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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 4to. 27cm, 47p., printed on newsprint, illustrated with sketch drawings & several photos, illustrated wraps, fine condition (atl). ~ ".the little known history of Cape Breton as a birthplace of militant working class struggle in Canada. "The booklet was researched, designed, and prepared by a group under the Opportunities for Youth program funded by the Secretary of State, Ottawa. …

Zustand: Good. 4to [oblong]. 198 pp., Soft Cover, Very Good, some shelf wear. Black and White Photographs.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Step into a world of innovation and progress with the Cape Breton Railway Extension Company of Canada. This fascinating historical account traces the development of the railway system in Canada, chronicling the Company's groundbreaking work in extending rail lines throughout the country. Experience the challenges and successes of Canada's pioneering transportation industry.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Step into a world of innovation and progress with the Cape Breton Railway Extension Company of Canada. This fascinating historical account traces the development of the railway system in Canada, chronicling the Company's groundbreaking work in extending rail lines throughout the country. Experience the challenges and successes of Canada's pioneering transportation industry.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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1979. (hardcover) Fine. NP. 4to. Scarce. Maroon textured faux leather. Gilt tile to front. Local history published to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the municipal government of District 16, Nova Scotia. Black and white photographs. Brief histories. Adverts. Fine copy. Cape Breton County District 16 Centennial 1979 Souvenir Copy. Thomas Bray, Editor-in-Chief.…

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Folio (12¼" X 15¼", image area 10½" X 13½"). Hand colored. Very good. Slightly age toned, with mild soiling (mainly about edges). A nice example of this well-colored multi-province Canadian map, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc." Small vignette map at lower right depicts "City and Harbor of Halifax.".…

Folio (12¼" X 15¼", image area 10½" X 13½"). Hand colored. Very good. Light age toning only. Attractive example of this superbly-colored multi-province Canadian map, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc." Small vignette map at lower right depicts "City and Harbor of Halifax.". …

one-page folio. (horizontal folds, several tears with no loss of text). matted & framed (size of frame: 21.75 x 16 inches; 55.2 x 40.6 cm.). A distinguished military engineer, DesBarres served in the British Army in North America during the Seven Years' War, and participated in the capture of Louisbourg in 1758 and of Quebec in 1759. General James Wolfe used a chart which he prepared of the St. Lawrence River and approaches to Quebec in his assault on the city. From 1763 to 1773 DesBarres surveyed and charted the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to New York, which resulted in the publication in 1777 of the Atlantic Neptune, a four-volume atlas "which stands as a landmark in Canadian cartographic achievement" (R.J.Morgan, DCB, VI pp. 196) and is considered to be the most important atlas of North America published in the eighteenth century. He went on to become the first Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton, 1784-87, the founder of Sydney, and the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, 1804-12. He faced considerable opposition to his administration in both colonies and with the home government and in each instance was recalled to England. The present document is dated just one month before his recall from Prince Edward Island in August of 1812. In it DesBarres reprimands the Grand Jury for overstepping the bounds of their authority although he says he is willing to attribute their statements to "good intentions in an infant colony language which under other circumstances might be very differently received.".…

Very good. Slight wear on old fold lines, with reinforcement at some fold intersections. Size 32.75 x 28.25 Inches. A scarce and historically significant 1873 map of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, prepared by Frederic Newton Gisborne and Albert J. Hill. Aside from mapping the island, a feat in itself, it is significant for reflecting the development of fossil fuel industries and railways there. A Closer Look The map displays the entirety of Cape Breton Island, along with a portion of mainland Nova Scotia. The locations of coal mines are shaded in dark grey, while the presence of other natural resources (petroleum, gold, plaster, marble) is indicated as noted in the legend at bottom-right. Railways in operation and proposed are traced throughout. Primarily intended to serve mines, the shorter of these would have been narrow-gauge lines. Insets map the harbors of Sydney and Louisburg, while a general chart maps the coast of the northeastern United States and Canada, and a table of distances at bottom-left logs the distance between Sydney and points in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. On the water, soundings, anchorages, lighthouses, telegraph lines, shipping lines, and shoals are all recorded. A mine just east of Sydney is named Gisborne, after one of the makers of this map, an accomplished telegraph and mining entrepreneur. However, despite ample coal deposits, the mine and others like it were hurt by the economic depression of the 1870s. King Coal The history of Cape Breton Island has been closely tied to the coal industry and to a lesser extent, petroleum. The island's native Mi'kmaq inhabitants utilized coal, so abundant that it was easily found at the surface, as fuel, as did early French settlers, who established a fort and settlement at Louisburg in the early 18th century. After the British gained control of the island in 1763 (at the conclusion of the Seven Years' War), coal mining expanded significantly. The island took on economic and strategic significance, leading to its being the site of two battles during the American Revolution. In addition to the Mi'kmaq and French, a variety of peoples have settled on the island and worked in its underground mines (collieries), including Acadia refugees, Loyalists to the British Crown following the American Revolution, and Scottish Highlanders. Soon after this map's production, at the turn of the 20th century, coal production peaked on the island, but this period also saw bitter labor disputes. Over the course of the 20th century, mining operations decreased, with the last coal mine at Pt. Aconi, north of Sydney, closing in 2001. Publication History and Census This map was prepared by civil engineers Frederic Newton Gisborne and Albert J. Hill and printed by George Desbarats in Montreal in 1873. Maps of Cape Breton Island are notoriously hard to find, and the present map is no exception, only being noted among the holdings of the Bibliothèque de Genève and the Musée de l'Amérique Francophone (managed by the Musée de la Civilisation). References: OCLC 1040328125. Musée de la civilisation SME-Fonds Séminaire de Québec / SME15-La collection de cartes et plans / S-29.…

Very good condition. Some areas o slight discoloration, few small marginal mends with no loss. Measurements are for the printed area if joined; printed area of individual sheets is approximately 19.75 x 27.5 inches each. Size 39.5 x 55 Inches. This superb four sheet map is Captain John Montresor's 1768 map of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island. Montresor produced this map following the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763) and during a period of growing unrest in Britain's American colonies prior to the American Revolution (1775 - 1783). His association with the region leads to French and Indian War; he accompanied British forces to Halifax and took part in the siege of Louisbourg. Following the French defeat, Montresor traveled throughout the region to elicit oaths of allegiance from these formerly French territories. It was during this period that he executed the surveys informing this map. The Scope of the Map The map illustrates all of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and St. John's (now Prince Edward Island.) Part of New Brunswick (up to the Saint John River) is depicted as well. Isle Sable is shown to the southeast. Occupied Nova Scotia Following the French and Indian War, Nova Scotia and the surrounding islands passed from the French to the British, making it imperative to map the new acquisitions in order to better understand and administer them. The areas mapped here were of particular strategic importance for Britain's efforts to maintain a hold on her American colonies. Halifax had been home to the Royal Navy's North American Station since 1759. But a scientific survey of Nova Scotia, as such, did not occur, at least not in the interior of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, whose attractively engraved hills and vegetation are pictorial, and imaginary. The broad generalities of the map seem to be drawn from the 1755 Jefferys A New Map of Nova Scotia and Cape Britain , or a shared source. My Ladys Hole In attempting to determine the sources for a given map, it is often productive to focus on one specific area of it, whose distinctive qualities make it easier to trace from one map to another; the provenance of other, less obvious details then can be more apparent. For example: the southeastern quarter of Montresor's map is dominated by the sand banks and shallows surrounding Sable Island. The banks are shown pictorially, with stippling, and with depth soundings. At the western extreme of the banks, a slightly deeper part of the shallows bears the striking place name 'My Ladys Hole.' No such feature appears on the 1775 DesBarres A Chart of Nova Scotia which is odd: most of DesBarres' charts were based on work overseen by him in Nova Scotia following the French and Indian War. (Indeed, the soundings appearing on the Montresor appear to bear no relation at all to those appearing on the DesBarres.) 'My Ladys Hole' does show itself on the 1755 Jefferys A New Map of Nova Scotia and Cape Britain. The Jefferys, being both a single sheet and showing a broader area than the Montresor, generally lacks the ability to show detail of the four-sheet map. Nevertheless, the Jefferys exhibits more depth soundings than the Montresor - none of which agree between the two maps. The Jefferys does credit his source for this part of his map (a thing Montresor was generally loath to do:) the 1755 map bears the legend here, Nova Scotia fishing banks from Capt. Durel's Chart. This probably refers to Thomas Durell's 1736 A Chart of the Sea Coast of Nova Scotia, Accadia and Cape Breton; we have been able to review a portion of this manuscript, which does appear to inform the Jefferys, but the area pertinent to Isle Sable is not available (the only known example is held in the National Archives, but has not been digitized). No other printed map or chart of these waters that we are aware of features 'My Ladys Hole,' so the candidates are few. We are left with the question: did Montresor draw on Jefferys, or did he draw from the Durell? The.…