NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS 



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NELSON 



an active part in securing the adoption of the 

 Law by the returned exiles, held a great feast 

 at the dedication of the walls of the city and 

 contended for the strict observance of legal 

 rites. He emphasized churchly rather than na- 

 tional issues. 



NEIGHBORHOOD, na'berhood, CENTERS. 

 See COMMUNITY INTERESTS. 



NELSON, a city in the southeastern part of 

 British Columbia, the capital and largest city 

 of the Kootenay district. It is located on the 

 west arm of Kootenay Lake, which is navigated 

 by steamers running to Kasle, Kootenay Land- 

 ing and other points. The city is also served 

 by the Spokane line of the Great Northern 

 Railway and by several branches of the Cana- 

 dian Pacific Railway, one of which connects 

 with the Kettle Valley Railway at Midway. 

 Midway is 127 miles west of Nelson, Vancouver 

 is 513 miles west and Spokane is 199 miles 

 southeast. From Nelson to Revelstoke, on the 

 main line of the Canadian Pacific, is a distance 

 of 184 miles by rail and steamer. Kootenay 

 Landing, the western terminus of the Crow's 

 Nest branch of the Canadian Pacific, is sixty 

 miles southeast by steamer. Population in 191 1 , 

 4,476; in 1916, estimated, with suburbs, 7,500. 



Nelson is the commercial center of the Koo- 

 tenay country, a section noted for minerals, 

 lumber and fruits. The mines of this district 

 produce gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and other 

 minerals to a value of $20,000,000 a year. The 

 chief industrial establishments of the city pro- 

 duce iron, cigars, jam, soda water, marble, mat- 

 tresses, boxes and boats. Saw and shingle mills 

 are conspicuous both in the city and in the 

 iiborhood. Nelson is a division point on 

 I!M- Canadian Pacific, and has railway repair 

 shops. The municipality owns the hydroelec- 

 tric light and power plant, gas and water sys- 

 tems, and the street railway. Not far away 

 are many places of scenic interest, including 

 iors, hot springs and cataracts, and there is 

 also an abundance of game birds and large 

 pine. 



NELSON, HORATIO (1758-1805), the most fa- 

 mous of British admirals, who, with his right 

 arm and his right eye gone, won the greatest 

 ory in English naval records. He was born 

 in Burnham-Thorpe, Norfolk, England, Sep- 

 tember 29, 1758 ; his father was rector in his na- 

 town, and his mother was a descendant of 

 tin- famous Walpole family. 



Though the boy was sickly and possessed 

 little end -. had an ambition to go to 



sea. So when his maternal uncle, Capt. Mau- 

 258 



rice Suckling, set sail for the Falkland Islands, 

 Horatio, who was only twelve years old and 

 had but little education, begged to be allowed 

 to accompany him. His uncle, though not ap- 

 proving of the plan, yielded; and it was to his 

 guidance that 

 Nelson owed the 

 excellence of his 

 early training. 



When fifteen 

 years old, he was 

 permitted to go 

 as coxswain on an 

 expedition to the 

 North Pole. A 

 trip a little later 

 to the West In- 

 dies resulted in a 

 fever, which left 

 his health serious- 



LORD NELSON 

 His signal at Trafalgar, 



i j . j "England expects every man 



ly undermined. to d * hls du ^. has inspired 



At nineteen, the British seamen for over a 



hundred years, 

 commission of 



second. lieutenant was given to him; in 1778 he 

 was made commander, and the following year 

 post captain. A cruise to Central America 

 brought on a second protracted illness and a 

 return to England. 



In 1783 Nelson was given command of the 

 Boreas, stationed in the West Indies, and he 

 served there until 1787. During this period he 

 disregarded the orders of his commander, Sir 

 Richard Hughes, who forbade him to enforce 

 the Navigation Laws against America. Though 

 this situation caused Nelson considerable 

 trouble and anxiety, he was later upheld by the 

 British government. While in the West Indies 

 he married the widow of Dr. Josiah Nisbet, 

 and his bride was given away by Prince Wil- 

 liam, England's future king. Shortly after- 

 wards Nelson was recalled from active service 

 and remained on the retired list until the out- 

 break of the war between England and France, 

 in 1793. Thru, in command of the Agamem- 

 non, he rejoined the Mediterranean fleet. He 

 was promptly sent to blockade the principal 

 strongholds of Corsica, and in the victories 

 which followed took an important though neces- 

 sarily subordinate part. At Calvi, on. of th. 

 blockaded ports, he received a wound which 

 deprived him of his right eye. 



Nelson next distinguished himself at the Bat- 

 tle of Cape Saint Vincent (1797) and was re- 

 warded by knight ho<Ml in the Order of the Bath . 

 just before this battle he had reached by i 

 lar promotion the rank of rear-admiral. II 



