Dates Covered: 1915 to 1957
Collection: Cape Split Development Company, Archival Catalogue
Type: archival description
Date Created: 1915
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: Item is a bound notebook that outlines general considerations, the proposed scheme for tidal development, cost estimates, and an estimated return on investment. Included in the appendix are data pertaining to the cost of development, operating costs, transmission lines, rates for power, and submarine transmissions. The last section, entitled miscellaneous data includes correspondence between… more Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/2/1
Date Created: 1916
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: Item is a booklet that outlines the legal limitations and business transactions for a share-holding company. Included are the signatures of three shareholders in the International Stream Flow Turbine Company, of whom each owned one common share.
Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/3/1
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: 2 technical drawings : blueprints ; 58 x 75 cm. File contains two copies of a blueprint illustrating the direction of the ice flow in the Bay of Fundy.
Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/4/8
Date Created: 1917
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: File contains the original report of consulting engineers Bogart and Pohl, as well as two typed copies. This report assesses the possibility of developing power and electric current at Cape Split by studying market conditions in the area, the physical conditions at Cape Split, and the effectiveness of the Clarkson Current Motor.
Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/2/3
Date Created: Unknown year in the decade of the 1910s
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 20cm, mount 25 x 30cm. Item is a photograph of Cape Split.
Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/4/3
Date Created: Unknown year in the decade of the 1910s
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21cm, mount 24 x 29cm. Item is a photograph of the highest cliff at the Cape Split. Photograph is covered with annotations, recto, in ink.
Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/4/4
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 20 cm. Item is a photograph of the boat landing and bathing area at Cape Split. Photo is annotated, recto, in ink: "Boat landing & bathing beach protected by Little Split – good chance here for road up mountain side. Height (sic) at top 360 ft approximately at this point. To the eastward further it is 550ft high". There are many annotations, verso, in… more Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/4/7
Date Created: 1917
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: Item is a signed agreement giving the Cape Split Development Company the right to use the Clarkson Current Motor in the Maritimes.
Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/3/3
Date Created: 1928
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: Item is a signed document transferring the right to produce power on the Cape Split property from the Cape Split Development Company to William L. Archibald.
Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/3/5
Date Created: Unknown year in the decade of the 1910s
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: 3 photographs : b&w ; 16 x 20cm. File contains three identical photographs of an artist's conception of the proposed pumping stations to be built at Cape Split. One is annotated, recto, "proposed changes in first unit". A second is annotated, verso, in pencil and ink, with instructions for the engravers. Note: The first photograph is torn almost completely in two, horizontally. more Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/4/2
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm. Item is a photograph of the Cape Split property. It is annotated, recto, in ink with the measurements of the cliffs and water levels and annotated, verso, in ink: "photo 3". more Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/4/5
Date Created: 1917
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: File contains the original report of Charles Allen, consulting engineer, on the Clarkson Current Motor, which contains a description of the apparatus used, the test results, Allen's conclusion, and the test result blueprints. File also contains two typed copies of this report. more Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/2/4
Date Created: 1916
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: File contains two copies of a published circular given to prospective shareholders. Circular gives an account of the goals of the Cape Split Development Company, an explanation of the proposed development, estimated costs, a list of company officers, and a share subscription agreement. One copy also contains a list of prominent shareholders.
Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/5/3
Date Created: 1955 to 1957
Collection: Cape Split Development Company
Description: File contains correspondence between W. L. Archibald, former Secretary of the Cape Split Development Co., and Morley Taylor, Manager of the Nova Scotia Power Commission. The letters all relate to the transfer of Cape Split Development Company documentation to the Nova Scotia Power Commission that occurred at a time when the NSPC was interested in reviving the power project at Cape Split.
Accession Number: 1989.001-CSD/1/2
