Henry George Clopper Ketchum Fonds-Series2.4-Chignecto Ship Railway-Reports And Minutes

Reports and minutes [textual record]. -- [188-?]-1892. -- 6 cm of textual record

Scope and content: This sub-series contains background information about ship railways, descriptions of the Chignecto Ship Railway project, an endorsement of it by London and Liverpool shipowners, progress reports on construction, and a report on expected traffic.

It also includes copies of professional papers, some read before the Canadian Society of Engineers, as well as minutes of proceedings at deputations to Charles Tupper and G. E. Foster.

Title based on content

File arrangement is chronological

BOX NO. 1
Files:

28.		Endorsement by certificate shipowners in London and Liverpool. - [188-?]
29.	Extracts	Letters from leading engineers and naval architects as to the practicability of constructing and operating a ship railway. - edited copy of booklet. - 1882
30.		Answer of James B. Eads correcting the erroneous statements of the promoters of the Nicaragua Canal scheme, Téhuantepec Ship-Railway. - 14 April 1882
31.	Extract	Chignecto Ship Railway, Canada. - [188-?]
32.		Report on the Chignecto Marine Transport Railway/ by B. Baker. - 14 July 1888. - 2 copies
33.		Report of H. G. C. Ketchum, Dominion of Canada guarantee, The Chignecto Marine Transport Railway Company, Limited. - 23 March 1888
34.	Extracts	Opinions of the English press, Chignecto Ship Railway, Canada: its early history and present position. - 1890
35.	Extract	Report regarding the traffic to be expected from P. E. Island and the Gulf ports towards St. John, Boston, New York and West Indies via the Chignecto Ship Railway/ by Edward Jack; with an appendix by H. G. C. Ketchum. - 1890. - 2 copies
36.		The Chignecto Ship Railway/ by H. G. C. Ketchum. - 1893
37.		Minutes of proceedings at a deputation to Sir Charles Tupper, Chignecto Marine Transport Railway Company, Limited. - 20 March 1893
38.		Minutes of proceedings at a deputation to the Hon. G. E. Foster, Chignecto Marine Transport Railway Company, Limited. - 31 October 1894
39.		Statement for the Dominion Government and Parliament, Chignecto Marine Transport Railway Company, Ltd. - May 1895
40.		Chignecto Marine Transport Railway Co. Ltd., report/ by A. D. Provand : relating to the negotiations with the Canadian Government for the reinstatement of the company. - 4 August 1899
41.		Ship Transportation and The Chignecto Ship Railway : papers read before the Canadian Society of Engineers at Montreal, December 29th, 1891/ by H. G. C. Ketchum. - 1892

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