Halifax Municipal Archives

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Halifax Municipal Archives hopes you enjoy these historical photos. You will find thousands more images plus documents, maps, architectural plans through the Archives Database. If you would like higher resolution copies, you can purchase them directly from us. Find out more at halifax.ca/archives, or contact us at archives[at]halifax.ca; 902-490-4643.

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Identified! Wallis Heights, Dartmouth

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  • David Craig said:
    Formerly known as "Wallis Heights" in Dartmouth, now called Ocean Breeze. Soon to be all demolished.

Unidentified dignitaries gathered for presentation of First Aid trophies to Halifax police on steps of City Hall

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  • billy said:
    THe only archive on flickr commons to ruin every single picture with an ugly logo on the corner of every single image.
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    www.flickr.com/photos/146237924@N02/ if you need a clean image of any of our content, please email archives[at]halifax.ca. We decided to watermark our images after finding them for sale on commercial sites. We invest a lot in preserving original photographs, digitizing them and documenting all the details we have on them to share with the public so people can enjoy them. If they want to profit from their use we ask that they contact us.
  • David Craig said:
    This is on the front steps of Halifax City Hall.
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    David Craig Thank you, David! We have that piece of information in our database description, but I will add it in here as well.

Identified! Tenement building on Market Street

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  • jamica1 said:
    Goodness; about to topple over?
  • Steve Skafte said:
    No, it's just taken at a bad angle.
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    You are probably right, Steve Skafte - but many of these Works Department images were taken by building inspectors documenting unsightly premises... This building most probably no longer exists because they started enforcing Ordinance 50 requiring upkeep of buildings.
  • Ryan Tucker said:
    "A Redevelopment Study of Halifax, Nova Scotia 1957" (Retrieval Code 711.45 .S8 v.1) refers to it as "TENEMENT BUILDING IN MARKET STREET" on page 14 (PDF page 25).
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    Good catch, Ryan Tucker! It looks like we did note the study and that it was possibly on Market Street in the database description and forgot to note that here - we will go back in and make it clearer that we do think it is Market Street. Thank you for the identification!

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