Port of Guysborough fonds

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Port of Guysborough fonds

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    • 1874-1888, 1895-1918 (Creation)
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      Port of Guysborough

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    3 cm of textual records

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    During the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, the Port of Guysborough was a busy shipping center and was established sometime in the early to mid nineteenth century as a port of registry and customs collection. After Confederation in 1867, the new federal government assumed control over customs and navigation and shipping. The new Department of Marine and Fisheries assumed responsibility for the administration of legislation relating to shipping and seamen, including the registration of vessels, which the federal Customs and Excise department began to administer the collection of taxes and duties. Most ports in the county were designated as "public ports", which meant that responsibility for the management of their port facilities, pilotage and harbour navigation aids also passed to the Department of Marine and Fisheries.

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    Fonds consists of one book which was used to record maritime wrecks and casualties in the Port and was also used as a seamen's shipping book, which records the rank and name of crew members and their activities (disembarking in Guysborough, continuing to Halifax etc.). Fonds also includes an account book used to record payment of Harbour Masters' fees.

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