APPENDIX B III 
Brown’s Almanac.—Halifax tide tables—Messrs. J. Brown & Son, 
Glasgow. 
Belcher’s Almanac.—Halifax tide tables.—The McAlpine Co., Halifax. 
Cogswell’s Almanac.—Halifax; time only.—Mr. R. H. Cogswell, Halifax. 
MeMillan’s Almanac.—St. John ; time only.—Messrs. J. & A. McMillan, 
St. John. 
Moore’s Tide Tables.—Quebec; time only.—Messrs. T. J. Moore & Co., 
Quebec. 
The Quebec Chronicle.—Quebec tides tables in full; one month at a time. 
The St. John Telegraph.—St. John tides tables in full ; one month at a 
time. 
It was arranged to have these tide tables reprinted from Green- 
wood’s Almanac, as a neat pamphlet ; and 450 copies of this were widely 
distributed. This is a step in advance of last year’s publication. It 
served to make these tide tables more widely known, and it also enabled 
all applications for copies of the tables to be met. 
The other tide tables issued were as follows:— 
Charlottetown, Pictou, and St. Paul Island—Accompanied by tidal 
differences for Northumberland Strait, and the south-western side of 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence. These tide tables were computed by the 
Tidal Survey and printed by the Department ; and 350 copies were dis- 
tributed as widely as possible. 
Father Point—Prepared in manuscript only ; and posted at the 
Lighthouse at Father Point. As this is the Pilot Station for the Lower 
St. Lawrence, they are there accessible to the pilots. 
Ste. Croix Bar.—Tide tables were again computed for this locality, 
as it is still the shallowest point in the tidal portion of the St. Lawrence 
above Quebec, pending the completion of the dredging operations. These 
tables were published in company with the tide tables for Quebec, by 
the Montreal Harbour Commissioners ; in the publication they prepare 
annually for the information of the St. Lawrence pilots. 
At this stage in the work of the Tidal Survey a complete series of 
comparisons has been made, to ascertain how far an improvement in the 
accuracy of the tide tables for our principal harbours has been already 
secured by this Survey, when compared with other sources of in- 
formation. 
Before this Survey was begun, the only information available for 
the ports of Quebec, Halifax, St. John, N.B., Charlottetown and Pictou, 
was that given by such tide tables as were published locally; which were 
roughly computed from Ports of Reference in Europe. To ascertain 
the improvement secured and the degree of accuracy of the tide tables 
