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The first street grid of downtown Dartmouth, built on traditional and unceded Mi'kmaq territory, was marked out in 1750 by Charles Morris

Quaker House was built in 1786 and first occupied by William Ray, a cooper and whaler, and his family, from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

Natal Day, which falls on the first Monday of August, is a popular civic holiday in the Halifax-Dartmouth area

First Red Bridge would be at the modern intersection of Prince Albert Road and Celtic Drive, on the edge of Lake Banook

Today’s residential Joffre Street was once the location of 19th century poet Andrew Shiels’ Manor Hill farm

Not everyone in Halifax was for Confederation during the first Canada Day celebration

Geary Street Cemetery was opened around 1835 to replace the over-crowded earlier St. Peter's burial ground which was located near the former Tim Horton's on Ochterloney Street

Halifax Regional Municipality does not have a civic museum, let alone an archaeological museum or a plan for one

Located at today's Alderney Drive and Portland Street, Sterns Corner is a historic downtown Dartmouth landmark with a strong connection to the Sterns family

Commonly known as the last surviving house of Dartmouth’s Irish Town, 133 Ochterloney Street dates to at least 1846