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The Halifax River is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, located in northeast Volusia County, Florida. The waterway was originally known as the North Mosquito River, but was renamed after George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (for whom Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada is also named), during the British occupation of Florida (1763–1784).
Halifax High School moved from Prescott Street after 123 years of education there. The school was built in 1882 as Clare Hall.
Nova Bus LFS Artic at Micmac Terminal - Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
The BHA (Bus History Association) chartered 719 for the Halifax portion of the 2023 Convention
Halifax Nova Scotia's old sector is filled with great wooden buildings with clean, simple lines.... This building is part of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
The town clock in between commercial establishments to your left and the Halifax Convention Centre to the right.
The idea of a clock for the British Army and Royal Navy garrison at Halifax is credited to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who arranged for a turret clock to be manufactured before his return to England in 1800. It is said that Prince Edward, then commander-in-chief of all military forces in British North America, wished to resolve the tardiness of the local garrison. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Town_Clock
Building design was a joint venture between local firm, Fowler, Bauld and Mitchell and Danish firm, Schmidt, Hammer and Lassen.
Day one of our east coast adventure started early, with a 2 a.m. wakeup to get to our 6 a.m. departure out of Calgary. We flew to Toronto where we had lunch and changed planes for the onward journey to Halifax. Not much left of the day, so we rendezvoused with Geoff, my composer friend, for dinner.
Just when you start feeling like you're wasting your time because you can't seem to find anything worth while to photograph........... don't get discouraged. Stick with it and good things will eventually happen. I wasn't feeling it and was about to pack it in when this gentleman came out from nowhere and stopped on the church steps. The light was amazing and I got my shot. Now, will it win any awards..... probably not, but who cares. It made me happy just seeing the light and I'm glad I waited.
Halifax Public Gardens are one of the finest surviving examples of a Victorian garden in North America. They were founded by the Nova Scotia Horticultural Society in 1836 and were recognized as a National Historic Site in 1984. The Halifax Public Gardens is also part of Canada’s Garden Route.
Out here, kilts are not something most people see every day, and so when I noticed there were Flickr groups about kilts, I took a few snaps to be able to contribute to them.
Halifax
The harbour is largely formed by a drowned glacial valley which succumbed to sea level rise since glaciation. The Sackville River now empties into the upper end of the harbour in Bedford Basin*, anglisized as Chebucto. It runs in a northwest-southeast direction.
Based on average vessel speeds*, Canada, Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, however its original river bed has been charted by the Canadian Hydrographic Service throughout the length of the harbour and beyond.*, it is the first inbound and last outbound port of call in eastern North America with transcontinental rail connections.
Halifax Harbour from the air looking South. Bedford is seen in the foreground*, located in the Halifax Regional Municipality.*, located in the Halifax Regional Municipality.The harbour is called Jipugtug by the Mi'kmaq first nation*, the Halifax Peninsula on the right*, the harbour is strategically located approximately one hour's sailing time north of the Great Circle Route between the Eastern Seaboard and Europe. As such*
On my morning photowalk, I explored some of the downtown, but also their wonderful wonderful waterfront. It's quite extensive, and I wasn't able to explore the entirety of it. Oddly, even though there are many world-class attractions there, I was QUITE taken by the little village of sea cans that were converted to shops.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Thieves
(I haven't read the original...)
Designed by William R. Glen (ABC’s in-house architect) and opening in 1938, The Regal Cinema (as it was known then) opened on 19 September 1938 with Otto Kruger in “Housemaster” & Jane Withers in “Checkers”. The Regal Cinema was a particularly fine 1,938-seat cinema, with 1,250 seats in the stalls and 688 in the balcony. A shallow stage was provided and four dressing rooms. The proscenium was wide and surrounded by an elaborate plaster fretwork concealing ventilation ducts. On either side were niches containing tall slender figurines which were not dis-similar to the ‘Oscar’ statues.
The cinema was tripled in 1976 (having been renamed ABC in 1961) and reopened on 12 September with 670 in screen 1, the original circle using the original unaltered screen, and 200 and 173 seats in screens 2 & 3 situated under the balcony.
Renamed Cannon and then back to ABC the cinema closed suddenly in 2002 having been bought for use as a nightclub.
It was designated a Grade II Listed building in 2000. This has ensured that all elements of the original (it had survived basically intact) are to be preserved. English Heritage described it as ‘Long curved stone exterior. A handsome surviving classical auditorium. One of the best of the few surviving original ABC auditoria’. However the construction of the nightclub, using the stalls area only, will effectively conceal all trace of the original design.
Work on the insertion of the nightclub began in the Summer of 2002 and the building was still being used as nightclub when this photo was taken in March 2018.