Nova Scotia Pony Express

Nova Scotia: 1849 Pony Express monument with ferry at dock -4

Nova Scotia
Pony Express

1849

Original plaque unveiled 26 August 1953

 

Photographs of
Plaque

Victoria Beach
Annapolis County
Nova Scotia

GPS location: 44°40’17″N 65°44’36″W

Google map

 


Nova Scotia: 1849 Pony Express monument

Photographed on 9 October 2002

 


Nova Scotia: Plaque on 1849 Pony Express monument

Photographed on 13 June 2003

 


Nova Scotia: 1849 Pony Express monument with ferry departing

Photographed on 9 October 2002

The ferry departs on its daily run between Digby and Saint John

 


Nova Scotia: 1849 Pony Express monument with ferry at dock

Photographed on 13 June 2003

The Digby-Saint John ferry is docked at its Digby terminal

 


Nova Scotia Pony Express 1849: map showing location of monument
Map showing the location of the 1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express monument
in Victoria Beach, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia

Roads are shown as they were in 1978. Except for Highway 101, the

layout of the roads in 2008 has not changed much from that shown here.

 

Links to Relevant Websites


The 1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express

 


The Pony Express Plaque Installed in 1949
100th Anniversary

 


Halifax Express
The Novascotian, 26 February 1849

 


Halifax Express
The British Colonist, 10 March 1849

 


Halifax Express
The Acadian Recorder, 10 March 1849

 


The Second Run of the Nova Scotia Pony Express
8 March 1849

 


Nova Scotia Pony Express 1849, by John Regan
5 January 1912

 


Nova Scotia Pony Express 1849, by George Mullane
1 January 1914

 


Nova Scotia Pony Express 1849, by Murrille Schofield
1973

 


Nova Scotia Pony Express, by D. A. MacNeill
April 1940

 


Nova Scotia Pony Express, by CBC Radio
11 June 1999

 


The Cunard Steamship fleet, 1849

These ships brought the news carried by the Pony Express

 


The Oregon Boundary dispute, 1849
Britain and USA close to war

Pony Express was the fastest link carrying breaking news to U.S.A.

 


Pony Express Editorial in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald
15 February 1999

 


Nova Scotia Pony Express
Digby Courier, 27 January 1999

 

History of the Nova Scotia Pony Express

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/langtved/pony.htm