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Nova Scotia (now part of Canada): Halifax. Eight sheets of plans and drawings of...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/947
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This record is about the Nova Scotia (now part of Canada): Halifax. Eight sheets of plans and drawings of... dating from 1825 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MR 1/947
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1825
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Description (What the record is about)
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Nova Scotia (now part of Canada): Halifax. Eight sheets of plans and drawings of Fort George, as proposed to be rebuilt on Signal Hill: (1, 7-8) plans of the whole fort and its surroundings; (2-4) sheets of sections of the whole fort; (5-6) two copies of a sheet bearing a plan, elevation and sections of casemated cavalier, proposed to be built within the fort. Items (1, 7-8) bear reference tables to buildings. Scale: (1, 7-8) 1 inch to 100 feet [1:1,200]; (2-4) 1 inch to 30 feet [1:360]; (5-6) 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. Compass indicators to items (1) and (8). Items (2, 5, 7-8) [by] John G Toler; item (4) [by] Lieutenant Thomas Henry Blackiston. All items signed by Colonel Gustavus Nicolls, Royal Engineers, 20 December 1825. Originally accompanied a letter from Colonel Nicolls to General Mann, 20 December 1825; the letter is not preserved at this reference.
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Item (4) follows item (8)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1786
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 1226
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559974/
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