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Vessels registered in the various ports of Nova Scotia on September 30, 1857
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| Vessels | Tonnage | Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| number | $ | ||
| Years | |||
| 1857 | 1,994 | 183,697 | 6,731,080 |
| 1858 | 2,107 | 185,080 | 6,471,780 |
| 1859 | * | * | * |
| 1860 | 3,118 | 234,743 | 6,096,780 |
| 1861 | 3,258 | 248,061 | 6,487,490 |
| 1862 | 3,408 | 277,718 | 7,417,805 |
| 1863 | 3,539 | 309,554 | 8,965,959 |
| 1864 | 3,718 | 365,503 | 11,392,857 |
| 1865 | 3,898 | 403,409 | I3,347,509 |
| Vessels | Tonnage | Value | |
| number | $ | ||
| Ports | |||
| Annapolis | 45 | 7,083 | 308,000 |
| Arichat | 306 | 20,137 | 515,144 |
| Baddeck | 8 | 388 | 10,668 |
| Digby | 208 | 16,909 | 556,862 |
| Guysborough | 66 | 3,304 | 77,342 |
| Halifax | 1,728 | 104,834 | 2,845,316 |
| Liverpool | 154 | 15,062 | 771,150 |
| Lunenburg | 178 | 8,346 | 357,488 |
| Parrsborough | 93 | 10,183 | 339,484 |
| Pictou | 165 | 33,695 | 1,037,560 |
| Port Hawkesbury | 40 | 2,561 | 76,852 |
| Pugwash | 15 | 2,108 | 71,070 |
| Shelburne | 83 | 13,081 | 673,900 |
| Sydney | 109 | 7,416 | 304,130 |
| Windsor | 298 | 63,640 | 2,223,488 |
| Yarmouth | 402 | 94,662 | 3,179,055 |
| Total | 3,898 | 403,409 | 13,347,509 |
| * Not printed this year. | |||
| Note: The increase in the shipping owned in Nova Scotia, as shown in the former of the above tables, is really astonishing. The Province has doubled its tonnage in eight years. Part of this increase is indeed fictitious, because some of the ships wrecked, broken up, or sent abroad, have not been struck off the registry–an omission which the Government are now taking steps to remedy, so that the returns of next year will be correct–but deducting even 10 per cent, from this account, there remain as owned in the Province 3,508 vessels, with a tonnage of 363,068 tons, valued at $11,976,758. | |||
| Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1867. | |||
