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Exploring the built Environment in Halifax NS. from the Mind that brought you @hfxshippingnews

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Builthalifax.ca
Joined June 2013
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some of the oldest footage of crews responding to a fire, and there is some dumbass, in the way and oblivious.
Adam Bunch (@TODreamsProject) profile pictureAdam Bunch@TODreamsProject20 Apr 2023
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3. No one's sure how it started. Maybe faulty wiring or a stove. Whatever it was, the flames spread quickly. Soon, every firefighter in the city was desperately trying to contain the blaze. There's even footage—the oldest film we have of Toronto (via Library & Archives Canada):
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Great Thread.
Adam Bunch (@TODreamsProject) profile pictureAdam Bunch@TODreamsProject20 Apr 2023
1. On this night 119 years ago, Toronto burned. Here's a thread about The Great Fire of 1904 — and the strange, grisly tale of the one life it claimed...
Four men in Edwardian clothing stand on a pitched rooftop in the foreground with their backs to the camera. They look out toward the smoking ruins of brick buildings as far as we can see.

ALT Four men in Edwardian clothing stand on a pitched rooftop in the foreground with their backs to the camera. They look out toward the smoking ruins of brick buildings as far as we can see.

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Stick with it kids.
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Crappy day, but I found intact earthworks and building remains at the Purcell’s Cove HAA site
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The WWII Air defences of Halifax. builthalifax.ca/2023/01/13/w… This is a very rough post (images are massive, text incomplete)but to good not to share
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Anyone know where the WW I trenches in long lake park are?
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CBC has picked up the cogswell ruins story cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot…
Digging at Cogswell Interchange near downtown Halifax unearths buried British history | CBC News

Digging at Cogswell Interchange near downtown Halifax unearths buried British history | CBC News

The recent discovery of bricks, stone and mortar are believed to be from an old coal chute or coal port.

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SO there seem to be close to 400 new followers in the last 24hrs..
builtHFX (@builtHFX) profile picturebuiltHFX@builtHFX8 Sep 2022
Welcome to all the new followers. builthalifax.ca/ is a site that attempts to tell the history of the Built environment in Halifax. and explain what got built where and why. its a work in progress.
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I also run @HfxShippingNews, which tends to see more tweets then this account, so give it a follow too..
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Hi there, we believe this is a coal access port attached to approx. 6 metres of stone wall - a structure identified during excavations for a duct bank trench. -mc
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Welcome to all the new followers. builthalifax.ca/ is a site that attempts to tell the history of the Built environment in Halifax. and explain what got built where and why. its a work in progress.
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Also this was buried under cogswell..
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Went for a walk. Saw a bunch of hard hats staring into a hole. 2 possibilities - 1. Un marked utilities or 2.Buried old stuff:
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Last Fall, i found a section of the abandoned roadbed that led to the Narrows Bridge. builthalifax.ca/2018/01/31/t…
The First (and Second) Harbour Bridges

The First (and Second) Harbour Bridges

The first bridge spanning Halifax Harbour was a railway bridge constructed by the Intercolonial Railway at the Narrows. It was constructed between 1884-85 and was 650 feet long.   1889 Hopkins Map …

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This is fun. MVC reconstruction from 1917. note the horse. so should this be an EVC? E/MVC?
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Spring is in the air, which means one of the best weekends of the year is coming up. Save the date for Jane's Walk 2022! From May 7th-8th we'll explore our city via a series of citizen-led walking tours celebrating Jane Jacobs’ life and ideas. #JanesWalkHFX
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TDIH: (1863) The first covered skating rink in British North America opened in Halifax, at the Horticultural Gardens, known by Haligonians today as Public Gardens. cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot…

Like skating at the Oval? You would love what Halifax had 153 years ago | CBC News

Today in history, British North America's first covered skating rink opened its doors in Halifax.

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TY @HfxHeritage 4 giving me the curiosity bug on Octagon House. Also TY 2 @hfxgov Municipal Archives for helping me out with these 2 pics #Dartmouth #heritage #History
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and this..
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#halifax has a proud history of people living in emergency shelters on public land. builthalifax.ca/2021/08/26/a…
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