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2. Samuel Cunard - Wikipedia

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   Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America. [1]

3. Cunard Line - Wikipedia

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   Cunard offered Parry a fortnightly service beginning in May 1840. While Cunard did not then own a steamship, he had been an investor in an earlier steamship venture, Royal William, and owned coal mines in Nova Scotia. [13] Cunard's major backer was Robert Napier whose Robert Napier and Sons was the Royal Navy's supplier of steam engines. [17]

4. Abraham Cunard - Wikipedia

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   Abraham Cunard (1756 – January 10, 1824) was a United Empire Loyalist carpenter, timber merchant, and ship owner from Halifax, Nova Scotia, best known as the father of shipping magnate Samuel Cunard.

5. RMS Scotia - Wikipedia

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   Scotia was a British passenger liner operated by the Cunard Line that won the Blue Riband in 1863 for the fastest westbound transatlantic voyage. She was the last oceangoing paddle steamer, and as late as 1874 she made Cunard's second fastest voyage. Laid up in 1876, Scotia was converted to a twin-screw cable layer in 1879.

6. RMS Scythia - Wikipedia

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   In 1950 she became a passenger ship again, sailing from Britain to Canada and later to New York. Again in 1957 the Scythia was used to transport Hungarian refugees to Canada (departed Southampton England 19 Jan 1957), landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia at Pier 21 (Canada's equivalent to Ellis Island in New York). Her final route was around the ...

7. File:Statue of Samuel Cunard in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada ...

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   2006-12-25 19:53 Bryson109 1524×2000× (531921 bytes) A statue of Samuel Cunard, near Pier 21 on Halifax waterfront, Samuel Cunard, was born 1787 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Picture taken on 25 December 2006 by [[User:Bryson109|Bryson109]] (myself).

8. Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Wikipedia

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   In 1902, a memorial to Haliburton and his first wife was erected in Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia, by four of their children: Laura Cunard, Lord Haliburton, and two surviving sisters. [citation needed] Nova Scotian artist William Valentine painted Haliburton's portrait.

9. RMS Mauretania (1906) - Wikipedia

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   A large builder's model, showing Mauretania in her white cruising paint scheme, is displayed in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic's Cunard exhibit in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Originally a model of Lusitania, it was converted to represent Mauretania after Lusitania was torpedoed. [49]