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Various activities of the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company required approvals from government. This page shows approvals received in 1912.
Since Confederation construction of infrastructure in tidal waters requires approval of the Dominion of Canada.
In 1912, the DAR requested approval for an expansion of the Evangeline Wharf (Yarmouth Wharf) including a larger wharf, a larger freight shed, and a new railway approach trestle and track. The approval was granted in a Federal Order in Council number 1280 of the year 1912. (Orders in Council are numbered beginning from number 1 each calendar year.)
Below is the text of a the approval signed by the Prime Minister and the Governor General and including text recitals of the water-lot concerned and the details of the location of the railway trestle and track. Of interest is the information that the Evangeline Wharf was located north of Lovitt Street. Also included is a scan of the plan submitted for approval.
(Transcribed from a type-written original)
P.C.1260
On a Memorandum dated 14th May, 1912, from the
Minister of Public Works, submitting that the Dominion
Atlantic Railway Company have applied, under section 233
of the Railway Act, for approval of descriptions of site
and plan of their proposed wharf extension, with pile
trestle approach thereto, at Yarmouth, N.S.
The Minister states that the District Engineer
of the Department of Public Works has reported that there
is no objection to the approval of the application in so
far as the interests of navigation are concerned, and
in this report the Chief Engineer has concurred.
The Minister, therefore, recommends that authority be granted. for the approval of the attached
descriptions of site and plan of the wharf extension,
with pile trestle approach there to, which the Dominion
Atlantic Railway Company propose to construct at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
The Committee submit the same for approval.
Signed by R.S. Borden [Prime Minister at the time]
Marked Approved with the signature of the Governor General, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and dated May 10th, 1912
The text of the "description of site":
PC1260 (a)
Description of site of proposed extension to
Dominion Atlantic Railway Company's Wharf at Yarmouth in the Town
of Yarmouth, County or Yarmouth, Province or Nova. Scotia, being
a portion of the water lot West of Water Street and North of Lovett
Street produced, and being described as follows:-
Commencing at the North East corner of the Dominion
Atlantic Railway Company's Wharf, thence Northerly on a course
being the production of the Easterly limit of said wharf, two
hundred and eighteen feet more or less to the Northerly limit of
said Railway Company's property, thence Westerly along said Northerly limit sixty-two feet, thence Southerly in a right line
five hundred and eighteen feet more or less to a point on the
Southerly limit of said wharf produced, said point being distant
thirty-six feet Westerly from the South West corner of said Wharf,
and said distance being measured along said production of said
Southerly limit, thence Easterly, along the last mentioned production, thirty
six feet to said South West corner. thence Northerly along the Westerly limit of said
Wharf two hundred and ninety-eight feet to the North West corner
of said Wharf, thence Easterly along the Northerly limit of said
Wharf forty feet to the point of commencement. This site containing an area or twenty-three thousand seven hundred and forty
square feet more or less.
[Various rubber stamps:]
DOMINION ATLANTIC RAILWAY
OFFICE OF
MAR 18 1912
RESIDENT ENGINEER
KENTVILLE, N.S.
Dominion Atlantic Railway
(Signed by P. Gifkins)
General Manager
(signed by M.G. Fullington (?) )
Resident Engineer
The text of the "description of site for proposed pile trestle and track":
P.C.1260 (b)
Description of site for proposed Pile Trestle and
Track for the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company's Wharf at Yarmouth
in the Town or Yarmouth in the County of Yarmouth and Province of
Nova Scotia - a railway track and trestle leading from a point
on the existing railway track on Water Street to the Southerly
limit of the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company's Wharf, the
centre line of said track being described as follows:-
Commencing at a point on the centre line of the Dominion
Atlantic Railway Company‘s track on Water Street, said point being
distant two hundred and sixty feet Northerly from the intersection
of said track and the Northerly limit produced of the Dominion
Atlantic Railway Company's property, and said distance being
measured along the centre line of said track, thence South
Westerly on a curve to the right of three hundred and eighty-
three point one feet radius, two hundred and sixty-five feet to
a point in the said Northerly limit of said Railway property,
thence still South Westerly on a curve to the left of three hundred and eighty-three point one feet radius, two hundred and twenty
feet, thence Southerly parallel to and distant fifty-six feet
Easterly from the Westerly limit of the Dominion Atlantic Railway's
Wharf as constructed two hundred and ninety-five feet to the
southerly limit of said Wharf
[Various rubber stamps:]
DOMINION ATLANTIC RAILWAY
OFFICE OF
MAR 18 1912
RESIDENT ENGINEER
KENTVILLE, N.S.
Dominion Atlantic Railway
(Signed by P. Gifkins)
General Manager
(signed by M.G. Fullington (?) )
Resident Engineer.
Gallery
- PC 1280 1912.jpg
Scan of page one of the PC Memo.
External Links
Gallery
- PC 1880 1908.jpg
Scan of page one of the PC Memo.
External Links
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=ordincou&id=144304&lang=eng
