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* [http://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/en/AGNS_Halifax/AboutUs/collection/permanentcollection/collection_highlights/Shipping_at_Low_Tide.aspx Shippling at Low Tide, Halifax, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia] |
* [http://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/en/AGNS_Halifax/AboutUs/collection/permanentcollection/collection_highlights/Shipping_at_Low_Tide.aspx Shippling at Low Tide, Halifax, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia] |
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* [http://www.erudit.org/culture/cd1035538/cd1042789/8106ac.pdf Montreal] |
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Revision as of 06:41, 20 February 2015
John Poad Drake (1794–1883) was an inventor and artist from Stoke Damerel, Devonshire. He worked at the Plymouth Dockyard. He later painted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Montreal and New York. He later returned to England and patented a new system for drilling screws at the shipyard.
Gallery
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Sampson Salter Blowers, Nova Scotia Court House
Links
References
- Drake, John Poad. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 15.
- Mechanic's Magazine, lxvii. 242, 251–4, 393, 422, 493–5, 538, lxviii. 107, 181, 228, 542, 609, lxix. 61;
- Artisan, May 1852, March 1854;
- Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, xv. 113
- Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornub. p. 1160