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krus_aragon
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No higher resolution version available? If the legend were legible, the company names would make the job a lot easier.
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Sorry, no higher resolution available, I'm asking for a friend and it's from their Facebook page. Thank you for the information 181!
krus_aragon
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Comparing with this map:
I see that your map is missing routes to Joggins and Parrsboro. The Maritime ("Joggins") Railway was open from 1887 to 1961, and the last train to Parrsboro ran in 1962, with the tracks lifted two years later.
You map does, on the other hand, show the lines to Inverness and Upper Musquodoboit. The Inverness line was abandoned in 1986, with the rails lifted in 1989. The line to Muscodoboit didn't open until 1916, and was abandoned in 1983.
On that basis, and tying in with '181's post, I estimate that this map dates from around the 1960s or 1970s. I've found reference to another map issued by the Canadian Freight Association (but of Edmonton) in the mid 1970s, which indicates that this group was producing maps at this time.
I see that your map is missing routes to Joggins and Parrsboro. The Maritime ("Joggins") Railway was open from 1887 to 1961, and the last train to Parrsboro ran in 1962, with the tracks lifted two years later.
You map does, on the other hand, show the lines to Inverness and Upper Musquodoboit. The Inverness line was abandoned in 1986, with the rails lifted in 1989. The line to Muscodoboit didn't open until 1916, and was abandoned in 1983.
On that basis, and tying in with '181's post, I estimate that this map dates from around the 1960s or 1970s. I've found reference to another map issued by the Canadian Freight Association (but of Edmonton) in the mid 1970s, which indicates that this group was producing maps at this time.
krus_aragon -- thanks for the map in post #6 above, showing Nova Scotia's railways presumably at their maximum extent -- quite fascinating. English-speaking Canada certainly has some marvellous place-names (as does Quebec in its different way).
Something of a trivial / personal thing; but I find it rather delightful to discover that Pugwash was at one time the terminus of a short branch from Pugwash Junction -- all lines concerned, long abandoned, I would guess. Two or three decades ago, my brother and his then wife spent a holiday with relatives of hers who lived in Nova Scotia. My brother has no interest in railways; but he had a great yen to visit Pugwash, because of a childhood passion for the TV-cartoon series about the (gentle and inept) pirate hero of that name. He insisted one day on taking a long drive, with wife and child, to Pugwash -- just to say he'd been to the place. He found it a very tiny settlement, almost totally without amenities of any kind; nonetheless returned from the expedition in triumph, delighted to have made it there.
Something of a trivial / personal thing; but I find it rather delightful to discover that Pugwash was at one time the terminus of a short branch from Pugwash Junction -- all lines concerned, long abandoned, I would guess. Two or three decades ago, my brother and his then wife spent a holiday with relatives of hers who lived in Nova Scotia. My brother has no interest in railways; but he had a great yen to visit Pugwash, because of a childhood passion for the TV-cartoon series about the (gentle and inept) pirate hero of that name. He insisted one day on taking a long drive, with wife and child, to Pugwash -- just to say he'd been to the place. He found it a very tiny settlement, almost totally without amenities of any kind; nonetheless returned from the expedition in triumph, delighted to have made it there.
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You're very welcome. I have a superficial knowledge of the railways of Ontario (particularly around Toronto, where I have family) but I was starting from scratch with Atlantic Canada. The website where I found the above map, novascotiarailwayheritage.com, has some other maps of earlier railways, and information and links to the railway museums of the area. It seems to be a good starting point for any further research.
Interesting stuff on the site -- thanks. I'm not very well-informed about the railways of this immediate part of the world; but one element re same which came my way long ago, and which I've always liked -- for the first three-quarters or so of the twentieth century (all has been in change and flux since), Canada tended railway-wise to be a bit of a "monoculture": the great majority of its rail trackage was either Canadian National, or Canadian Pacific. I've tended to treasure the relatively few and relatively small exceptions which there were, to this overall inclination to monotony. In Nova Scotia, there was the oddity by which most of the province's railways were solidly in the Canadian National empire; but there was the outfit called the Dominion Atlantic Railway, from Truro and from near Halifax, to Windsor and thence south-west to Digby and Yarmouth. This was nominally independent; but since the early 20th century, leased and run by the Canadian Pacific -- a bit of a cheeky incursion into solid CNR territory, and rather a "breath of fresh air".
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