crawlers, Worms, Ants?
The Web Robots Pages

search the Net maze BookFinder By far the best way I've found to find secondhand books online. A test run to find any book by L.T.C. Rolt (the great historian of technology) turned up at least five times as many books as I had ever before been able to locate.

search the Net maze Maple Square "All-Canadian content Internet directory."
(September 2001): A test search using the keyword Westray turned up nothing!

search the Net maze Canada.com (Southam Inc.)

search the Net maze CanadaOne Canadian business

search the Net maze Special Search Engines, Directory This is a list of search engines for locating information by specific topics/subjects or by geographical groupings. One of the best resources for finding specialized search engines. These specialized search engines go a considerable distance toward making the Internet a less-difficult place to find what you want.

search the Net maze SavvySearch Metasearch the major search engines and guides...

search the Net maze HotBot

search the Net maze Lycos

search the Net maze AltaVista
30 pixel spacer AltaVista Canada only indexes websites stored on servers located within Canada. [Thus AltaVista Canada's claim to be a valid index to Canadian content on the WWW is, at best, misleading. There are many websites with Canadian content, which run on servers located outside Canada's borders, and AltaVista Canada arbitrarily excludes all of these. Not to mention that a website that has non-Canadian content but which happens to run on a server located within Canada, will be included.]

search the Net maze Web Wombat 2,700,000 Australian webpages



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

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Latest revision: 2002 January 20