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Index of Subjects Patrick Kelly wrote: > I don't know if Kings County was ever spelled with an apostrophe. This > is consistent with a late-1800s map of the area around Galway that I > saw while in Ireland over the summer. In Ireland everything is > described with respect to the county, something you rarely see here. > Any way, the map showed County Kings to the east of County Galway. > Having spent lot of time preparing for the trip, I knew that modern > Ireland has no Co. Kings; it is now called Co. Westmeath, and I expect > it was renamed after the formation of the republic.... and since it is > west of Co. Meath… > > Last year I purchased the reprint of the Historical Atlas of the > Maritime Provinces 1878, (Nimbus Publishing). It has Kings and Queens > for the counties in N.S. N.B., and P.E.I. and Hants, also without an > apostrophe. (One oddity about the map that I have found is that there > are communities of Rawdon, Sth. Rawdon, and Upr. Rawdon, yet the > district around them is called Randon. I am guessing it is a typo… It > is also interesting that Kings County only had three districts > (Aylesford, Cornwallis, and Horton) while Hants County has ten > (Douglas, Falmouth, Kempt, Maitland, Newport, Rawdon, Shubenacadie, > Uniacke, Walton, and Windsor). > > Hi Patrick & All, Oct 11, 2006 There was at least some usage of King's County (NS) in the early 1900s, as in Eaton's 1910 History of Kings County. Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville > > > > > > > > > > > > > ========================================================================== > > Patrick Kelly > Director of Computer Facilities > ========================================================================== > > Faculty of Architecture and Planning > Dalhousie University > ========================================================================== > > PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road > Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 > Canada Canada > ========================================================================== > > Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca > ========================================================================== > > >
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