Excerpt from Record of Canadian Shipping: A List of Square-Rigged Vessels, Mainly 500 Tons and Over, Built in the Eastern Provinces of British North America From the Year 1786 to 1920A Amherst, Nova Scotia. Town, 8000 population, at extreme head of the Bay of Fundy and Chignecto Bay, Ships were built at the following places in the vicinity Wallace, Maccan, Pugwash, Port Elgin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.