The magazine at that time (I am assuming 2X GG grandfather puts him back in the 1870s-1880s ?) would have been located on the Halifax side of the Harbour, close to where the Naval shipyard is now. This site was for some time one of two obstacles to the extension of the railway into what became the Deepwater terminal(Pier 2) of the Intercolonial Railway. The Ordnance Department (which handled the distribution of powder for artillery, shells, cannonballs, bullets etc.) felt sparks from the smokestacks of the the trains could start fires in the surrounding buildings. Although the ordnance job involved military supplies, it was handled by the Chief of the Commissary, and the employees were more often civilians, not soldiers. A compromise was negotiated with the department, getting the land at what is now the Bedford Magazine for the military stores, but in order to get the agreement, several chief clerks in Halifax and at Whitehall in London had to be consulted. The Deepwater Terminal became the wharf at which the Olympic, sister ship to RMS Titanic, loaded troops bound to and from Europe in the First World War. Jay Underwood Elmsdale NS > > From: Sandi Bellefeuille <rjsbell@rogers.com> > Date: 2007/04/26 Thu PM 03:42:42 EDT > To: nova-scotia@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NS-L] Magazine Ordnance Dept. > > Hi folks: > > I was just doing a search through McAlpine's Halifax City Directory and my 2x gr. g'father's occupation was listed as: Foreman, Magazine Ordnance Dept (or, sometimes Yard). Can anyone on the list explain to me what the "magazine" is/was? Also, for one particular year, his occupation was shown as Foreman, Taylor's Yard. Were they one and the same?? > > Many thanks! > > Sandi Bellefeuille, > Mississauga > ---------------------------------------- > Basic List Commands: > > 1. To post to the list > Send a message to: > NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com > > 2. How to unsubscribe > a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- > request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word > unsubscribe > > b. Digest mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-D- > request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word > unsubscribe > > 3. How to subscribe > Send an email containing only the word > subscribe > to NOVA-SCOTIA-L-request@rootsweb.com > > 4. How to change to Digest mode > a. Unsubscribe from List mode (2.a. above) > b. Subscribe to Digest mode > Send an email containing only the word > subscribe > to NOVA-SCOTIA-D-request@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOVA-SCOTIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >From Railfare-DC Books: http://www.railfare.net/From%20Folly%20to%20Fortune.html http://railfare.net/builtforwar.html Visit the Nova Scotia Railway Hall of Fame: http://www.nsrwyhalloffame.com/ Visit the Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society: http://novascotiarailwayheritage.com/