>From: "Carolyn Wallace" <[email protected]> >To: "ns roots" <[email protected]> >Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:31:16 -0400 > >Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N.S., Thursday, 24 May 1934; > >Romantic Days Of the Stage Coach > Part Two > The stage barn was torn down in the 70's and a new one built at the > north end of Court Street. T.S. Lindsay, when he moved to Halifax, in > 1834, as Hiram Hyde's manager, purchased the house on the south-east > corner of Main and Court Streets, formerly owned by Alexander Campbell, > later he built a residence near the new stage barn on the north side of > St. Mary's St., and built a large brick veneered commercial building on > the site of his former residence. > In December, 1843, and January and February 1844, an account of the > number of letters the province , has been kept, which delivered by each > post office it showed that at Antigonish, in the week ending Dec. 16, > 1843, there were 88 letters delivered with a revenue from postage of two > pounds, eight shillings and seven pence half-penny, in the week ending > Jan.13, 1844, 135 letters delivered, postage two > pounds----------------and- pence, and for the week ending Feb.10,1844, 81 > letters, postage two pounds, nineteen shillings and a half penny. > Comparing the results at Antigonish with that at Truro, there were 307 > letters at Antigonish with postage of seven pounds, seventeen shillings > and fourpence and at Truro, 136 letters with postage of four pounds six > and one-half pence. > January 5, 1852, there were in the province, 39 post offices and 106 > way offices in which keepers of 87 received two pounds per annum and 19 > for four pounds. The Postmaster General recommended that the salary of > the Antigonish postmaster be raised from forty to fifty pounds per annum, > a note being made that "this office corresponds with more way offices > than any other office in the province." > The postage on a letter weighing a half ounce between Antigonish and > Halifax, from 1845 to 1851, was nine pence. In 1851, the general rate for > the Maritime Provinces and Canada became three pence per half ounce. On > newspapers there had been for some time an annual tax of two shillings > and sixpence, which was enjoyed as a perquisite by the Deputy Postmaster > General; this was removed and the uniform rate of a half penny was > charged on each newspaper, this going into effect january 3, 1843. > Postage stamps were first sold to the public of London, England, May 3, > 1849, but Nova Scotia did not have stamps until 1851, when four > denominations were issued. The one penny stamp had a small portrait of > Queen Victoria set in a rectangle, with a fleur-de lis background, and > was reddish-brown in colour; the other three had fleur-de lis, with the > rose, thistle. sahmrock and leaf in the corners; the three pence stamp > was in two shades of blue, the sixpence in yellow green and blue green, > and the shilling in two shades of violet. > In 1860 Nova Scotia issued new postage stamps to meet the new monetary > system, the issue comprising six values, one cent, > two------------------------and 12 1-2 cents and these were in use until > the confederation of the provinces took place. >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Carolyn Wallace ___________________________________________ >nsroots mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.ednet.ns.ca/cgi-bin/listinfo/nsroots