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Identified! Corner of Vernon and Pepperell Streets looking north to Quinpool Rd.

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  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Bill Jarvis said:
    The car is a 1964 Chevrolet.
  • Cara MacDonald said:
    Corner of Cornwallis and Bauer looking up towards the Commons?
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    Thanks for another date verification Bill Jarvis!
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    That does look like the right distance down from the Commons, Cara MacDonald - but since the building on the corner is not the same as the row-houses there now, we can't be sure. Any other clues?
  • Ryan Tucker said:
    Looks like Vernon at Pepperell, looking north toward Canadian Tire at the corner, and Saint Joseph's Orphanage on the other side of Quinpool. Refs: Aerial overview of the city - Quinpool Road (Retrieval Code #102-105-1-49-1088-54) and Vernon St. [corner of Pepperell St.] (Retrieval Code 102-39-1-1272)

Identified! 1795 Hollis Street

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  • Kemble Flynn said:
    building on Hollis Street across from the Split Crow
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    Thanks www.flickr.com/photos/193508122@N07/ Are you thinking of the buildings along Granville Mall, where the Split Crow is now? Or somewhere nearby on Hollis? I checked Google Streetview in that area but didn't recognize these buildings; however they could no longer be there.
  • Haggis said:
    Isn’t this photo backwards?
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    Haggis We don't believe so -- all the numbers in the photo appear to be the right way around!
  • Ryan Tucker said:
    1795 Hollis. You can see the reflection of the Royal Bank in the windows, and the building on the right would be George Street Bank of Montreal (archives.novascotia.ca/eastcoastport/archives/?ID=2082). I think the small building in the photo was at one point Acadia Insurance Co. based on a 1960 phone directory.

Identified! Plumbing business in building on Union Street in Glace Bay, Cape Breton

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