Yarmouth Line

YARMOUTH LINE

DIRECT SERVICE BE-

TWEEN YARMOUTH

AND BOSTON

The Land of Evangeline Route

STEEL STEAMSHIPS

PRINCE GEORGE and

PRINCE ARTHUR

The Shortest and Quickest Route

between points in Nova Scotia, New

Brunswick, Cape Breton, Prince

Edward Island, Newfoundland and

BOSTON

Running time between Yarmouth

and Boston about 17 hours

THE YARMOUTH LINE provides

most satisfactory service throughout the

entire year, its schedules being arranged

to answer the demands of travel at all

seasons

For staterooms and other information

apply to J.E. KINNEY, Supt.

Yarmouth N.S.

Boston & Yarmouth Steamship Co. Ltd.

And thus is the first ad in our tour of 1920's Halifax. Honestly, most of these ads are text only and I am too lazy to take pictures so unless it really makes the ad, I don't think I am going to bother. I will try to more or less stick to the text formatting. To some extent.

Boston & Yarmouth Steamship Co. was a subsidiary of Eastern Steamship Lines. That company was later part of Admiral Cruise Line and then later was taken over by Royal Carribean. So in essence, this company sorta still exists. You can see one of B&Y's pamphlets here. This one is from 1919. You can see a current picture here of the Boston Yarmouth building. Scroll to the bottom.

These days, you can't take a ship to or from Boston from anywhere in Nova Scotia. But you can fly from Boston to Halifax in about an hour and a half, and then if you really wanted to go to Yarmouth it is about a three hour drive. So you could round up and give yourself about 5 hours. Not too shabby.

As far as Mr. Kinney goes, (the guy you have to see about the tickets) I did Google that guy as well. It seems he gave a speech!

In the days of the sailing ships / J.E. Kinney. An address given at a mariners'
night entertainment, Zion Baptist Church School Room, Yarmouth, N.S., May
20,
1930. 22 x 28 cm., folded to 22 x 14 cm

I got this info from: http://www.westerncounties.ca/banks/misc.htm and it would appear to be a description of a pamphlet. Of course, we can't know for sure if it is the same dude, but hey. Same name. In Yarmouth. Giving a speech on ships. 10 years later. I would say it is a pretty safe bet.

It also seems likely the guy wrote a book:

J E KINNEY {CA} (?: ? - ?) The Port Of Yarmouth [Canada] And Its Development
[n1931]

But I can't really find out anything about that. And I am not going to Yarmouth to find out. Although I am now insanely curious.

Real cookery going on here, eh? Stay tuned next week when we discuss...insurance! Woo Hoo!