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Dartmouth and Cow Bay Railway

By John R. Cameron

A strange little railway was the Dartmouth and Cow Bay, essentially an electric suburban line chartered in 1911 (c.120) to run an electric railway (street railway) in Dartmouth with an extension to Cow Bay Beach. This was one of the railways undoubtedly seeking to use the electric railway subsidies brought in that year (1911, c.7). Corporate powers were extended and its time for completion put off in 1914 (c.170). It was likely a casualty of the war, since it is not heard of again.

[SOURCE: A Legislative History of Nova Scotia Railways, by John R. Cameron, 1999.]

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