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Nova Scotia Light and Power Company, Limited (NSLP) was an electric and gas utility company with its head office in Halifax, Canada. The company still exists as a shell but is no longer active; however, for more than a century, it was the major producer of energy in the province of Nova Scotia, and its largest public transit operator. ==Origins== NSLP marked as its origin June 11, 1866 and the inauguration of street railway services in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the Halifax City Railroad Company (HCR).〔NSLP Annual Report, 1966. The date is somewhat arbitrary, likely chosen for its public relations value in the year before the country’s much-anticipated 1967 centennial. HCR was only one of several component parts of NSLP, and was actually chartered in 1863.〕 However, the antecedents of the company go back even farther, to March, 1840 and the charter of the Halifax Gas Light and Water Company, later renamed the Halifax Gas Light Company (HGL).〔Bye laws, rules and ordinances, of the Halifax Gas Light and Water Company. In Public Archives of Nova Scotia.〕 The company's directors included Edward Cunard, third son of shipping magnate Samuel Cunard.〔Full text of "Act of incorporation, and acts in amendment thereof, and bye-laws, rules & ordinances of the Halifax Gas Light Company ()"〕 By 1843, HGL was producing coal gas and distributing it via underground pipes to 281 stores and businesses in downtown Halifax.〔NSLP Annual Report, 1950〕 Halifax businessman William D. O’Brien chartered HCR in 1863, beginning operations three years later with five horse-drawn tram cars. HCR suspended operations after ten years; but in 1886 a new company, the Halifax Street Railway Company, purchased the remaining HCR assets and resumed horse-powered operations.〔Canadian Railroad Historical Association Bulletin 17 (1954) http://www.exporail.org/can_rail/Canadian%20Rail_CRHA_Bulletin_no17_April_1954.pdf〕 In 1885, Halifax industrialist John Starr launched the Halifax Electric Light Company (limited), opening the city’s first electric generation plant, a 70 kW facility located at Black’s Wharf, near the corner of Lower Water and Prince Streets. Two years later, HGL purchased Starr's firm.〔Industrial Canada, May, 1967 http://web.archive.org/web/20060111095136/http://www.lib.uwo.ca/business/ccc-novascotialight.htm〕 In 1889, a group of investors including Charles Annand, publisher of the Morning Chronicle newspaper, founded the Nova Scotia Power Company, Limited, taking over street railway operations with the intention of electrifying them; however, the firm was undercapitalized and was unable to build a generating station.〔Industrial Canada, May, 1967 http://web.archive.org/web/20060111095136/http://www.lib.uwo.ca/business/ccc-novascotialight.htm〕 In 1893, Halifax lawyer Benjamin Franklin Pearson launched a second gas-producing firm, the People’s Heat and Light Company. In 1897, the company took over HGL.〔Industrial Canada, May, 1967 http://web.archive.org/web/20060111095136/http://www.lib.uwo.ca/business/ccc-novascotialight.htm〕 Pearson, with significant holdings in the Nova Scotia coal industry, saw the future in electric power and with three partners incorporated the Halifax Electric Tramway Company Limited on March 20, 1895.〔Marchildon,G.P., “PEARSON, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pearson_benjamin_franklin_14E.html〕 The company took over the operations of the Nova Scotia Power Company and then, in 1902, the People’s Heat and Light Company. In 1917, the consolidated company became Nova Scotia Tramways and Power Company Limited; finally, in 1928, the company was reorganized as Nova Scotia Light and Power Company, Limited.〔Industrial Canada, May, 1967 http://web.archive.org/web/20060111095136/http://www.lib.uwo.ca/business/ccc-novascotialight.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nova Scotia Light and Power」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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