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The Dominion Atlantic Railway

This Nova Scotia Railway conglomerate is one of the more important pages out of Nova Scotia history. The D.A.R. served as the catalyst in the development of the economies of the Annapolis Valley Apple Industry and the Nova Scotia tourism industry and provided the vital link that connected the western end of Nova Scotia from Yarmouth to Halifax and Truro.

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The Dominion Atlantic Railway Digital Preservation Initiative Wiki Project

The entire DAR DPI web site including this Wiki is my personal donation to the study and preservation of the D.A.R. This railway has always held a fascination for me yet it's history has been elusive; confined to a few words in most publications and lacking in breadth and depth. Thankfully a few authors have taken the time to truly wade in, yet there is a much larger folklore component to the D.A.R. that keeps it's memory alive. By harnessing the technology of the internet and software like this Wiki, I hope we may eventually assemble the bits and pieces that everyone seems to have; their own little "slice" of the D.A.R.; and together hopefully we can build a true panorama of the railway everyone holds dear.

Steven Meredith

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Wiki Status

November 24, 2018

We are now online with our the new server. All the Wikis are now upgraded to 1.27.4, the Forums to 3.2 and you are welcome to resume normal editing and viewing. It was a big deal to get all 3 to the same version with all the same modifications so that apart from their content and individual formatting they are file for file all perfectly the same now. Please inform me if you encounter any trouble spots. Colour will return at a later date after I have got all my other sites transferred over and converted.

August 11, 2018

All the Wikis are now upgraded to 1.20.2 and you are welcome to resume normal editing and viewing. It was a big deal to get all 3 to the same version with all the same modifications so that apart from their content and individual formatting they are file for file all perfectly the same now. Please inform me if you encounter any trouble spots.

June 6, 2018

Please bear with us as you may be experiencing frequent outages on the site. Don't worry.. we're not going away but we have already converted the whole DAR DPI site to a virtual machine server and are in the process of upgrading all our wiki and forum software as well as our server version to serve the community better for the coming years. Your patience is appreciated as much as you probably appreciate an advertisement free site!

"Featured Videos" has also been moved off to the side menu. We figured it was time for change as DAR videos are rare and they have been "featuring" on the front page for a few years now. If you have any links to new DAR footage, please let us know so we can add them too.

April 12, 2018

Wow. How time flies! The whole gang is still here though and busy as ever. Samuel, Matt, Dan and myself have as usual been adding, adding, adding and of course thanks to all the contributors who let us use images of their photos and other artifacts to share with all the D.A.R. fans out there, plus our occasional editors who add even more detail to the wiki!

The copyright on the History of the Dominion Atlantic has now expired so head over to the page where you'll find a link to download the book.

The really big news is that the "Group of Ten" bought the Harold Jenkins collection, digitized it and donated the original negatives and artifacts to the Middleton Railway Museum. Those images will soon start showing up as time permits to upload them. Keep an eye out for them.

DARDPI - 10 years now! Way to go fans that without you, this would never have happened!!

Because of repetitive hacking on the site, I have had to close the automatic registration system but you can can still email me (see the bottom of the page) and I will manually add you in.

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Museum Affiliations

This wiki is a part of the Middleton Memory Lane Railway Museum site and is intended to be a repository of digitized artefacts at the museum. The wiki's other mandate is to provide as complete a history as possible to serve as a private study resource for museum volunteers on site and on the internet.

We have also forged personal relationships with other museums and societies with which we work closely and with others who have contributed material from their archives to our wiki:

• Nova Scotia Museum
• Kings Historical Society
• Wolfville Historical Society
• Yarmouth Historical Society
• Canadian Pacific Historical Association
• Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society

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The Digital DAR - An MSTS Route

Set in the mid seventies, the route from Yarmouth to Windsor Junction including the Coldbrook and Steam Mills spur and the Midland to Brooklyn has been faithfully recreated by Paul over the last 8 years. This was a labour of love and it shows. All the towns along the route and even Cornwallis and Greenwood are especially accurate and well detailed.

Paul has also created all the necessary rolling stock for the railway so that the immersion is complete.

I consider this a priceless donation as the time spent on this recreation runs into years and yet Paul has donated this route for all to enjoy. Perhaps one day, we will even see it running as a permanent display at the Memory Lane Railway Museum!

We have all the necessary files stored here on the forum if you would like to roll your sleeves up and get cracking on the DAR right away. Please click on the link to go right to our file section: http://www.dardpi.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=17

Take time as well to browse the messages in the area for screen shots and the running dialogue as Paul worked on this.

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Contributions

I would like to assure contributors that unlike other forums and groups on the internet, the images and text contributed will never be reduced or culled to save space. The whole idea to this wiki is to save absolutely everything possible! This wiki is backed up regularly as well to protect these images and text and the investment in time put in to it by all.

Picture Preferences

All contribution are gratefully accepted but if possible, we would like photos in JPG format saved at 100% quality with no smoothing with a the largest dimension (either H or W) at 1500 pixels. At this size, it is not suitable for publication yet allows enthusiasts a great deal of detail when examining the photos.

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Terms of use

You have already agreed to the Terms & Conditions of this web site when you entered it. If you have not agreed then you may not proceed until you have agreed to our Terms & Conditions of use. Please click here to be directed to our Terms & Conditions page.

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User Policy

Our policy to eliminate Spam robots and control Spam "content" will be:

1. The Wiki can not be edited by guests. Interested individuals will be allowed to contribute to the Wiki with no questions asked. If you are interested, make sure you have created a user name on the forum and then send an email on the forum by going to your User Control Panel, private messages, to user "STEM" explaining your interest and I will put you on the wiki with your forum username and password right away. Should you have problems with signing up in the forum, please direct your email to me at "Webmeister *at* DARDPI *dot* ca".----