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Title: Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Nova Scotia Historical Society. cn
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Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia Historical Society
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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CAPTAIN GEORGE PIERS, 1830-1910. Commanding Chebucto Greys Company, Halifax Volunteer Battalion. (In full-dress uniform adopted in 1865: rifle-green with red facings.) From a photograph taken about 1868.
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LT. GENERAL SIR CHARLES HASTINGS DOYLE, 1805-1883.Appointed to Command the Forces in Nova Scotia in 1861. (From a Photograph.) THE MILITIA OF NOVA SCOTIA, 1749-1867. 103 to the latter that a large proportion of that number wereengaged in maritime pursuits. The volunteers continued in good form in the city of Halifax,but throughout the province their efficiency was subjected to arigid test, a high standard being insisted on; only twenty-twoefficient companies were reported in existence on 31st December,1864; within a few months several of these were disbanded.Authority for the raising^of seventeen more had been given andcommissions issued to the officers: but for one reason or anotherthey failed to organize. In February, 1865, a special militia court was convened.It was composed of twenty-one officers, chiefly Lieut.-Colonelsin command of regiments, and spent a week in deliberating onmeasures for the improvement of the force. It made severalinteresting and important suggestions, some o

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