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Dorin, Patrick C.

The Canadian National Railways' Story / by Patrick C. Dorin.  First Edition Seattle : Superior Pub. Co., 1975. 206 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE2810 C14 D67 1975

This book examines the services provided by the CN System from 1919 to 1975, with the various types of train services highlighted both historical and geographically from Newfoundland to British Columbia.

Canadian National Railways — History
Railroads — Canada — History

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Ketchum, H. G. C.

Chignecto Marine Transport Railway the isthmian transit between the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St. Lawrence / H.G.C. Ketchum.  London : 1884. 19 frames : map.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 09340 - Open Shelf    Internet Archive

Railroads — Canada.

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Intercolonial Railway Canada

General instructions no. 2. to the engineering staff / Intercolonial Railway.  Halifax : 1869. 9 frames.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 08328 - Open Shelf    Internet Archive

Signed and dated : Sandford Fleming, chief engineer, Intercolonial Railway Office, Halifax, 25th March, 1869.

Fleming, Sandford, Sir, 1827-1915.

Railroads — Canada — Track

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Papers and correspondence relating to the contract between the government of Nova Scotia and the International Contract Company for the construction of the Truro and Moncton, or the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Intercolonial Railway London : 1868. 17 frames.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 07516 - Open Shelf    Internet Archive

Fleming, Sandford

Canadian Pacific Railway reports in reference to location of second section west of Red River / Sandford Fleming.  Ottawa : 1880. 12 frames.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 05454 - Open Shelf    Internet Archive

At head of title: Confidential.

Railroads — Canada

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Bush, Edward F.

Canadian railway technology, 1836-1961 / by Edward F. Bush.  Ottawa : Parks Canada, 1982. illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche C212 76 - Open Shelf

Parks Canada.

Railroads — Canada — History
Transportation — Canada — History.

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Douglas, Althea

Canadian railway records : a guide for genealogists / by Althea Douglas, J. Creighton Douglas.  Toronto : Ontario Genealogical Society, 1994. 64 pages : 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.406 #1 - Vertical File

Tennant, Robert Dawson

The Quill-and-Rail catalogue : a bibliographical guide to Canadian railroads Halifax : Tennant Pub. House, 1976. 92 pages.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.362 #2 - Vertical File

Railroads — Canada — Bibliography.

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Canadian National Railways

List of stations and designating numbers, Atlantic and Central Region / Canadian National Railways.  Canadian National Railways 1940. 100 pages; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.315 #16 - Vertical File

Form 963. Rev. March 1, 1940.

Railroads — Canada — Stations

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Canadian directory of railway museums and displays Windsor, Lancelot Press. illustrations; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.238 #7 - Vertical File

Carmichael-Smyth, Robert

The employment of the people and the capital of Great Britain in her own colonies : at the same time assisting emigration, colonization, and penal arrangements, by undertaking the construction of a great national railway between the Atlantic and the Pacif London : W.P. Metchim, 1849. viii, 75 pages, 3 pages of plates 2 folded : ill.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.182 #4 - Vertical File

Text signed p. 47: Robert Carmichael-Smyth. References: Casey I 2168; Lowther 17; Peel 131 note.

Railroads — Canada

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Royal train, 1958 Yagar Book Services, 1978. 10 pamphlets in 1 portfolio.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.77 #26 - Vertical File

Visits of state — Canada
Railroads — Trains

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Railway extension Ottawa : Department of the Secretary of State, 1874. 35 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - COX V/F V.14 #2 - Cox

At head of title: Railway extension Cataloguer's title

Annand, William, 1808-1887.

Canada. Dept. of the Secretary of State, ed.

Railroads — Canada
Railroads and state — Nova Scotia

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Pictou Co. Historical Society

The saga of The Samson, Canada's oldest locomotive New Glasgow : Pictou Co. Historical Society, 1968. 4 pages illustrations 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - COX V/F V.13 #9 - Cox

Attributed to Pictou Co. Historical Society.

Railroads — Canada — Colonies
Mine railroads — Nova Scotia — New Glasgow

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Young, George R.

Articles on the great colonial project of connecting Halifax and Quebec by a railroad and ultimately the Atlantic and the waters of Lake Huron : with an appendix illustrative of the cost, mode of raising the capital, and returns / by George R. Young.  Halifax : 1847. 40 pages ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK HEY8 - Akins

From: The Novascotian.

Novascotian.

Railroads — Canada — Surveying.

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On the national, political, and commercial importance of a railway from Halifax to Quebec : with an appendix, containing extracts from important despatches and acts of Parliament relating thereto, minutes of proceedings at meetings, &c. &c. &c. : with a m London : W. Penny, 1858. 85 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : folded map ; 22

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK HEON1 - Akins

References: Casey I 2719; NUC pre-1956, v. 430, pages 463.

Railroads — Canada.

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On the military & commercial importance of completing the line of railway from Halifax to Quebec : to which is added, official correspondence, proceedings at deputations, copies of memorials to her Majesty's government, petitions to the imperial Parliamen London : W. Penny, 1862. vi, 146 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK HEON - Akins

Railroads — Canada
Railroads — Economic aspects — Canada
Canada — Defenses.

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Cogswell, Henry H.

Views relative to the construction of a railway from Halifax to Quebec, by the British government : as the most efficient and economical means of promoting the prosperity of the British North American colonies, and securing their continued connection with / by Henry H. Cogswell.  Halifax : Printed at the British North American Office, 1852. 8 pages ; 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK HEIN8f - Akins

Written in September, 1851. Text in double columns.

British North American (Halifax, N.S.)

Railroads — Canada.

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Doull, Alexander

Employment and colonization for the million : based upon a proposed railway communication from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the territories of British North America, being a paper read before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Ip / by Alexander Doull.  London : Canadian Land and Railway Association, 1851. 15 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK HED75e - Akins

Railroads — Canada
Canada — Colonization.

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Canada railway act : an act for raising by way of loan, a sum not exceeding four millions of pounds currency, for making a mainline of railway throughout the length of this province

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK HEC16w - Akins

Two items bound together, 3 sheets.

Railroads — Canada

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Canadian Pacific Railway Company

An Act Respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK HEC16a - Akins

Railroads — Canada

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Canadian official railway guide with gazetteer Montreal, International Railway Pub. tables, maps. 20-23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TFC16

Railroads — Canada — Periodicals

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Canadian Transport Commission. Railway Transport Committee

Eastern transcontinental passenger-train hearings : summary of evidence Ottawa : Canadian Transport Commission, Railway Transport Committee, 1978. 60, 69 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TF570 C36 1978

Text in English and French, each with special t.pages and separate paging.

Railroads — Canada, Eastern — Passenger traffic

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Fleming, Sandford

Report on surveys and preliminary operations on the Canadian Pacific railway up to January 1877 Ottawa : MacLean, Rogers, 1877. xvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HEC16e 1877

Martin, J. Edward

On a streak of lightning : electric railways in Canada / by J. Edward Martin.  Delta, B.C. : Studio E, 1994. 256 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE5429 M37 1993

Electric railroads — Canada — History.

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