{"chapterKey":"canada-b-c/sydney-nova-scotia","title":"Sydney, Nova Scotia","regionSlug":"canada-b-c","status":"published","photos":[{"sha":"531434c838ae35034bf660a0a323e8b1b9ee5ae95afa34957e05d73971c25b3c","caption":"Nova Scotia is not quite as big as New Brunswick, but it's much bigger than Prince Edward Island.  It measures about 375 miles top to bottom.  The top fifth of the province is Cape Breton Island, which is separated from the mainland by the narrow Strait of Canso.  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The building is still in place.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/369d6389e0024a4825887ae6147fcf05","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/369d6389e0024a4825887ae6147fcf05","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/369d6389e0024a4825887ae6147fcf05","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/369d6389e0024a4825887ae6147fcf05","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/369d6389e0024a4825887ae6147fcf05","altText":"Just a minute's walk to the south there a pier from the 1920s.  The building is still in place."},{"sha":"f5c3ee1f3cfc6335033c935e2d95b00ed7a9c9f5066550dc08ce4e8b514c1d17","caption":"This was where most immigrants to Canada first touched their new country.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f5c3ee1f3cfc6335033c935e2d95b00e","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f5c3ee1f3cfc6335033c935e2d95b00e","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f5c3ee1f3cfc6335033c935e2d95b00e","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f5c3ee1f3cfc6335033c935e2d95b00e","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f5c3ee1f3cfc6335033c935e2d95b00e","altText":"This was where most immigrants to Canada first touched their new country."},{"sha":"b762f818c3620350b97c8ecbfb31877517d41f4b73a23aee26276e0c02d870ed","caption":"The pictures are from the walls of the museum now occupying that same building.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b762f818c3620350b97c8ecbfb318775","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b762f818c3620350b97c8ecbfb318775","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b762f818c3620350b97c8ecbfb318775","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b762f818c3620350b97c8ecbfb318775","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b762f818c3620350b97c8ecbfb318775","altText":"The pictures are from the walls of the museum now occupying that same building."},{"sha":"98630d1b30d91e09c2a1533404646e2506ff3f8737e04db05ee71f6ed04d1cc6","caption":"The \"new arrivals\" must have been given a few minutes to freshen up for the camera.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/98630d1b30d91e09c2a1533404646e25","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/98630d1b30d91e09c2a1533404646e25","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/98630d1b30d91e09c2a1533404646e25","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/98630d1b30d91e09c2a1533404646e25","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/98630d1b30d91e09c2a1533404646e25","altText":"The \"new arrivals\" must have been given a few minutes to freshen up for the camera."},{"sha":"2d9bd7860da71c7ddd0bd78e49b4fe19625c56e8e6e21b6f8918b360a547b1e9","caption":"The bridge linked the immigration building, on the right, to the railroad station on the left.  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That's a theme in Nova Scotia, where the only town that's grown since World War II has been Halifax and its suburbs.\n\n[https://www.ebay.com/itm/206230196566](https://www.ebay.com/itm/206230196566)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/020e8004e890bef386d9143b080ae4b4","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/020e8004e890bef386d9143b080ae4b4","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/020e8004e890bef386d9143b080ae4b4","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/020e8004e890bef386d9143b080ae4b4","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/020e8004e890bef386d9143b080ae4b4","altText":"We're 100 miles up the track at Truro, population about 12,000 people today, same as in 1950.  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It would be interesting to chart passenger numbers, but I'm waiting for AI to tell me.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f3a0225096a274dbf13d53a7930f7304","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f3a0225096a274dbf13d53a7930f7304","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f3a0225096a274dbf13d53a7930f7304","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f3a0225096a274dbf13d53a7930f7304","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f3a0225096a274dbf13d53a7930f7304","altText":"The train station's gone, replaced by the Truro Centre Shopping Mall.  Trains \"The Ocean\" to pass through, three times a week each way.  Tha"},{"sha":"0e377c4a192326383f6130050b4c8be20efd828ea232cdd8a93b62d9c15ff532","caption":"Across the street, you can rent an apartment at the Victoria Suites.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0e377c4a192326383f6130050b4c8be2","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0e377c4a192326383f6130050b4c8be2","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0e377c4a192326383f6130050b4c8be2","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0e377c4a192326383f6130050b4c8be2","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0e377c4a192326383f6130050b4c8be2","altText":"Across the street, you can rent an apartment at the Victoria Suites."},{"sha":"70ad7778c4c20ac530ef71d8c1498bce4f16cbe158bec52ba560cccabf3c1528","caption":"But there's lots of less functional, more ostentatious stuff like the public library, which was the Truro Normal College between 1877 and 1961.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/70ad7778c4c20ac530ef71d8c1498bce","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/70ad7778c4c20ac530ef71d8c1498bce","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/70ad7778c4c20ac530ef71d8c1498bce","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/70ad7778c4c20ac530ef71d8c1498bce","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/70ad7778c4c20ac530ef71d8c1498bce","altText":"But there's lots of less functional, more ostentatious stuff like the public library, which was the Truro Normal College between 1877 and 19"},{"sha":"c436bf9a858e4da424674e3a10122760e169e1a6fc51695970a6ffaee6ba79bb","caption":"There are lots of well-kept old wooden houses, too.  They've been surveyed in the city's walking tour: [https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/30b7efc347614ccf8a9876bd644b0ba8](https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/30b7efc347614ccf8a9876bd644b0ba8)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/c436bf9a858e4da424674e3a10122760","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/c436bf9a858e4da424674e3a10122760","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/c436bf9a858e4da424674e3a10122760","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/c436bf9a858e4da424674e3a10122760","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/c436bf9a858e4da424674e3a10122760","altText":"There are lots of well-kept old wooden houses, too.  They've been surveyed in the city's walking tour: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/"},{"sha":"9cc1ada2a60a0c949e844a52a638d73be33974b71fdb0df70682a65a09e32815","caption":"Nice but tough to sell, not only because the town isn't growing but because the median age in Nova Scotia is over 46.  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We'll look downtown, then head to Eureka (bottom of the map) and then go up top to Trenton.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/be2398e7165536eb440fd19d4f994041","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/be2398e7165536eb440fd19d4f994041","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/be2398e7165536eb440fd19d4f994041","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/be2398e7165536eb440fd19d4f994041","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/be2398e7165536eb440fd19d4f994041","altText":"Another 40 miles to New Glasgow.  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Here's Charles Dudley Warner, an editor at Harpers and a co-author with Mark Twain.  \"The Bras d'Or is the most beautiful salt-water lake I have ever seen.... We saw the moon rise ... and flood with light the islands and headlands of the beautiful bay.  Anchored at some distance from the shore was a slender coasting vessel.\n(*Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing*, 1874, excerpted in *Impressions of Cape Breton*, ed. by Brian Tennyson, 1986, pp. 163-182.)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/1cc8889e0e0b933510772f7f50e258b1","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/1cc8889e0e0b933510772f7f50e258b1","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/1cc8889e0e0b933510772f7f50e258b1","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/1cc8889e0e0b933510772f7f50e258b1","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/1cc8889e0e0b933510772f7f50e258b1","altText":"It's a famous place, today mostly because Alexander Graham Bell made it his summer home and then his retirement home, but its fame goes back"},{"sha":"1280px-Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg","caption":"Bell's cottage, still in his family and occasionally in the news.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg/1280px-Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg","srcSmall":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg/1280px-Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg","srcMedium":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg/1280px-Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg","srcLarge":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg/1280px-Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg","srcOriginal":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg/1280px-Beinn_Bhreagh%2C_Alexander_Graham_Bell%27s_residence%2C_Cape_Breton%2C_NS%2C_1915.jpg","altText":"Bell's cottage, still in his family and occasionally in the news."},{"sha":"map.jpg","caption":"Baddeck gets most of its road traffic from visitors driving the 180-mile Cabot Trail, opened to automobiles in 1932 but not fully paved until about 1960.  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This map, from 1873, refers only to the two counties sharing the area (Inverness and Victoria).  Beyond that, it says only that this is an \"Unexplored Region, High Table Land, 1000 Feet Elevation, Abounding in Moose and Carriboo Deer.\"  I don't know when the name Cape Breton Highlands was first used, but it became solidly entrenched with the designation in 1936 of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.  No messing with it now.  The key person here was probably Angus L. MacDonald, the very long serving premier of the province.  And let us not forget Will R. 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This map, from 1873, refers only to the two counties sharing the area I"},{"sha":"5ee8b5d34172641f0bd99ebad57ac2f2dfe3fd1de1141fd0f2b4c66f155cc466","caption":"Anyway, Baddeck's a nice place, and Warner's \"slender coasting vessel\" is still there.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/5ee8b5d34172641f0bd99ebad57ac2f2","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/5ee8b5d34172641f0bd99ebad57ac2f2","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/5ee8b5d34172641f0bd99ebad57ac2f2","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/5ee8b5d34172641f0bd99ebad57ac2f2","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/5ee8b5d34172641f0bd99ebad57ac2f2","altText":"Anyway, Baddeck's a nice place, and Warner's \"slender coasting vessel\" is still there."},{"sha":"3ef5d72a3e755a9ef04970578346775510f54c0223620ab11424f5842f43e767","caption":"Waterfront homes.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3ef5d72a3e755a9ef049705783467755","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3ef5d72a3e755a9ef049705783467755","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3ef5d72a3e755a9ef049705783467755","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3ef5d72a3e755a9ef049705783467755","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3ef5d72a3e755a9ef049705783467755","altText":"Waterfront homes."},{"sha":"6069be36ab409d16560a6ad6f2930f1ac20ed23434520edabcafcd33f388ef4f","caption":"Warner never saw the likes of these.  \"Baddeck was  a clean-looking village of white wooden houses, of perhaps seven or eight hundred inhabitants, that stretched along the bay for a mile or more, straggling off into farm-houses at each end... 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I don't know, I don't know what is to become of it... full of murders and robberies and corruption.\"","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/6069be36ab409d16560a6ad6f2930f1a","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/6069be36ab409d16560a6ad6f2930f1a","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/6069be36ab409d16560a6ad6f2930f1a","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/6069be36ab409d16560a6ad6f2930f1a","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/6069be36ab409d16560a6ad6f2930f1a","altText":"Warner never saw the likes of these.  \"Baddeck was  a clean-looking village of white wooden houses, of perhaps seven or eight hundred inhabi"},{"sha":"fd9b4a17668ace7808bbf81556097a401c71a5d063db699b0110aba04dbf0863","caption":"\"The next morning the semi-weekly steamboat from Sydney came into the bay, and drew all the male inhabitants of Baddeck down to the wharf...\"  There's no steamboat to catch in 2026, so we'll drive another 50 miles to Sydney.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fd9b4a17668ace7808bbf81556097a40","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fd9b4a17668ace7808bbf81556097a40","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fd9b4a17668ace7808bbf81556097a40","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fd9b4a17668ace7808bbf81556097a40","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fd9b4a17668ace7808bbf81556097a40","altText":"\"The next morning the semi-weekly steamboat from Sydney came into the bay, and drew all the male inhabitants of Baddeck down to the wharf..."},{"sha":"7c03b0ae28d55305a38cb89dd11e781607653d90d89d782c5ea58954005b364a","caption":"Here it is, on the right (forget Halifax, on the left), as it was in 1795.  It had been established in 1785 as the capital of the colony of Cape Breton Island, a status that continued until 1820, when the island was joined to the mainland.  The island's capital then became Halifax.  Sydney remained a city on its own until 1995 when it was joined with many surrounding town to form the Cape Breton Regional Municality.\n\nR. 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We'll get around to looking at a bunch of the district's smaller towns.\n\n[https://capebretonspectator.com/2018/11/07/civic-improvement-cbrm-ideas/](https://capebretonspectator.com/2018/11/07/civic-improvement-cbrm-ideas/)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://capebretonspectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CBRM.elector.map_.big_.png","srcSmall":"https://capebretonspectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CBRM.elector.map_.big_.png","srcMedium":"https://capebretonspectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CBRM.elector.map_.big_.png","srcLarge":"https://capebretonspectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CBRM.elector.map_.big_.png","srcOriginal":"https://capebretonspectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CBRM.elector.map_.big_.png","altText":"Sydney today has about 30,000 people, while the district has about 100,000.  We'll get around to looking at a bunch of the district's smalle"},{"sha":"12704eead96bd54ba4bf56c47f219cd987fc9e9b01a3948af37743d8a0cb0154","caption":"The area of the 1795 map today, still military at the north end (except for some oil-storage tanks) but much more built up.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/12704eead96bd54ba4bf56c47f219cd9","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/12704eead96bd54ba4bf56c47f219cd9","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/12704eead96bd54ba4bf56c47f219cd9","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/12704eead96bd54ba4bf56c47f219cd9","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/12704eead96bd54ba4bf56c47f219cd9","altText":"The area of the 1795 map today, still military at the north end except for some oil-storage tanks but much more built up."},{"sha":"bfc60328843c62f4775e8859ca4fa6ed8d0367f63f9a17c40c43d0fff4685f67","caption":"Not much is left from that time, but here's St. George's Anglican Church, from 1785, the year of the town's founding.  Alas, it's locked except when a cruiseship is in port.  About 100 visit annually.  I was here in June for a week and saw none.  I'm not complaining.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bfc60328843c62f4775e8859ca4fa6ed","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bfc60328843c62f4775e8859ca4fa6ed","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bfc60328843c62f4775e8859ca4fa6ed","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bfc60328843c62f4775e8859ca4fa6ed","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bfc60328843c62f4775e8859ca4fa6ed","altText":"Not much is left from that time, but here's St. George's Anglican Church, from 1785, the year of the town's founding.  Alas, it's locked exc"},{"sha":"379bb7f1141dd6c6e939a72792a6177ed01ef933bd1006f6cc1fbff30fcfd9b7","caption":"The graveyard's accessible: \"...who departed this life on the 31st of October, 1850, aged 20 years, the beloved wife of J.T. Robinson... and their daughter.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/379bb7f1141dd6c6e939a72792a6177e","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/379bb7f1141dd6c6e939a72792a6177e","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/379bb7f1141dd6c6e939a72792a6177e","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/379bb7f1141dd6c6e939a72792a6177e","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/379bb7f1141dd6c6e939a72792a6177e","altText":"The graveyard's accessible: \"...who departed this life on the 31st of October, 1850, aged 20 years, the beloved wife of J.T. 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There's been a lot of development, though very few if any of these buildings or businesses survive.\n\n[https://archives.novascotia.ca/maps/archives/?ID=958](https://archives.novascotia.ca/maps/archives/?ID=958)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/229f867f48732b5637a53a3e1dbbf737","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/229f867f48732b5637a53a3e1dbbf737","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/229f867f48732b5637a53a3e1dbbf737","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/229f867f48732b5637a53a3e1dbbf737","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/229f867f48732b5637a53a3e1dbbf737","altText":"Fast forward to 1877. 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See that large block at the corner of Dorchester and Esplanade?\n\nhttps://archives.novascotia"},{"sha":"9c07f630671c3509ed9ee65f1af206f26397c24b90dc37d8376dae1a64126d1f","caption":"The Sydney Hotel opened in 1894 with hot and cold running water in the guestrooms, along with electric lighting.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHDnfC4cNMw&t=323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHDnfC4cNMw&t=323s)  (This image, and many others coming up, come from a remarkable YouTube channel, Paulspictureplace2663.)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/9c07f630671c3509ed9ee65f1af206f2","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/9c07f630671c3509ed9ee65f1af206f2","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/9c07f630671c3509ed9ee65f1af206f2","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/9c07f630671c3509ed9ee65f1af206f2","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/9c07f630671c3509ed9ee65f1af206f2","altText":"The Sydney Hotel opened in 1894 with hot and cold running water in the guestrooms, along with electric lighting.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/wa"},{"sha":"de3b0fb4adb7066e95b3dc290c28630dc33668f508e7f2542a99129796899736","caption":"Here it is with a neighbor.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/de3b0fb4adb7066e95b3dc290c28630d","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/de3b0fb4adb7066e95b3dc290c28630d","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/de3b0fb4adb7066e95b3dc290c28630d","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/de3b0fb4adb7066e95b3dc290c28630d","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/de3b0fb4adb7066e95b3dc290c28630d","altText":"Here it is with a neighbor."},{"sha":"aa74e2718742d6839cc529f63b561e9d3aca7ca221f5061bd0f5e935f96aaa68","caption":"\"Damn, we've lost our water view.\"  Consolation: the hotel burned down in 1919.  No more guest complaints.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/aa74e2718742d6839cc529f63b561e9d","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/aa74e2718742d6839cc529f63b561e9d","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/aa74e2718742d6839cc529f63b561e9d","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/aa74e2718742d6839cc529f63b561e9d","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/aa74e2718742d6839cc529f63b561e9d","altText":"\"Damn, we've lost our water view.\"  Consolation: the hotel burned down in 1919.  No more guest complaints."},{"sha":"509426592_10163748651303223_7628780470101467017_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1200x825&ctp=s843x403&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=yT3p-9DxwcgQ7kNvwE42SiN&_nc_oc=Adrf2qYSPgCwChktAcaPJvUL6QZkP9esEpUDC8QrCmVjiifPZxARK8F5IseEKLk_BZ0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.ftul2-1.fna&_nc_gid=Ppsy3awWP3MQDQsbaz6B-A&_nc_ss=7b289&oh=00_Af8OnKE8vyafr9nwY9fePxOZw6Cg_CrtyofNCxq8RzE5qg&oe=6A4233BF","caption":"This was the fanciest private house in town.  It was called Moxham Castle after its owner Arthur J. Moxham.  I doubt that people called it the castle in his presence.\n\n[https://www.facebook.com/groups/mansionsofthegildedage/posts/5790239894330337/  ](https://www.facebook.com/groups/mansionsofthegildedage/posts/5790239894330337/)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://scontent.ftul2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/509426592_10163748651303223_7628780470101467017_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1200x825&ctp=s843x403&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=yT3p-9DxwcgQ7kNvwE42SiN&_nc_oc=Adrf2qYSPgCwChktAcaPJvUL6QZkP9esEpUDC8QrCmVjiifPZxARK8F5IseEKLk_BZ0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.ftul2-1.fna&_nc_gid=Ppsy3awWP3MQDQsbaz6B-A&_nc_ss=7b289&oh=00_Af8OnKE8vyafr9nwY9fePxOZw6Cg_CrtyofNCxq8RzE5qg&oe=6A4233BF","srcSmall":"https://scontent.ftul2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/509426592_10163748651303223_7628780470101467017_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1200x825&ctp=s843x403&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=yT3p-9DxwcgQ7kNvwE42SiN&_nc_oc=Adrf2qYSPgCwChktAcaPJvUL6QZkP9esEpUDC8QrCmVjiifPZxARK8F5IseEKLk_BZ0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.ftul2-1.fna&_nc_gid=Ppsy3awWP3MQDQsbaz6B-A&_nc_ss=7b289&oh=00_Af8OnKE8vyafr9nwY9fePxOZw6Cg_CrtyofNCxq8RzE5qg&oe=6A4233BF","srcMedium":"https://scontent.ftul2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/509426592_10163748651303223_7628780470101467017_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1200x825&ctp=s843x403&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=yT3p-9DxwcgQ7kNvwE42SiN&_nc_oc=Adrf2qYSPgCwChktAcaPJvUL6QZkP9esEpUDC8QrCmVjiifPZxARK8F5IseEKLk_BZ0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.ftul2-1.fna&_nc_gid=Ppsy3awWP3MQDQsbaz6B-A&_nc_ss=7b289&oh=00_Af8OnKE8vyafr9nwY9fePxOZw6Cg_CrtyofNCxq8RzE5qg&oe=6A4233BF","srcLarge":"https://scontent.ftul2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/509426592_10163748651303223_7628780470101467017_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1200x825&ctp=s843x403&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=yT3p-9DxwcgQ7kNvwE42SiN&_nc_oc=Adrf2qYSPgCwChktAcaPJvUL6QZkP9esEpUDC8QrCmVjiifPZxARK8F5IseEKLk_BZ0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.ftul2-1.fna&_nc_gid=Ppsy3awWP3MQDQsbaz6B-A&_nc_ss=7b289&oh=00_Af8OnKE8vyafr9nwY9fePxOZw6Cg_CrtyofNCxq8RzE5qg&oe=6A4233BF","srcOriginal":"https://scontent.ftul2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/509426592_10163748651303223_7628780470101467017_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1200x825&ctp=s843x403&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=yT3p-9DxwcgQ7kNvwE42SiN&_nc_oc=Adrf2qYSPgCwChktAcaPJvUL6QZkP9esEpUDC8QrCmVjiifPZxARK8F5IseEKLk_BZ0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.ftul2-1.fna&_nc_gid=Ppsy3awWP3MQDQsbaz6B-A&_nc_ss=7b289&oh=00_Af8OnKE8vyafr9nwY9fePxOZw6Cg_CrtyofNCxq8RzE5qg&oe=6A4233BF","altText":"This was the fanciest private house in town.  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The son's wife Ellen, died in childbirth two days later.  \"By family accounts, the deaths ... drained the spirit from Arthur and Helen Moxham.\" They moved back to the U.S.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://sites.pitt.edu/~zander/Research%20archive/Johnson%20Company/Arthur%20Moxham%20Family,%20circa%201901.jpg","srcSmall":"https://sites.pitt.edu/~zander/Research%20archive/Johnson%20Company/Arthur%20Moxham%20Family,%20circa%201901.jpg","srcMedium":"https://sites.pitt.edu/~zander/Research%20archive/Johnson%20Company/Arthur%20Moxham%20Family,%20circa%201901.jpg","srcLarge":"https://sites.pitt.edu/~zander/Research%20archive/Johnson%20Company/Arthur%20Moxham%20Family,%20circa%201901.jpg","srcOriginal":"https://sites.pitt.edu/~zander/Research%20archive/Johnson%20Company/Arthur%20Moxham%20Family,%20circa%201901.jpg","altText":"Here's the family.  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It did have quite the staircase.\n\n[https://beatoninstitute.com/moxhams-castle-hospital-2](https://beatoninstitute.com/moxhams-castle-hospital-2)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/72815a4c5fde8da929eabec9f9dce01f","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/72815a4c5fde8da929eabec9f9dce01f","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/72815a4c5fde8da929eabec9f9dce01f","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/72815a4c5fde8da929eabec9f9dce01f","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/72815a4c5fde8da929eabec9f9dce01f","altText":"In World War I, the home became a military hospital.  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The only survivor was this gatehouse.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0747e2420bb4d60669ec38e1ba4b81fc","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0747e2420bb4d60669ec38e1ba4b81fc","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0747e2420bb4d60669ec38e1ba4b81fc","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0747e2420bb4d60669ec38e1ba4b81fc","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0747e2420bb4d60669ec38e1ba4b81fc","altText":"The house, abandoned, burned in 1966.  The only survivor was this gatehouse."},{"sha":"bd221d396b7bb2947eff65b650754b38f952d65a722ba4c5a195c7d75abf7f86","caption":"The property's stone wall hugs it tight.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bd221d396b7bb2947eff65b650754b38","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bd221d396b7bb2947eff65b650754b38","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bd221d396b7bb2947eff65b650754b38","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bd221d396b7bb2947eff65b650754b38","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/bd221d396b7bb2947eff65b650754b38","altText":"The property's stone wall hugs it tight."},{"sha":"3719c59dea7f8d44719a50e0191bb16729cb20c8f0a3902b7f2549be990f718b","caption":"Sydney Harbor is less than 100 yards behind the gatehouse.  The intervening space is now occupied by Cabot House, an apartment building confirming the truth of Arthur C Clarke's prediction that the future will be \"fantastic.\"","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3719c59dea7f8d44719a50e0191bb167","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3719c59dea7f8d44719a50e0191bb167","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3719c59dea7f8d44719a50e0191bb167","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3719c59dea7f8d44719a50e0191bb167","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/3719c59dea7f8d44719a50e0191bb167","altText":"Sydney Harbor is less than 100 yards behind the gatehouse.  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Half a dozen substantial brick buildings in sight."},{"sha":"b57f7f30e053c8b91b80e6f3b60cd9b1cfb7f9d31410d58dcd2245f35e4bf5e2","caption":"Here's the same spot (intersection of Dorchester and Pitt) today.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b57f7f30e053c8b91b80e6f3b60cd9b1","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b57f7f30e053c8b91b80e6f3b60cd9b1","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b57f7f30e053c8b91b80e6f3b60cd9b1","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b57f7f30e053c8b91b80e6f3b60cd9b1","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/b57f7f30e053c8b91b80e6f3b60cd9b1","altText":"Here's the same spot intersection of Dorchester and Pitt today."},{"sha":"f35f63f188c7bdd07f2ef1a461367cb6b5f2017a2a840b305a59e56deaf084b5","caption":"It would be nice if we could how we got from there to here, but here at least is a transition shot, before demolitions but after the introduction of electric signs and automobiles.  The streetcar tracks are there, but the catenary line is gone.  No surprise: the streetcars had been run by the city, which went into receivership in 1931.  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It stayed in business here until 2016, which is kind of amazing.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/e5fb6a6b6dd3f919adae88c953737043","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/e5fb6a6b6dd3f919adae88c953737043","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/e5fb6a6b6dd3f919adae88c953737043","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/e5fb6a6b6dd3f919adae88c953737043","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/e5fb6a6b6dd3f919adae88c953737043","altText":"Only one monument remains of Sydney at its peak:  it's the Bank of Montreal building from 1901.  It stayed in business here until 2016, whic"},{"sha":"375c06161a63487d71427d0713179aa01bf8a4c5ac3890c3d97c6b7caeeab3c5","caption":"Even more amazing, the bank donated the building to the Old Sydney Society, which has made it a museum.  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There are three room downstairs (kitchen, living room, dining) and three bedrooms upstairs, plus the building's one bathroom.  (The stairs to the basement are under the stairs to the bedroom).  I imagine domestic pandemonium with children roaring up and down those stairs three or four at a time.  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It began as DISCO, became BESCO, then DOSCO and SYSCO before closing in 2000.  I hate to spell out those names, but I'll help a bit: Dominion Iron and Steel, British Empire Stell, (1901-2000), Dominion Stell, and Sydney Steel.  The name changes hint at the company's problems, which became acute after World War I.  Earlier on, the sky was the limit.  Here is an excited reporter for *The Montreal Star* writing in 1899 that \"since the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway no enterprise has excited such general interest in Canada as the organization of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company....  The immense amount of money that is being expended in the construction of the works, and the fact that the capital for the undertaking is being furnished by a combination of the wealthiest men in Canada and the United States, men who have never been known to fail in anything that they have undertaken, has excited widespread curiosity.'\" (The reporter was Watson Griffin, and a half-dozen of his pieces on the mill were collected in a pamphlet called *At the Front Door of Canada: The Great Works of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company...  The most Favourable Situation in the World for an Iron Industry, *Montreal, 1899*.)*","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0697b9353a166ce27665b1e2dcab1dad","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0697b9353a166ce27665b1e2dcab1dad","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0697b9353a166ce27665b1e2dcab1dad","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0697b9353a166ce27665b1e2dcab1dad","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0697b9353a166ce27665b1e2dcab1dad","altText":"You'll notice that I havene't said anything about the city's economic engine, which from 1901 until 2000 was that steel mill in the distance"},{"sha":"arthur%20j%20moxham%201903.jpg","caption":"Here's the first mill manager.  You know him already, Arthur Moxham of Moxham Castle.  He took a steam launch to work every day.\n\n[https://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/lsry_page_two.html](https://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/lsry_page_two.html)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/lse/lsry/images/arthur%20j%20moxham%201903.jpg","srcSmall":"https://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/lse/lsry/images/arthur%20j%20moxham%201903.jpg","srcMedium":"https://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/lse/lsry/images/arthur%20j%20moxham%201903.jpg","srcLarge":"https://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/lse/lsry/images/arthur%20j%20moxham%201903.jpg","srcOriginal":"https://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/lse/lsry/images/arthur%20j%20moxham%201903.jpg","altText":"Here's the first mill manager.  You know him already, Arthur Moxham of Moxham Castle.  He took a steam launch to work every day.\n\nhttps://ww"},{"sha":"Henry_Melville_Whitney.jpg","caption":"And here's the money guy behind the whole thing.  He was from Boston, where his family owned the Metropolitan Steamship Company, running between Boston and New York City.  He (as we say) dabbled in real estate and owned the West End Street Railway Company.  The two often fit together very nicely.\n\nA recent historian, not quite so over-the-top as Watson Griffin, admits that \"no individual has had more of a lasting impact on industrial Cape Breton than Henry Melville Whitney.\" (Don Macgillivray, \"Henry Melville Whitney Comes to Cape Breton: The Saga of a Gilded Age Entrepreneur,\" *Acadiensis*, 9: 1, 1979, p. 44.\n\nThe photo, with its Trumpyish caption, comes from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Successful_American/NmZMAAAAYAAJ?q=whitney+henry&gbpv=1#f=false](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Successful_American/NmZMAAAAYAAJ?q=whitney+henry&gbpv=1#f=false)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Henry_Melville_Whitney.jpg","srcSmall":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Henry_Melville_Whitney.jpg","srcMedium":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Henry_Melville_Whitney.jpg","srcLarge":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Henry_Melville_Whitney.jpg","srcOriginal":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Henry_Melville_Whitney.jpg","altText":"And here's the money guy behind the whole thing.  He was from Boston, where his family owned the Metropolitan Steamship Company, running bet"},{"sha":"w600.13467.jpg","caption":"Still, it was only a couple of years before Whitney moved on.   He sold his interest in 1902 to James Ross of the Canadian Northern Railroad, and he in turn sold out in the next year to this gentleman, James Henry Plummer, who controlled the mill until 1913 but except in summer stayed home in Toronto.  Who did he hire to actually run the place?  He needed somebody who knew Nova Scotia and who knew steel, and so he turned to Graham Fraser, who was getting sick of financial management of his steel back down in New Glasgow.  You remember him: he was the guy who would shortly retire and piddle with boats.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://www.biographi.ca/bioimages/w600.13467.jpg","srcSmall":"https://www.biographi.ca/bioimages/w600.13467.jpg","srcMedium":"https://www.biographi.ca/bioimages/w600.13467.jpg","srcLarge":"https://www.biographi.ca/bioimages/w600.13467.jpg","srcOriginal":"https://www.biographi.ca/bioimages/w600.13467.jpg","altText":"Still, it was only a couple of years before Whitney moved on.   He sold his interest in 1902 to James Ross of the Canadian Northern Railroad"},{"sha":"d6f9c338fe9e9834049b3b36923cec44641d8ae1e34afcac09d692b07b2bc1c1","caption":"And so by 1913 Sydney looked like this.  You can the (I hate to say it) the limp phallus of the old town, the expansion on the mainland, the mill marked by railroad tracks across the creek, and a new residential area shown here at the upper right.  It was called Whitney Pier, in honor of Henry Melville.\n\n[https://wardmaps.com/products/sydney-nova-scotia-canada-1914-streetcar-lines](https://wardmaps.com/products/sydney-nova-scotia-canada-1914-streetcar-lines)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d6f9c338fe9e9834049b3b36923cec44","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d6f9c338fe9e9834049b3b36923cec44","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d6f9c338fe9e9834049b3b36923cec44","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d6f9c338fe9e9834049b3b36923cec44","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d6f9c338fe9e9834049b3b36923cec44","altText":"And so by 1913 Sydney looked like this.  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Louis Gentilcore, ed., *Historical Atlas of Canada,* 1993, vol. 2, pl 46.)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/384498f1c6fd534dbe44e52c98964213","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/384498f1c6fd534dbe44e52c98964213","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/384498f1c6fd534dbe44e52c98964213","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/384498f1c6fd534dbe44e52c98964213","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/384498f1c6fd534dbe44e52c98964213","altText":"The coal was local and from the Sydney Field, by far Canada's most important coal-production in the year 1900.  Here, in maps for 1865 and 1"},{"sha":"20ed94010a1ac5059c116a4a4026487f2ef6a5e0acb0b57e8454f6cf1dc3926f","caption":"(Donald Kerr and Deryck W. 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You're kidding, right?"},{"sha":"d434e084310af12550d2c8d9c29037fec1413b715a580a8687e7b5122d219721","caption":"Sometimes you can see the slope of the sedimentary beds slipping under the sea.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d434e084310af12550d2c8d9c29037fe","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d434e084310af12550d2c8d9c29037fe","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d434e084310af12550d2c8d9c29037fe","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d434e084310af12550d2c8d9c29037fe","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/d434e084310af12550d2c8d9c29037fe","altText":"Sometimes you can see the slope of the sedimentary beds slipping under the sea."},{"sha":"230c701a71cb779571cc512e0bc6dfa72ec0e5b4776aa144baae1856496684df","caption":"Some places it looks like coal rubble 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