A sample of photos from the Halifax and Nova Scotia archives. Thanks to Susan McClure (HRM archivist) and Lauren Oostveen (project coordinator, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management) for selecting and providing context for these images.
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According to NS Archives’ Lauren Oostveen, this is a photo of Halifax Police Court & City Hall (formerly Exchange Coffee House), City Market House (built 1851 or ’58) and Market Square, at corner of Bedford Row and George St., taken on a Saturday morning, July 1886. “The Halifax Police Court and City Hall was built in 1810 as the County Court House; the court occupied the main floor, with the Exchange Coffee House on the first and attic floors.” -
According to HRM Archives’ Susan McClure, a neighbour is caught unaware while hanging out her laundry next to 6252 Lawrence St. on August 30, 1966, by a building inspector. (Note the City of Halifax adopted the still-in-use four-digit civic address in the mid-1960s; some images in this series give the old address, which can be converted to its current address, with a bit of research.) -
According to HRM Archivist Susan McClure, a building inspector was documenting the rear of 363 Brunswick St. on October 21, 1960. A neighbour was inadvertently caught on film putting on her lipstick in the lower-right corner of the image. -
According to HRM Archivist Susan McClure, a building inspector was documenting the rear of 363 Brunswick St. on October 21, 1960; however a neighbour was inadvertently caught on film putting on her lipstick in the lower-right corner of the image. -
City of Halifax building inspector’s photographs of the front of buildings on North Street, taken May 23, 1958–three years after the MacDonald Bridge opened. “See the ramp up to the bridge and imagine how the corner store of Vic Maclean ‘The Children’s Friend’ would have been affected by construction of the bridge ramp,” writes HRM Archivist Susan McClure. -
City of Halifax building inspector’s photograph of the rear of a building on North Street, taken May 23, 1958–three years after the MacDonald Bridge opened. As the inspectors were documenting “unsightly premises” they also recorded for the future a touching snapshot of daily life, writes HRM archivist Susan McClure. She notes the work-socks drying on the sock-stretcher, next to lady’s gloves that still would have been worn by women in 1958. -
NS Archives’ Lauren Oostveen sent this photo of two Africville children, with Seaview African United Baptist Church and houses behind it in the distance, ca. 1965.
