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Retrieval
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This
list of proprietors, farmers owning property between the dyke and the
river and the land on which the dyke itself was situated, follows from
the previous document and demonstrates the way in which the provincial
government gained control in the 1950s of the dykes that protected
the Tantramar marshes. Transferring title to the provincial government
meant that larger scale maintenance and development could be carried
out. This set of documents therefore represents a distinct break in
the management of the marshlands: from the microscale interests of
the Commissioners of Sewers that had dominated the marsh for almost
two centuries, to large scale, highly mechanized, capital intensive
work carried out through the Province of New Brunswick’s Maritime
Marshland Reclamation Commission and Department of Agriculture. |
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This
project was made possible -in part or entirely - through the Canadian
Culture Online Program of Canadian Heritage, the National Archives of
Canada and the Canadian Council of Archives. |
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