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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 Schools on the Internet
    http://ns1758.ca/wwwschools/nschools.html

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

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

blue ball Nova Scotia Stuff Another website specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia
    http://ns1758.ca/index.html

blue ball Military Memorials in Nova Scotia
    http://ns1758.ca/remem/military-memorials.html

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

blue ball Oldest Newspaper in Canada
    http://www.alts.net/ns1625/news01.html


Timeline of the Seven Years War 1754-1763
 The period 2004-2013 is the 250th anniversary of the 
Seven Years War, a.k.a. the French and Indian War.
Includes important events in Nova Scotia.

Mirror site: Timeline of the Seven Years War 1754-1763

blue ball The 1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express
    http://ns1758.ca/ponyexpress/ponyexdx.html
1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express Monument Victoria Beach
    http://ns1758.ca/annapco/ponyexmon.html

blue ball Photographs of War Memorials, Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
    http://ns1758.ca/remem/plaques.html
Robert Borden Monument The monument in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, with a plaque commemorating Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister of Canada 1911-1920
    http://ns1758.ca/kingsco/borden_rl.html
Abraham Gesner Monument Chipman Corner
    http://ns1758.ca/kingsco/gesnermem.html
Memorial: Commonwealth Air Training Program, 1939-1945 Middleton
    http://ns1758.ca/annapco/bcatpww2.html
Deadman's Island Northwest Arm, Halifax
    http://ns1758.ca/hfxrm/deadmansnd.html

blue ball1 February 1999
Ode to the Code As the Morse Code is officially retired, a former radio operator recalls its glory days as the communications medium of the world's oceans...
    http://alts.net/ns1625/sgr-cbh.html
Farewell to Morse Code Canadian marine radio operators mourned the official phasing out of Morse code as the worldwide distress call of the high seas...
    http://alts.net/ns1625/morse01.html

blue ball Fieldwood Heritage Society Canning
    http://fieldwoodhs.ednet.ns.ca/index.html

blue ball Wolfville Historical Society
    http://wolfvillehs.ednet.ns.ca/index.html

blue ball Friends of Crescent Beach, Green Bay and Area Society
    http://www.crescentbeach.ca/

blue ball Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society
    http://novascotiarailwayheritage.com/

blue ball Westray Mine Disaster, 9 May 1992
    http://alts.net/ns1625/wraymenu.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 1924, there were 279 telephone utility companies operating telephone systems in various parts of Nova Scotia, according to the 1924 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.



History of Nova Scotia
with special attention given to Communications and Transportation
  1. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Before 31 December 1699
  2. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1700 to Dec 1769
  3. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1770 to Dec 1775
  4. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1776 Jan to Dec
  5. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1777 to Dec 1779
  6. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1780 to Dec 1819
  7. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1820 to Dec 1839
  8. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1840 to Dec 1849
  9. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1850 to Dec 1859
  10. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1860 to Dec 1869
  11. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1870 to Dec 1879
  12. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1880 to Dec 1889
  13. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1890 to Dec 1893
  14. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1894 to Dec 1899
  15. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1900 to Dec 1904
  16. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1905 to Dec 1909
  17. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1910 to Dec 1919
  18. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1920 to Dec 1939
  19. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1940 to Dec 1949
  20. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1950 to Dec 1959
  21. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1960 to Dec 1969
  22. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1970 to Dec 1979
  23. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1980 to Dec 1989
  24. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1990 to Dec 1993
  25. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1994 Jan to Dec
  26. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1995 Jan to Dec
  27. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1996 Jan to Dec
  28. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 January - June
  29. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 July - September
  30. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 October - November
  31. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1997 December
  32. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 January
  33. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 February
  34. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 March
  35. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 April
  36. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 May
  37. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 June
  38. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 July
  39. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 August
  40. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 September - October
  41. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1998 November - December
  42. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 January - March
  43. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 April - June
  44. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 July - August
  45. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 September
  46. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 October
  47. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 November
  48. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 December 1-15
  49. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 1999 December 16-31
  50. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 January 1-15
  51. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 January 16-31
  52. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 February 1-15
  53. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 February 16-28
  54. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 March 1-19
  55. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 March 20-31
  56. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 April 1-14
  57. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 April 15-30
  58. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 May 1-9
  59. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 May 10-31
  60. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 June 1-15
  61. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 June 16-30
  62. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 July 1-18
  63. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 July 19-31
  64. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 August 1-5
  65. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 August 6-31
  66. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 September 1-12
  67. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 September 13-30
  68. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 October 1-21
  69. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 October 22-31
  70. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 November 1-12
  71. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 November 13-19
  72. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 November 20-30
  73. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 December 1-19
  74. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2000 December 20-31
  75. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 January 1-21
  76. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 January 22-31
  77. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 February
  78. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 March
  79. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2001 April - December
  80. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2002 January - 2003 December
  81. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2004 January - 2005 December
  82. Go To: History of Nova Scotia, 2006 January onward

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

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

blue ball Pictures of Technology-Related Subjects

EFC Supporter
Electronic
Frontier
Canada 		EFC Blue Ribbon - Free Speech Online
Blue
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Campaign


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...

blue ball Dead Search Engines by Greg R. Notess

search the Net maze Google Search Engine
Google



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 maze Google Maps


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.



Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine
http://web.archive.org/index.html

"Use the Wayback Machine to view web sites from the past."


Archive of This Document:
Nova Scotia Stuff, 1625

The Wayback Machine has copies of this webpage from the early days:

Archived: 1998 December 5
http://web.archive.org/web/19981205020405/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 1998 December 6
http://web.archive.org/web/19981206213947/www.alts.net/ns1625/
Archived: 1999 January 28
http://web.archive.org/web/19990128034319/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/
Archived: 1999 April 20
http://web.archive.org/web/19990420013638/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 1999 October 11
http://web.archive.org/web/19991011052609/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/
Archived: 1999 November 22
http://web.archive.org/web/19991122081050/http://alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 1999 December 18
http://web.archive.org/web/19991218223527/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2000 February 29
http://web.archive.org/web/20000229161207/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2000 March 7
http://web.archive.org/web/20000307041811/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2000 May 19
http://web.archive.org/web/20000519233457/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2000 June 12
http://web.archive.org/web/20000612191230/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2000 July 7
http://web.archive.org/web/20000707000908/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2000 October 5
http://web.archive.org/web/20001005165405/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2000 December 6
http://web.archive.org/web/20001206012500/http://alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2001 April 6
http://web.archive.org/web/20010406212533/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2001 June 2
http://web.archive.org/web/20010602021801/http://alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2001 October 19
http://web.archive.org/web/20011019183517/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2002 January 24
http://web.archive.org/web/20020124021417/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/index.html
Archived: 2002 June 11
http://web.archive.org/web/20020611065348/http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/index.html

Note: The fourteen-digit number embedded in these URLs is structured: YYYYMMDDhhmmss.
This is the date and time the site was archived.



What makes the Web so valuable
— its immediacy, vastness and lack of any central controlling authority —
also make it difficult to preserve.


The Wayback Machine, a service from the Internet Archive and Alexa Internet, allows people to access and use archived versions of stored websites. Visitors to the Wayback Machine can type in an URL, select a date, and then begin surfing on an archived version of the web. The Wayback Machine is built so that it can be used and referenced by anybody and everybody.

The original idea for the Wayback Machine began in 1996, when the Internet Archive first began archiving the web. Now, five years later, with over 100 terabytes and a dozen web crawls completed, the Internet Archive has made the Wayback Machine available to the public.

What type of machinery is used in the Wayback Machine?
The Internet Archive is stored on dozens of slightly modified Hewlett Packard and uslab.com servers. The computers run on the FreeBSD and Linux operating systems. Each computer has about 512megabytes of memory and generally holds just over 300 gigabytes of data on IDE (integrated drive electronics) disks.

Source: Wayback Machine Overview, 24 October 2001
    http://www.archive.org/wayback/press_kit/index.html


The name "Wayback Machine" originated in Rocky and Bullwinkle, a TV cartoon series from the 1960s. Peabody's Improbable History featured dog-genius Mr. Peabody and his associate Sherman traveling through history via Peabody's "Wayback Machine."

Reference:
Public Access to Digital Materials
    http://www.archive.org/news/colloquia/2001/whitepaper.html
The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world ... The technology has gotten to the point where scanning all books, digitizing all audio recordings, downloading all websites, and recording the output of all TV and radio stations is not only feasible but less costly than buying and storing the physical versions...

Archiving the Internet by Brewster Kahle, November 1996
    http://www.archive.org/sciam_article.html
The early manuscripts at the Library of Alexandria were burned, much of early printing was not saved, and many early films were recycled for their silver content ... The history of early materials of each medium is one of loss and eventual partial reconstruction through fragments. A group of entrepreneurs and engineers have determined to not let this happen to the early Internet...


The Wayback Machine has archived copies of this document:
Selected Nova Scotian Home Pages
(No longer available online)

Archived: 1999 February 2
http://web.archive.org/web/19990202154313/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/nselectd.html
Archived: 1999 October 23
http://web.archive.org/web/19991023051859/http://alts.net/ns1625/nselectd.html
Archived: 2000 May 26
http://web.archive.org/web/20000526060955/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/nselectd.html
Archived: 2000 June 19
http://web.archive.org/web/20000619020720/http://alts.net/ns1625/nselectd.html




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

On 17 September 2003, my e-mail addresses <rustfrog@auracom.com> and <rustfrog@han.auracom.com> were shut down permanently, because of the junk e-mail problem.

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First uploaded to the WWW:   1996 August 04
Latest update:   2006 June 14