After the Cape Split Development Company became defunct all company documents were left in the care of William L. Archibald, the company Secretary. In 1942, he sent some of the records to Professor W. Abell of Acadia University, Wolfville, N. S. – the printed prospectus from which the shares were sold, a black covered book with engineering data, a progress report from August 1917, an article written by Archibald and published in Industrial Canada, the final 1929 letter to the shareholders, and “other material”. Archibald instructed that these records were to be placed with the Acadia University Library when Abell was finished using them. The date when this actually occurred has not been determined. In 1955, Morley Taylor of the Nova Scotia Power Commission expressed an interest in studying the company documentation with a view to reviving the project. Archibald had retained some documentation in his home and sent this to Taylor. There were twelve items: a deed; a copy of his article; two legal agreements; patent assignments; four photographs; a blueprint; a booklet; a copy of the final letter, 1929, to the shareholders; a copy of the engineering report; and two lists of company shareholders. At this time, Archibald also instructed the Acadia University Library to allow Taylor to remove the documentation that it held, with the promise that it would be returned at a later date. After analyzing the project, NSPC decided that it was not feasible; however, Taylor wished to keep the documentation in case circumstances changed. Archibald agreed to this on 24 July 1956. In February 1957, Archibald sent Taylor the deed to the
property along with still further documentation that he had not yet sent and on 4 March 1957, the rights inherent in the deed were legally transferred to NSPC. For the next thirty-years, the records were kept by various officials of the Nova Scotia Power Commission. They – both those that had been removed from the Acadia University Library in 1955 and the additional ones that Archibald had sent to Taylor - were finally all sent to the University Archives on 10 July 1989, by G. C. Baker of the NSPC. When returned, the NSPC did not include any records it created during the time it was restudying the project.