Old Halifax

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by JET

http://yourrailwaypictures.com/OldDi...-electric.html
Interesting site about trams and streetcars. The first few shots are of Halifax, including a couple of the Simpsons store.

Thanks for that. The tram-car pics remind me that Halifax was urban before urban was cool! lol

Trying to pinpoint which part of Oakland Road that trolley was on.

My favourite pic is the one by Zellers. I think I saw that pic on the archives or somewhere similar:

[OldDartmouthMark]

Here's a neat pic of the Dennis Building before the additional floors were added on:



Source: http://www.dennisbuilding.ca/why-keep-it/

[someone123]

I'm thinking I might have posted this previously, but here's a picture of the St. Paul's parish house from the Noticed in Nova Scotia blog (http://halifaxbloggers.ca/noticedinnovascotia). Parts of this building were reused in the new offices that replaced it. It's strange that the nicest building on this block was torn down while some smaller wooden buildings survived.

[fenwick16]

It is too bad that such a building was torn down.

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by fenwick16

It is too bad that such a building was torn down.

Kills me every time I think about it.

Great pic, though!

[Drybrain]

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Kills me every time I think about it.

And yet we've still got buildings like the Dennis and the Green Lantern endangered. That kills me even more--at least we can write off these older losses as the product of the times.

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by Drybrain

And yet we've still got buildings like the Dennis and the Green Lantern endangered. That kills me even more--at least we can write off these older losses as the product of the times.

So true, so true....

[kph06]

Mac Mackay over at Shipfax knows virtually everything that has ever happened in the harbour and has the photo archives to tell the stories. Recently he has been posting a lot of his old photos which sometimes give a glimpse of the Halifax skyline of days past.

Last weekend he posted this photo, second image (I posted a link rather than the image itself as his site is a great read and I don't want to take away from his hits) of an old coaster, but shows Fenwick under construction in the back. This may be the first decent photo I have seen of Fenwick under construction.

[fenwick16]

I am not sure if this was posted previously. It is a collection of film clips from 1917 - 1957 at this link - http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtua...films.asp?ID=8

Scene 7 at the end of the collection of film clips is interesting. I believe it must be the clip from 1917 since I don't see any cars, just horse carriages. It is interesting seeing the horse carriages and so many people riding bicycles on the city streets.

[OldDartmouthMark]

Stumbled across these Halifax pics on Hemmings.com. I think some mayb have already been posted somewhere on this site, but some haven't. Larger versions available at the link below.

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/t...x-nova-scotia/

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by someone123

I'm thinking I might have posted this previously, but here's a picture of the St. Paul's parish house from the Noticed in Nova Scotia blog (http://halifaxbloggers.ca/noticedinnovascotia). Parts of this building were reused in the new offices that replaced it. It's strange that the nicest building on this block was torn down while some smaller wooden buildings survived.

I happened to walk by the present site recently and snapped these photos of the left side (facing) of the façade, or what remains of it anyways:

[OldDartmouthMark]

Came across the following pic on the NS archives site, of the Metropolitan Livery Stables, located at 118 Hollis St. in Halifax.



http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtua...lbum.asp?ID=94

It's an interesting shot, showing the typical style of building in Halifax in the 1800s - mostly wooden or masonry structures built closely together. A peek into the way we used to get around, with horse and buggies waiting by the stables and rails for the horse-driven tramway visible in the dirt road surface (along with some "road apples"). Also notable are the granite curbs, which I remember seeing in recent years but can't recall if any still exist.

So, of course, I had to find out where this was located, as sometime in the last century and a half Hollis Street was renumbered to a 4-digit format.

Back to the NS Archives again, where I remembered the 1878 Atlas existed in digital form. So... hmmm... where is 118 Hollis?

There it is, with Metropolitan Stables even labeled on the atlas:


http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtua...ives.asp?ID=40

So... it would be just north of the extension of Blowers St., if it extended to Hollis.

A quick check on Google Maps reveals the location to be around the circled area:



Which in street view is here, right next to Metro Park:


https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.64551...7i13312!8i6656

A little further research was necessary... what exactly is a livery stable? Well, luckily for me, Ziobrop already did the research and posted it in his excellent blog:

http://halifaxbloggers.ca/builthalif...es-of-halifax/

So we have come full circle... the Metropolitan Stable, which essentially served as a parking garage for horses and carriages was located right next to Metro Park... how neat is that?

Next time you walk by or park in Metro Park, think of this photo and about how little we have changed over the last century and a half....

Edit: Thought I was done...

Went back to the archives and saw this ad:


http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtua...lbum.asp?ID=95

So... it looks like they also offered horses and carriages for hire, kind of like a modern-day taxi or rent-a-car service. Learned something else today...

[Keith P.]

Here is an interesting old pic uploaded by Facebook user Eric Lewis of the construction of the Ocean Terminals.



If you go to my direct link on Photobucket you can see it in full resolution.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...psysxmhvoj.jpg

[ILoveHalifax]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

Here is an interesting old pic uploaded by Facebook user Eric Lewis of the construction of the Ocean Terminals.



If you go to my direct link on Photobucket you can see it in full resolution.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...psysxmhvoj.jpg

Great pic. Such a shame that they did not stop building roads at that time or widening roads as some want to do today

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

Here is an interesting old pic uploaded by Facebook user Eric Lewis of the construction of the Ocean Terminals.

If you go to my direct link on Photobucket you can see it in full resolution.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...psysxmhvoj.jpg

Do you know what year the photo was taken?

A nice addition to the photo is Ziobrop's excellent blog on the subject:

http://halifaxbloggers.ca/builthalif...ean-terminals/

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Do you know what year the photo was taken?

A nice addition to the photo is Ziobrop's excellent blog on the subject:

http://halifaxbloggers.ca/builthalif...ean-terminals/

No date was given. Since there is no sign of the Nova Scotian Hotel in the pic, which opened in 1930, I would guess this was taken in the early to mid 1920s. But that is just a guess.

[Colin May]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

No date was given. Since there is no sign of the Nova Scotian Hotel in the pic, which opened in 1930, I would guess this was taken in the early to mid 1920s. But that is just a guess.

Look at the sewer outlets impacts on the water surface

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

No date was given. Since there is no sign of the Nova Scotian Hotel in the pic, which opened in 1930, I would guess this was taken in the early to mid 1920s. But that is just a guess.

I think you're in the right range, as the long temporary train station is visible in the pic. It was finished in 1918 and continued until the new trainstation/hotel was built.

The CNR opted to locate a temporary new passenger station in the Halifax Ocean Terminal project at the south end of the city that fall and on 22 December 1918, the Maritime Express departed for the first time from the new (temporary) south end station.[2] The station was a long, single-story brick structure. Although considered "temporary", it operated for ten years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifa...Nova_Scotia%29

Also it looks like piers 20-22 are under construction, which again puts it in that time frame.

[Keith P.]

Another from Eric Lewis on Facebook. This would appear to be from the 1950s. Interesting to see the empty shell south of the Bell Building.

Given the condition of this area back then, especially above Barrington, it is easier to understand why urban renewal was seen as necessary. Also it is very difficult to see many east-west streets aside from Duke.



Direct link: http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...psk0amrco6.jpg

[Keith P.]

Eric Lewis continues to post a treasure trove of old photos on Facebook in the OLD Black and White Pictures of Halifax thread. Here is one of the rail cut under construction. Young Avenue bridge in the immediate background with a temporary bridge over Tower Road in the far background. Fascinating.

This pic illustrates an issue involved in the concept of constructing an elevated roadway above the tracks. There appears to be insufficient clearance overhead, at least in this area, for such a project.




Direct link to full-res: http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps4yqaocfs.jpg