Acadiensis, Volumes 1-3Department of History, University of New Brunswick., 1971 - Atlantic Provinces Journal of the history of the Atlantic region. |
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Page 14
The bête noir was seen as the relatively high freight rates charged by the Intercolonial Railway . The issue came to a head late in 1885 with the closing of the Moncton and the two Halifax sugar refineries . The response of the Halifax ...
The bête noir was seen as the relatively high freight rates charged by the Intercolonial Railway . The issue came to a head late in 1885 with the closing of the Moncton and the two Halifax sugar refineries . The response of the Halifax ...
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... tariff - a politically undesirable answer - , by control of railway rates , or by a regulated industrial output . ... having attained geographic equality with Montreal through a regulated freight rate , the more efficient Maritime ...
... tariff - a politically undesirable answer - , by control of railway rates , or by a regulated industrial output . ... having attained geographic equality with Montreal through a regulated freight rate , the more efficient Maritime ...
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... were 7.000 tons of registered shipping in Cow Bay and coal was being loaded at the rate of 800 tons per day ! ... and the fact that the American railways had not then gone very far in granting commodity rates on low grade freights .
... were 7.000 tons of registered shipping in Cow Bay and coal was being loaded at the rate of 800 tons per day ! ... and the fact that the American railways had not then gone very far in granting commodity rates on low grade freights .
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