Nova Scotia Postal History - 3 December 1891 - BATTERY HILL (Pictou County), N.S. (split ring / broken circle cancel / postmark) to Pictou, Pictou County, Nova Scotia

BATTERY HILL (Lansdowne) Pictou County - this community is located near the headwaters of the Middle River in North central Nova Scotia. It was originally called Battery Hill but in 1884 by Act of the Provincial Legislature the name was changed to Lansdowne. This was most likely done in honor of the then Governor-General of Canada, the Marquis of Lansdowne.

- from "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada (1908)" - (Battery Hill) LANSDOWNE STATION, a post Village in Pictou County, N.S., on the East River, and a station on the I.C.R. (Glengarry), 12 miles west of Stellarton. It has 1 Presbyterian church, 1 store, 1 hotel, and 2 mills (lumber and corn and feed). The population in 1908 was 150.

The Postal Way Office at BATTERY HILL opened - 1 July 1865 and closed - 1 October 1870. The BATTERY HILL Post Office opened - 1 April 1882 - changed name to Lansdowne Station - 1 October 1897 and closed - 17 July 1968 owing to the provision of rural mail delivery service via Westville RR No. 2.

In 1897 authority was given to change the name of the post office to Lansdowne Station and move it closer to the railway station.

LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the BATTERY HILL Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...

- sent from - / BATTERY - HILL / DE 3 / 91 / N.S. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer was proofed - 25 June 1882 - (NS-276 / RF D).

- arrived at - / PICTOU • N.S. / AM / DE 4 / 91 / CANADA. / - cds arrival backstamp - this cds hammer was proofed - 9 December 1883 / (NS-4151 / RF B).

Message on back of postcard reads: Lansdowne / Dec 4th 1891 - Mr. McDonald, Sir, Your letter to hand - will be down first of next week. Yours Respectively / M. McKay

This Canada Post Card was addressed to: E. M. McDonald / Barrister / Pictou, Pictou County / Nova Scotia

EDWARD MORTIMER MACDONALD, lawyer, politician, and memoirist; b. 16 Aug. 1865 in Pictou, N.S., son of John Duncan McDonald and Mary Isabel (Isabella) MacLaren; m. there 10 July 1889 Edith Lillian Ives (d. 23 May 1941), and they had two sons and a daughter; d. there 25 May 1940.

Edward Mortimer Macdonald, born in the midst of the intense political struggle to keep Nova Scotia out of the British North American union, was named for his uncle Edward Mortimer McDonald*, a Pictou journalist and mp who was one of the principal anti-confederate leaders. Macdonald was heir to a tradition of reform going back to Edward Mortimer*, the merchant prince turned politician with whom his paternal grandfather, George, had been closely associated, and his liberalism was bred in the bone. Educated at Pictou Academy and at Dalhousie University in Halifax, where for two years he held one of the scholarships endowed by George Munro*, Macdonald graduated llb from Dalhousie law school in 1887 and was called to the bar of Nova Scotia that December. He would be made a kc in 1904.

MacDonald began electioneering in the Liberal interest even before he established his law practice in Pictou, and continued doing so until he entered municipal politics in 1892 as a county councillor, a post he would hold until 1897 and one that gave him good training in debate. He stood unsuccessfully for the provincial legislature in 1894 and for parliament two years later, before finally winning, in 1897, a seat in the House of Assembly, where he furthered his political education. He resigned in order to contest the federal election of 1900, lost again, but was returned immediately to the legislature in a by-election and retained his seat in 1901. In 1904 he ran federally for the third time and was victorious. The eight-year-old government of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier* was at its zenith, and the Liberals captured all 18 Nova Scotia seats; MacDonald was the first Liberal returned from Pictou since 1874. LINK to his complete biography - www.biographi.ca/en/bio/macdonald_edward_mortimer_16F.html

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