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Old Posted Nov 25, 2022, 5:46 PM
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^Saint John is still the closest we have to an American city, in its historical trajectory.
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Old Posted Nov 25, 2022, 5:57 PM
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Alexandra Bridge, Ottawa. Slightly different angles. Early 1900s vs present day.




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Alexandra Bridge, Ottawa. Slightly different angles. Early 1900s vs present day.
Thanks for that. I recall thinking the boardwalk was a later addition to the original bridge! Didn't realize it was there, as with the other side of the support structure, and also wasn't aware it was used by trains.

I've walked across it to get to the Quebec side but never driven over it.
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A few from FB.

Water Street sometime prior to 1947 (chip shop changed signs or something then).



Same period:



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1930 (St. John's used horse and Newfoundland Dog-pulled carts into the 1960s, though obviously uncommon in the last couple decades of that period - but we've photographic proof it did exist):



Still the only province (Quebec is a distant second) where talk radio is king, and probably one of the only places in the world where it's leftist lol





And a few of that building, the old Bank of Montreal building (we had a major bank crash in 1894 and foreign banks, mostly Canadian, came to our rescue and set up shop here. Bank of Montreal and Bank of Nova Scotia were the most important - Montreal took all the urban settlements, and Nova Scotia had a branch in every outport).













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Thanks for that. I recall thinking the boardwalk was a later addition to the original bridge! Didn't realize it was there, as with the other side of the support structure, and also wasn't aware it was used by trains.

I've walked across it to get to the Quebec side but never driven over it.
Yup, it served all modes of transportation at one point. Even the Hull Electric Streetcar crossed it, with a station under the side of the Chateau Laurier and turning loop under the Plaza Bridge (now a bike rental shop).
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Old Posted Dec 6, 2022, 5:37 PM
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I think this has resurfaced before but a while ago the NS archives put a 1957 tourism video of Halifax up on YouTube. It has a lot of interesting shots including aerial views. It is "peak old Halifax"; a lot of this changed by 1970 or 1980.

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No modern highrises at that time.
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That was absolutely incredible.

Those working wharves downtown added a lot.
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No, seriously. Bumping this one. You have to watch the video. The crowds on Barrington Street, blocks above giant fish being loaded into trucks on the docks. What a legible society. The workings of things were all visible. I wouldn't know where such a fish would be handled in contemporary Halifax. It's like looking at the movement of an automatic watch through a glass caseback.
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A few shots from FB, apparently from a National Film Board of Canada documentary from planning the TCH across Newfoundland after Confederation.

Presumably (EDIT: nope, it's Pleasant Street) Hamilton Avenue in the Old West End/Riverhead?





Definitely the Old West End here. This area was brutalized. You see that church on the middle-right side? That's George Street United. It's one of the only surviving buildings in that photo. This is where the highway interchange and most of our taller buildings are now. My house is somewhere around here, but the street arrangement has changed so much between me and the church that I can't trace it back If I had to guess, I'd say that main diagonal street on the upper right, the one whose right-side buildings are in shadow, is the old Barter's Hill before it was changed into a kind of wide switchback to minimize the incline (bulldozing half the houses around it). IF that's correct, then my house would be out of view somewhere to the right of that, with the central courtyard of one of those housing blocks being the park behind me now.



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^ Great photos, it looks pretty grimy, with dark colours that wouldn't show the soot. Small correction - that's George Street United (b.1873), but you know that, just similar names.

That looks like the early 50s.
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Oh yes, of course! Also, I think what I guessed was Hamilton is actually Pleasant.
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^ I can remember some of it, this is one of my favorite photos, Brazil Square I think.
BTW George Street is the oldest existing Methodist Church there.


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I think this has resurfaced before but a while ago the NS archives put a 1957 tourism video of Halifax up on YouTube. It has a lot of interesting shots including aerial views. It is "peak old Halifax"; a lot of this changed by 1970 or 1980.

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Great stuff! Thanks for posting this.
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