Fonds MG 3 volumes 1728-1740 - Cumberland Railway and Coal Company

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Cumberland Railway and Coal Company

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    MG 3 volumes 1728-1740

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    • 1870-1968 (Creation)
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      Cumberland Railway and Coal Company

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    2 m of textual records

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    (1883-1930)

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    The Cumberland Coal and Railway Company was incorporated in 1883 and changed its name to Cumberland Railway and Coal Company in 1884 when it purchased the assets of the Springhill and Parrsboro Coal and Railway Company. The latter had been incorporated in 1872 as a mining and railway company that built a rail link from a mine at Springhill south to the port of Parrsboro on the Bay of Fundy. There coal was to be shipped to destinations in southern Nova Scotia and along the eastern seaboard of North America. The Cumberland Coal and Railway Company refurbished the line, repaired bridges, and laid the track with steel rails. It began mining on a much larger scale, opening the No. 1 and No. 2 collieries at the Springhill coal field. The company's coal production in the late 19th century was fed by the railway boom across Canada and the economic protection afforded by the National Policy which prevented a flood of cheap American coal into the country. In 1910 the Dominion Coal Company Limited (DOMCO) absorbed the company, maintaining it as a subsidiary. The Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (DOSCO) took over DOMCO in 1930. At a later date the railway was abandoned.

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    Consists of land records and other documents relating to the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company's land ownership. Includes correspondence, title abstracts, deeds, land grants, leases, financial records, blueprints, reports and related documents. Also includes a printed pamphlet containing by-laws, rules and regulations of the company, 1886.

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        HE pamphlet box number 34

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