The Canadian Almanac, and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1869

The Canadian Almanac, and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1869
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2017-12-22
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780484437783

Excerpt from The Canadian Almanac, and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1869: Being the First After Leap Year, Containing Full and Authentic Commercial, Statistical, Astronomical, Departmental, Ecclesiastical, Educational, Financial, and General Information These pages are calculated for Toronto, Quebec, Fredericton and Halifax', and for ordinary purposes will serve with sufficient accuracy for every city in the Dominion Of Canada. Moon's Pawns - This Table gives the times for the four meridians when' the moon passes the geocentric longitudes Of 180° and 270° east of the sun. It gives also the times of her greatest and least distance from the earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

The Canadian Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1869 Being the First After Leap Year Containing Full and Authentic Commercial, St

The Canadian Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1869 Being the First After Leap Year Containing Full and Authentic Commercial, St
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Publisher: Alpha Edition
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2020-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789354049996

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: F. Martin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230252990

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Diary of a Country Clergyman 1848-1851

Diary of a Country Clergyman 1848-1851
Author: James Reid
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2000-04-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0773568131

A crusty yet diffident Scot, James Reid began his career as a sectarian evangelical missionary. The diary finds him thirty years later as a moderate, if conservative, Anglican clergyman. Through this remarkable document, village routines and intrigues, as well as Reid's circle of friends and his clerical colleagues, come vividly to life. His private reflections on the tensions and growing pains experienced by the colonial church at a formative stage in its evolution, and his reaction to events on the wider political scene, give us valuable insights into his life and the times. Reid was a man of considerable complexity and his foibles and vanities are apparent in his narrative. The glimpses of his home life shed much light on gender relations and the history of the family. The diary has been edited and annotated by M.E. Reisner, who provides the background to Reid's narrative. Her informative biographical sketches, collected in an appendix, shed further light on representative local figures and the community dynamics of his town. The Diary of a Country Clergyman will be of interest to the general reader and social historian alike.

The Discovery of Weather

The Discovery of Weather
Author: Jerry Lockett
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1459500814

In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters in England struggled with the scientific establishment for recognition and vied with astrologers and other charlatans for public acceptance. One of the voices in this struggle was Stephen Saxby, a British naval instructor who thought he had found a sure-fire way of forecasting storms. He championed a popular but somewhat eccentric theory that weather disturbances are linked to stages in the moon's orbit of the earth. Saxby got lucky. One of his well-known long-range predictions--for a serious storm on October 4, 1869--was right on the button. On that very day, a deadly hurricane caused massive floods along the eastern seaboard of the United States then barrelled ashore at the Canadian border. The timing of the storm could hardly have been worse. Coinciding with an extremely high tide, the resulting storm surge breached centuries-old dykes at the head of the Bay of Fundy. In The Discovery of Weather, author Jerry Lockett traces the early days of weather forecasting, the background to Saxby's prediction, and the drama of the storm itself.