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DesBarres made many maps of the Atlantic, mapping the coast of North American from Newfoundland to New York. His survey of the coast of Nova Scotia took approximately ten years due its length and intricacy. DesBarres was exasperated with the work, stating "There is scarcely any known shore so much intersected with Bays, Harbours, and Creeks as ...
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Map #55a also shows George Tanner's original land grant with the notation "Geo Tanner & others". These others may have been Jasper Grover who received a land grant here in 1856, William Myers in 1859 and James Munroe in 1860. Cole Harbour appears on the Des Barres Atlantic Neptune Map (done in the late 1760s) as Durham Inlet.
Before the establishment of rural municipalities in the form of county municipalities and district municipalities in 1879, local government in the historical counties was administered by appointed courts of sessions including justices appointed by the Crown with support from local proprietors selected to grand juries. [2]
Develop Nova Scotia Limited was a Crown corporation of Nova Scotia, Canada responsible for the implementation and administration of strategic infrastructure and property projects. Founded in 1976 as the Waterfront Development Corporation Limited , it was originally tasked with revitalising post-industrial waterfront land in Halifax and Dartmouth .
Innovacorp is a Nova Scotia crown corporation managing an early-stage venture capital fund. The organization was established under Nova Scotia's Innovation Corporation Act, 1994–95, c. 5, s. 1. [1] Its goal is to help early stage Nova Scotia companies commercialize their technologies for export markets.
Among these was a Mr. Cuyler, the former Mayor of Albany, NY, who had forfeited his holdings due to his loyalty to the British Crown and who was eager to settle in the Cape Breton colony. Cape Breton had been separated from the mainland and was declared a colony unto itself in 1784. Jones’ land grant bears the date 19 October 1790.
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