^{FN1 Ch25} Edith Morley, The Life and Times of Henry Crabb Robinson (London: Dent, 1935), p. 122-3. Incidentally, The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened in 1830. (George Macaulay Trevelyan, Shortened History of England (Penguin, 1960), p. 581.) Incidently, William Huskisson (1770-1830) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the world's first reported railway casualty as he was run over by Stephenson's locomotive engine, Rocket.

^{FN2 Ch25} George Macaulay Trevelyan, English Social History (Toronto: Longmans & Green, 1946), p. 532.

^{FN3 Ch25} Annie Wallace, "The History of the Nova Scotia Railway," NSHR, #6:2, p. 68.

^{FN4 Ch25} Wallace, p. 69.

^{FN5 Ch25} Wm. Lawson Grant, The Tribune of Nova Scotia (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook; 1921), p. 118.

^{FN6 Ch25} Wallace, "The History of the Nova Scotia Railway," NSHR, #6:2, pp. 69-70.

^{FN7 Ch25} Wallace, p. 70.

^{FN8 Ch25} DCB, Tupper.