Acadiensis, Volumes 8-9Department of History, University of New Brunswick., 1978 - Atlantic Provinces Journal of the history of the Atlantic region. |
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Whitney had entered the street railway business at an opportune time . The main mode of power was the horse and in 1887 Whitney's consolidated company required almost 10,000 of them . They were slow , inefficient , expensive to buy and ...
Whitney had entered the street railway business at an opportune time . The main mode of power was the horse and in 1887 Whitney's consolidated company required almost 10,000 of them . They were slow , inefficient , expensive to buy and ...
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From the end of the 1860s , he was looking for some greater challenge than local railway lines upon which to exercise his proven abilities . ' He soon found it . During the spring of 1875 , Ketchum published three letters in the Saint ...
From the end of the 1860s , he was looking for some greater challenge than local railway lines upon which to exercise his proven abilities . ' He soon found it . During the spring of 1875 , Ketchum published three letters in the Saint ...
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The ship railway , predicated not upon a stable economy but upon a boom of quite noble proportions , was an euphoric expression of Maritime economic attitudes in the 1880s , 62 and the decline of Maritime shipping in the next decade ...
The ship railway , predicated not upon a stable economy but upon a boom of quite noble proportions , was an euphoric expression of Maritime economic attitudes in the 1880s , 62 and the decline of Maritime shipping in the next decade ...
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