Fonds Acc2286 - Charlottetown Gas Light Company fonds

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Charlottetown Gas Light Company fonds

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CA PCA Acc2286

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  • 1855-1858, 1870, 1896 (Creation)
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    Charlottetown Gas Light Company

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.03 m of textual records

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Charlottetown Gas Light Company (1853-1898)

Administrative history

The Charlottetown Gas Light Company was incorporated on 16 April 1853 to supply the inhabitants of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, with gas light. A year later, a waterfront plant on the city's eastern edge began supplying gas to some 60 houses. In 1859 the company erected the first 11 gas street lamps on Queen and Grafton Streets and continued to add new lamps until by 1879, there were 125 throughout the city.

The Charlottetown Gas Light Company enjoyed a monopoly on supplying lighting for the city until 1885 when it lost the contract to the Royal Electric Company of Montreal, Quebec. With the loss of its major client, the Charlottetown Gas Light Company went into decline and ceased operations in 1898. Its assets were purchased by the Charlottetown Light and Power Company.

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This fonds consists of a day book of the Charlottetown Gas Light Company spanning the years 1855-1858. Information includes the date, the amount of cash received for gas light services, the name of the client, the amount of wages made to employees, and various other financial transactions of the company. Also in the fonds are three share certificates from the company, one dated 1870 and two dated 1896.

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  • English

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NO RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

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PERMISSION FOR USE AND REPRODUCTION IS REQUIRED FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OFFICE; QUESTIONS REGARDING COPYRIGHT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER

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NO FURTHER FINDING AID AVAILABLE

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Information for the administrative history is taken from "'A Lamp to Light their Paths': Lightening the Streets of Charlottetown" by Harry Holman in "Gaslights, Epidemics, and Vagabond Cows", Douglas Baldwin and Thomas Spira, editors.

SEE ALSO: Acc2653/7; Acc2881/508-512; Acc3353/1; Acc3466/HF76.167/1-4; and Acc3964/3-13.

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Item # 4 is oversize

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The three share certificates were originally in Acc2292

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