Nova Scotia Postal History / Jerusalem Warehouse / Morse’s Teas - 26 April 1895 - DARTMOUTH, (Halifax County), N.S. (cds cancel / postmark) to River Dennis (Inverness County), Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (front)

Canada Post Card sent to - J.A. MacAulay / River Dennis / Cape Breton

Link to - "The Town that became a Boat - paquebot.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/River-Dennis.pdf
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DARTMOUTH, a post town and busy manufacturing centre in Halifax County, Nova Scotia, on the Chebucto River, connected by ferry with Halifax city, and a station (the terminal on the east side of Halifax harbor) on the Dartmouth branch on the I.C.R., 12 miles south of Windsor Jct. It has 6 churches, of the various denominations, about 70 stores, 4 hotels, 2 bank agencies (Nova Scotia, and Union of Halifax), a number of schools, 1 large rope works employing about 300 hands, 1 skate factory, 1 sugar refinery, 1 cocoa and chocolate works, 1 rolling mill, 3 iron foundries, 1 boiler works, 1 machine and forge factory, 1 steel ship repairing yards, 2 corn mills, 1 brewery, besides an organ factory, molasses and soap manufactories, several saw mills, and a marine railway works, together with post, telephone, telegraph and express offices. It has an active Board of Trade. Pop. 5,000 ...from Lovell’s 1906 Canada Gazetteer.

Dartmouth is located on the east side of Halifax Harbour. A Post Office building opened - 1 May 1894.

The Postal Way Office at Dartmouth opened in 1845 and closed c. 1850. It re-opened - 29 April 1852 and became a Post Office - 1 October 1870.

/ DARTMOUTH / AP 26 / 95 / N.S. / - cds cancel - this cds hammer was proofed - 27 January 1890 - (#3248).

Taken on: November 24, 2018

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