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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24BF_the-killam-brothers-buildings-wharf_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
The Killam Family Built a Business
By the third quarter of the nineteenth century, many Yarmouth companies and their owners were enjoying substantial profits as a result of their investments in shipping and labours as commission merchants, ship c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249Q_the-parker-eakins-buildings-wharf_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
Merchants and Mariners
True to the code of merchant-mariners, Parker-Eakins & Co. saw their mission as an endeavor "to facilitate the production, distribution and exchange of goods and services for mutual profit and advantage".
To achi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249L_the-yarmouth-boston-ferry_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
The Age of the Passenger Steamer
With the coming of the steam engine, it was only a matter of time before the sleek lines of wooden hulls and trim masts were replaced by riveted steel plates and tall stacks. By the mid-nineteenth century, the sou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21F7_frost-park_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
[Excerpt from Town of Yarmouth informational sign]
Get your bearings
Named after Charles Sydney Frost, a Yarmouth resident who became president of the Bank of Nova Scoita, this green space at the heart of the town is the perfect place to relax…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EW_lost-to-the-sea-perdus-en-mer_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
The year 1879 was a disastrous one for Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, with no fewer than 31 vessels lost along with 106 persons. The ships lost were among the best of the Yarmouth fleet, some carrying valuable cargoes. The loss of life left 26 wido…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21ES_lost-to-the-sea_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
Dedicated to the memory of all those
residents of Yarmouth County
and crew members of ships owned
in Yarmouth County who have been
lost to the sea
We honour those here named as well
as those not yet known to us
[Remembered Dead beginning …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EE_sarah-corning_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
It is a long way from the farming community of Chegoggin, Yarmouth County, to a small village at the foot of Mount Ararat, but no journey was too far for Sarah Corning if there were children in need of care. Sarah Corning was born on 16 March, 187…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21DY_hartlin-trail_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
Executive Director
Yarmouth Waterfront Development Corporation
It is with great pleasure that the Yarmouth Waterfront
Development Corporation dedicates this trail
to the memory of Robert E. Hartlin. The "Hartlin Trail"
extends through Yarmo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21DF_first-yarmouth-mayor-and-council_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
The Town of Yarmouth
_ Nova Scotia _
On its 75th anniversary
as an incorporated town
erects this memorial as a
grateful tribute to the vision,
devotion and unselfish public
service of its
First Mayor and Council
we of today reap the ric…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21DC_cape-forchu-lighthouse_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
This replica was created and donated
to the citizens of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
from
Doug Koohtow, Holland Landing, Ontario
May 28, 2014