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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

Henry M. Ash and CS Faraday (1)
1879-1900

HENRY ASH SKETCHES: 1900

Note: Sketches with record IDs beginning with AC are in the collection of the Atlantic Cable website. All other sketches are in the collection of the Library and Archives Canada.

Notes from news accounts and other contemporary documents are interspersed in this font.

--Bill Burns
 
1900
Dover Bay, Nova Scotia - Waterville, Ireland - Weston Super Mare, England (Commercial Cable Company)

August 6, 1900
Cod fishing on Banquereau off Nova Scotia 6th August 1900
Library and Archives Canada - Henry Ash Fonds: e04414199

August 8, 1900
Public Gardens Halifax, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada - Henry Ash Fonds: e04414200

August 8, 1900
In the Public Gardens Halifax, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada - Henry Ash Fonds: e04414201

August 9, 1900
In the pine woods Halifax, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada - Henry Ash Fonds: e04414206

August 10, 1900
Halifax Harbour looking south. Nova Scotia.
Cable ship Faraday coaling

Library and Archives Canada - Henry Ash Fonds: e04414202

August 10, 1900
Bedford Basin, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada - Henry Ash Fonds: e04414203

August 10, 1900
On the Bedford Road looking towards Halifax, Nova Scotia
part of the Nigger Settlement in view

Library and Archives Canada - Henry Ash Fonds: e04414204

August 11, 1900
Yachts off the northwest arm Halifax, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada - Henry Ash Fonds: e04414205

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and Archives Canada. Reproduced by permission.

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Last revised: 20 June, 2006

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