Halifax Municipal Archives

My immediate thought on seeing this was Franklyn Street. I worked for the Canadian Inventory of Historic Building (a program of Parks Canada) in 1974, and we drew up rough floor plans and did extensive interior photographs of an impressive brick Victorian house on Franklin, very reminiscent of this one.
I wonder if CIHB records are easily available or digitized. Many pre-1880 Halifax building exteriors would have been catalogued in the early 70’s under the Phase 1 program. ‘Phase 2’ involved plans and interior photos of a limited number of Phase 1 properties.

robadr Thank you for your comment, and your attribution of this house possibly being on Francklyn Street! It looks like the Canadian Inventory of Historic Building is not very easily accessible to us, but that's a great resource to keep in mind. I haven't been able to completely confirm that this house is on Francklyn Street, but I've updated the descriptions here and in the database to reflect the possibility.

I'm pretty certain that this is fernwood lane in the south end of halifax. 6033 on the right and 6039 on the left.

I've walked by these recently, they look just the same. According to google maps the addresses are 6033 and 6039 Fernwood Lane, just off of Franklyn.

Hello Colby Rice - thanks a lot for the identification on this one! We've updated the description in our database with the location.

I tink thats SMU

Thank you for the suggestion, Luke Elwood! I'm not sure the pedway matches the one I was able to see is at SMU, but after looking into it some more, I think this may be the old NSCC building on Bell Road. The windows seem to match those in this photo: .

thanks :)

Shore Drive, Bedford.

David Craig Thank you, David, for the identification of this location and of the buildings in Wallis Heights! I've updated the record in our database with the information.

This was 378 Shore Drive. It was built in 1913 by James E. Roy, after their original house (also in Bedford) burned down. Mr. Roy was manager of the Singer Sewing Machine company in NS.

In 1938, they converted the home into six apartments; two apartments were occupied by Roy's daughters. It stayed in the Roy family until 1965, when the last Roy daughter died and it was sold.

In 2010, it was purchased by a developer and later demolished. Over 2024-25 ten houses were built on the site.

For more information about the Roy family and their houses. Please contact the Fort Sackville Foundation at scottmanor.ca.

Hi Jane De Luca - thank you for this identification, as well as the information about the property! I've updated the database description with the location and your additional comments about the property's history.