Here's an interesting photo of the northern end of downtown Halifax, probably taken in the 1940's. The foreground buildings are mostly still there but the ones higher up the hill were considered slums and were redeveloped:
One mildly annoying detail is that there used to be clear sight lines up Duke Street, the one on the left, to the ramparts of the Citadel. This view was blocked by a pedway.
Hard to make out but this one is an aerial of the Halifax peninsula from about 1920. The ocean terminals and under construction. Most of the peninsula itself is developed but there wasn't much development on the mainland.
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This one showed up in a "then and now" series. A little 6-storey office block that disappeared in the 1960's:
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Another building with small floorplates that bit the dust, this time around 1990. They are interesting but not very popular with tenants. I think this one might have been built for CN, and dated to around 1900-1910.
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