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The construction of the Nova Scotia Railway by the colonial government was partly encouraged by the construction failures and ongoing delays in building the Shubenacadie Canal The success of the railway came at the expense of the canal which opened in 1861, but soon fell into disrepair from lack of use ( and because the rail bridges over the canal were too low for the steamers on the canal ).
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Regional transportation networks have also changed significantly in recent decades with port modernizations, with new expressways and ongoing arterial highway construction, the abandonment of various low-capacity railway branchlines ( including the entire railway system of Prince Edward Island and southwestern Nova Scotia ), and the construction of the Canso Causeway and the Confederation Bridge.
The financing of the college had largely come from customs duties collected by John Coape Sherbrooke, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia during the occupation of Castine, Maine during the War of 1812, who invested GBP £ 7000 as the initial endowment and reserved GBP £ 3000 for the physical construction of the college.
The larger-board construction also made the Nova more reliable, which made it especially attractive for industrial or lab settings.
Sarah W. Whedon suggests in an 2009 article in Nova Religio that the social construction of indigo children is a response to an " apparent crisis of American childhood " in the form of increased youth violence and diagnoses of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Peter of Maricourt, in the last half of the 13th century, also wrote a treatise on the construction and use of a universal astrolabe ( Nova compositio astrolabii particularis ).
Däniken claims that it would have taken them too long to cut all the blocks necessary and drag them to the construction site in time to build the Great Pyramid in only 20 years, but Nova shows how easy and fast it is to cut a block of stone, and shows the rollers used in transportation.
Contracts were awarded, beginning in May 1952 to build approach roads and rail lines for the causeway construction and the project was officially started at a ceremony on September 16, 1952 attended by Minister of Transport Lionel Chevrier and Premier of Nova Scotia Angus L. MacDonald.
The financing of Dalhousie college, now Dalhousie University in Halifax had largely come from custom duties collected by Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, then lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia during the occupation of Castine, Maine during the War of 1812, investing GBP £ 7000 as the initial endowment and GBP £ 3000 reserved for the actual construction of the college.
During the initial construction phase, Nuckolls found an error in his calculations, and an October 1979 review chaired by John Foster Jr. of TRW confirmed that there was no way Nova would reach ignition.
He also began a campaign of railway construction, resigning as Provincial Secretary in 1853 to become Nova Scotia's first Chief Commissioner of Railways ; as Commissioner he oversaw the initial construction of the Nova Scotia Railway.
Railway construction came to the Maritime provinces as early as the mid-1830s with the opening of the Albion Railway, a coal mining railway in Nova Scotia's Pictou County and the second railway to open in British North America.
In 1887 the ICR took over and completed construction of a line running from Oxford Junction to Stellarton, along Nova Scotia shores of the Northumberland Strait.
Next came the construction in 1929 of the new, baronial style Cornwallis Inn at Kentville, Nova Scotia in the Annapolis Valley and the rebuilding of the Digby Pines Hotel at Digby.
Havre Boucher saw the construction of a large railway yard, which remains in operation today by the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway.
He made his fortune in lumbering and construction before being made chairman of the Nova Scotia Highways Board in 1920 and serving briefly as minister of highways in 1925.
After the construction of the power plant was finished, most of the workers stayed in Nova Kakhovka.
Soon, however, he moved back to Ukraine to work on the construction of a new hydroelectric power station in the town of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson Oblast.
He has been involved in the construction of a database for the Portuguese Contemporary Music Centre (), is currently a Research Fellow of the CESEM research unit at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon and collaborates regularly with the Department of Orthodox Theology at the University of Eastern Finland ().
In 1908, Fleming donated the property to the citizens of Halifax for use as a park and proposed the construction of a tower within the " Dingle " to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the establishment of representative government in Nova Scotia ; the province having been the first colony in the British Empire outside the United Kingdom to have such a form of government.
In the 1950s, while construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway was underway, a group of industrialists and politicians from the Maritimes called for a Chignecto Canal to be built as a shortcut for ocean-going ships travelling between Saint John and U. S. ports to the Great Lakes to avoid travelling around Nova Scotia.
()-located along Rua Nova, between the bays of Porto Pim and Horta, the old offices / warehouses of Reis & Martins were important in the construction and maintenance of motor launches and whaling boats, reaching its importance around 1946, when it was the most influential supply centre for the whaling industry on Faial.
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File: Toronto Scoria plaza construction. jpg | Scotia Plaza construction
After Le Loutre's militia retreated, the British began construction of a palisade fort on a ridge immediately east of the Missaguash River, along the disputed border between Acadia and Nova Scotia since the Treaty of Utrecht was signed.
The order was given by Governor of Nova Scotia, Charles Lawrence, the same military officer who had presided over construction of Fort Lawrence in 1750.
The tower was the last of a series of construction projects in downtown Toronto launched in the boom years of the 1980s, when a number of massive towers were built nearby, such as Scotia Plaza.
* 1720: A railroad is reportedly used in the construction of the French fortress at Louisburg, Nova Scotia.
The canal's ongoing construction delays were partly responsible for the 1851 decision by Nova Scotia's colonial government to build the Nova Scotia Railway, which built lines from Halifax to Windsor and Truro by 1858.
The initial ownership of the line is unclear, however the European and North American Railway was incorporated in New Brunswick on March 15, 1851, following the Portland conference, with the intention being to start construction east toward Nova Scotia.
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The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.
Several lines in China such as Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Mass Rapid Transit, the Beijing – Tianjin Intercity Railway, and the Shanghai – Nanjing High-Speed Railway, serve a similar role with many more under construction or planned.
The China Railway Seventh Group Co. Ltd will be in charge of the contract, under signed by the China Railway Engineering Corporation, with construction to be started from June 2008.
The town's growth was facilitated by its role as the administrative and commercial centre of German East Africa and industrial expansion resulting from the construction of the Central Railway Line in the early 1900s.
A 936 km railroad construction program, the Trans-Gabon Railway, began in October 1974.
The construction of the Baghdad Railway, financed by German banks, was designed to eventually connect Germany with the Turkish Empire and the Persian Gulf, but it also collided with British and Russian geopolitical interests.
The construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ( now Canadian National Railway ) through this district made it of some importance at the start of the 20th century.
A high speed inter-city rail line ( Haramain High Speed Rail Project also known as the " Western Railway "), is under construction in Saudi Arabia.
* 1885 – In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway extending across Canada.
Beginning with Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy ( 1879 ) and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( 1875 – 1885 ) through Northern Ontario and the Canadian Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario manufacturing and industry flourished.
There are also plans to provide access to Santiago de Compostela by the Spanish High Speed Railway Network, a project under construction.
In February 2006, the final construction phase began on the Trans-Garagum Railway, a direct link between Ashgabat and Dashhowuz that will halve travel time between the southern and northern borders.
* During construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1883, blasting and excavation reveal high concentrations of nickel – copper ore at Murray Mine on the edge of the Sudbury Basin located near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
* November 7 – Canadian Pacific Railway: In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on a railway extending across Canada.
** President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railway Acts, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
) – In the Kuperovskaya district of Vladivostok, a grand ceremonial inauguration of construction work on the Trans-Siberian Railway is carried out by the Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich and a religious service held.
Many moving to Canada settled in Schreiber, Ontario, because of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and many played a major part in its completion.
Feverish, competitive construction plans provoked the 1877 – 1880 war over right of way with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
By late 1880 William Bell had begun to organize railway construction in Utah that would become the Palmer controlled Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway in mid 1881.
Railway engineers handle the design, construction, and operation of railroads and mass transit systems that use a fixed guideway ( such as light rail or even monorails ).
The construction of the first major trunk railway in the Empire, the Vienna-Trieste Austrian Southern Railway, was completed in 1857, a valuable asset for trade and the supply of coal.
In 1880 Thomas Catron sold some of the grant to the Denver and Rio Grande Railway for the construction of their San Juan line and a service center at Chama.
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