Legislation and Bills

This Category is intended to organize legislation (passed by the federal parliament or provincial legislature) and proposed acts or bills before parliament or legislature. If a bill was passed into law and that is known then the corresponding Act should be referenced and provided if available. If it is not clear that a bill was eventually passed into law, then that should be noted.

When a Bill is passed, the number of the corresponding Act is almost always different from that of the bill before passage. For example, Bill 50 of 1907, once passed into law, became Chapter 101 of 1908.

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Dominion Atlantic Railway

• Act to Incorporate the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company; Federal 1895 Bill 48
• An Act Respecting the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company, Limited; Federal 1895 Bill 49
• An Act to Authorize the Sale of the Yarmouth Steamship Company’s Property to the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company; Federal 1900 Bill 185
• Act Respecting the Dominion Atlantic Railway; Federal 1900 Bill 83
• Act to enable Kentville to bonus; NS 1901 c. 114
• Act Passed Authorising DAR to Purchase Midland Railway of Nova Scotia; Federal 1905 Chapter 85
• Act respecting purchase of Midland Railway; NS 1905 c. 130
• Act Authorizing Extension of the Cornwallis Valley Railway; Federal 1907 Bill 50
• Act Passed Authorizing Construction of North Mountain Division, also Housekeeping Changes; Federal 1908 Chapter 101
• Act Passed Extending Time to Completion of North Mountain Division; Federal 1910 Chapter 88
• Act respecting; NS 1910 c. 134 regarding debentures
• NS Chapter 134 of 1910; amended NS 1910 c. 135 regarding debentures
• North Mountain Division: Act respecting; NS 1910 c. 136 Kings County to pay for lands taken for railway
• North Mountain Division Construction Deadline Extended; Federal 1911 Bill 22
• Lease of DAR to CPR Before Parliament; Federal 1911 Bill 53
• DAR Lease to CPR Authorized; Federal 1911 Chapter 72
• NS Chapter 136 of 1910 amended; NS 1912 c. 201
• Act Passed Extending Time to Completion of North Mountain Division; Federal 1912 Chapter 86
• Act Passed Extending Time to Completion of North Mountain Division; Federal 1914 Chapter 84
• Act Respecting Governance of the DAR; Federal 1949 - Chapter 31

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Cornwallis Valley Railway

• Cornwallis Valley Railway Company, Ltd.; Act to incorporate 1887 c. 59
• To amend, as to change and extension of lines, &c 1888 c. 87
• To amend, as to line of telephone 1889 c. 82
• To amend, as to Trustees and Farmers' Loan and Trust Company of New York .... 1890 c. 73
• To enable the Municipality of Kings County to borrow money to pay Railway Damages . 1890 c. 105
• To amend c. 59 of 1887. ... 1891 c. 94
• To amend, as to connection with Nova Scotia Central 1891 c. 116
• To amend, empowering Company to sell railway to Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company 1892 c. 107
• In reference to Railway Damages 1892 c. 108
• To amend c. 107 of 1892 1893 c. 102

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Midland Railway Company

• Act to incorporate; NS 1896 c. 85
• To authorize the Town of Truro to bonus; NS 1899 c. 88
• To authorize the Municipality of West Hants to pay Railway Damages for land taken for; NS 1899 c. 98
• Relative to payment of Railway Damages by Town of Windsor; NS 1899 c. 101
• To authorize the Municipality of East Hants to pay damages for land taken for; NS 1899 c. 102
• To amend c. 85 of 1896; NS 1899 c. 130
• To enable Town of Truro to bonus, Act to amend c. 88, Acts 1899; NS 1901 c. 91
• Act to amend c. 85, Acts 1896; NS 1902 c. 175
• Act to enable Colchester Municipality to pay for right of way; NS 1903 c. 121
• Act to amend c. 85, Acts 1896, incorporating; NS 1903 c. 233
• Act respecting sale of property; NS 1905 c. 130
• Act Passed Authorising DAR to Purchase Midland Railway of Nova Scotia; Federal 1905 Chapter 85

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North Mountain Railway

• North Mountain Railway Co., Ltd. Act to incorporate NS 1902 c. 130
• amended NS 1904 c. 137 extended deadline to begin “effective work” to March 27, 1906
• amended NS 1906 c. 163 extended deadline to begin “effective work” to March 27, 1908
• amended NS 1908 c. 133 extended deadline to begin “effective work” to July 1, 1909
• North Mountain Railway Co., Ltd.; Act respecting NS 1908 c. 132 Kings County to pay for lands taken for railway
• North Mountain Division Dominion Atlantic Railway; Act respecting NS 1910 c. 136 amended 1912 c. 201 NS 1912 c. 201 time extension, clarification of status of lands taken for railway

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Windsor and Annapolis Railway

• Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company:- see Provincial Railways 1865 c. 13
  
• To incorporate 1866 c. 1
  
• To incorporate, again 1867 c. 36
  
• To provide for a Station at Windsor 1867 c. 40
  
• To assess for Dyke rates 1868 c. 24
  
• To appraise for damages for, in Kings County – 1868 c. 32
  
• To appraise damages for, in Annapolis County 1868 c. 32
  
• To amend, as to assessment for lands in Kings County by three Arbitrators 1868 c. 34
  
• To amend, ratifying and incorporating the Memorandum and Articles of Association with the Act of Incorporation 1869 c.23
  
• Relating to Assessments for said Railway in Hants County 1870 c. 30
  
• To provide for the payment of Railway damages in Eastern Hants 1870 c.31
  
• To provide for same in Western Hants 1870 c.32
  
• To legalize Loan of Money for right of way 1870 c. 56
  
• Relating to Webster Lands, Kentville 1870 c. 56
  
• see Windsor and Annapolis Railway Mutual Sick and Accident Fund Society 1873 c. 86
  
• To guarantee interest on £50,000 of the A Debenture Stock of 1877 c. 28
  
• To amend the last named, and extend guarantee to £75,000 1878 c. 22
  
• see Nova Scotia Railway Company, Limited (Section 3 et seq.) 1880 c. 69
  
• To permit the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company to change location of Station at Middleton 1885 c. 89
  
• see Railway Aid Consolidation Act, 1866 (Section 12 et seq.) 1886 c. 1
  
• see Halifax and Great Western Railway Company (Section 2, sub-section 3) 1886 c. 2
  
• see Act to amend Cornwallis Valley Railway Company, Limited .. 1892 c. 107
  
• To amend last named 1893 c. 102
  
• To authorize the Sale of the Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway to 1893 c. 141
  
• To authorize the purchase of the Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway bv 1893 c. 142
  
• To amend c. 141 of 1893 .. 1893 c. 143
  
• Windsor and Annapolis Railway Mutual Sick and Accident Fund Society, Act to incorporate 1873 c. 86
  

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Western Counties Railway / Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway

• Western Counties Railway Company, Act to incorporate 1870 c. 81
• To encourage the building of certain Railways, including the Western Counties Railway 1872 c. 17
• To authorize the Township of Yarmouth to take Stock in 1873 c. 26
• To amend, as to Yarmouth, Capital Stock, issue of bonds, when to begin, exemption from taxation 1873 c. 43
• To amend c. 17 of 1872 1874 c. 12
• To amend c. 26 of 1873 1875 c. 54
• To amend, as to Inspection of Books, &c 1875 c. 68
• To amend, as to issue of Debentures and right to vote 1876 c. 73
• To authorize the issue of Provincial Debentures to 1877 c. 29
• To appoint Commissioners to re-appraise damages for Railway property in Annapolis Countv 1877 c. 41
• To further amend c. 26 of 1873 1877 c. 41
• To amend, as to Debentures, and Debenture Stock Certificates 1877 c. 63
• To extend time for completion, Security to be given 1877 c. 72
• To appoint Commissioners to re-appraise damages for Railway property in Digby County 1878 c. 35
• To extend time for completion, Security to be renewed 1878 c.53
• To amend, as to construction of iron instead of wooden Bridges, and Debentures therefor, certain proceedings ratified. Company may execute Deed of Trust, Security to be renewed 1878 c. 54
• To amend, defining Western Division and Eastern Division, Land Grant, Working Expenses, may issue A and B Debenture Stock Certificates; Sinking Fund, Cancellation of Bonds, &c 1879 c. 64
• To authorize the Government to aid the Railway from Digby to Yarmouth 1879 c. 65
• see Nova Scotia Railway Company, Limited 1880 c. 69
• Directors authorized to sell to the Nova Scotia Railway Company Limited 1880 c. 74
• To confer certain powers on the Trustee of 1881 c. 48
• To authorize the raising of a Provincial Loan Section I (c) 1883 c. 19
• Respecting a Provincial Loan Section 2 (b) 1884 c. 3
• To authorize certain Grants and to provide for the completion and consolidation of the Railways between Halifax and Yarmouth (Section 12) 1886 c. 1
• see Halifax and Great Western Railway Company. Act respecting, Provincial Secretary empowered to sell Western Division 1886 c. 16
• To amend the last named, as to giving public notice of Sale 1887 c. 2

• Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway Company; respecting, and changing name of Western Counties Railway Company to 1893 c. 46
• To authorize Sale to the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company, Limited 1893 c. 141
• To authorize purchase of, by the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company, Limited 1893 c. 142
• To amend c. 141 of 1893 1893 c. 143
• Act respecting, certain Orders in Council ratified 1894 c. 28