Exploring the built Environment in Halifax NS. from the Mind that brought you @hfxshippingnews
Halifax NS
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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…
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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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A report commissioned by federal & BC governments: #NIMBY opposition to new housing is given too much weight by decision makers.
It suggests abolishing public hearings, which "favour certain voices over others," for broader consultation. #vanpoli #vanre
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An exciting day for #hfxfirehistory today. Our friends at the Regional Firefighters Interpretation Centre NS, received two very special deliveries. Original Bedford apparatus, The Village Queen and Dartmouth’s 1929 Chev hose truck! More pics to follow! #hfxfire – at Halifax, Nova Scotia
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#ArtIsEverywhereMW - Don’t forget to look UP! Our Museum is housed within a Georgian-era home, which means that there is very unique architecture and design elements that have survived for over 200 years! Pictured here are some of the original elements of the house like the
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Thoughts on the heritage value of a Victorian culvert
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#Halifax and #NovaScotia history folks,
Does anyone know exactly where Joseph Howe and his family lived in Halifax? @NS_Archives? @DeanJobb? I'm assuming the property isn't there anymore, but I'd like to get a rough estimate.
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Broughton, situated about 12 miles from Sydney, Nova Scotia, was considered one of the first 'planned' towns in Canada. This plan of the 'town-to-be' featured drawings of the Office Building, Assistant Manager's House, Broughton Arms, Railroad Station, Car Haul & Bank Head.
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I wrote about something I've thinking about a lot recently:
19th century doctors were themselves obsessed with ventilation. How did we manage to forget that? 1/
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The Venn diagram of those who say taking down a statue erected in 1931 is "destroying history" and those who say people protesting the razing of an entire streetscape built in 1859-1889 are not protecting history is a perfect circle.
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Cool archives find of the day: area concept plan Rockhead prison and the neighbouring area. #Halifax
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The lead architect of @Placevillemarie and much of Toronto’s Commerce Court. – at Toronto, Ontario
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'Firemen fighting fire, Cragg's building along with Barnstead's and Sutherland's Buildings were gutted on Barrington Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia'
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Fire swept through the buildings around Barrington and George Streets in Halifax in the icy early morning of January 12, 1912.
