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Remember This? Downtown Dartmouth's street names

Remember This? Downtown Dartmouth's street names

The first street grid of downtown Dartmouth, built on traditional and unceded Mi'kmaq territory, was marked out in 1750 by Charles Morris
Remember This? Quaker House : Dartmouth's oldest surviving building (3 photos)

Remember This? Quaker House : Dartmouth's oldest surviving building (3 photos)

Quaker House was built in 1786 and first occupied by William Ray, a cooper and whaler, and his family, from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
Remember This? The Origins of Natal Day

Remember This? The Origins of Natal Day

Natal Day, which falls on the first Monday of August, is a popular civic holiday in the Halifax-Dartmouth area
Remember This? First Red Bridge

Remember This? First Red Bridge

First Red Bridge would be at the modern intersection of Prince Albert Road and Celtic Drive, on the edge of Lake Banook
Remember This? Joffre Street’s Manor Hill Farm

Remember This? Joffre Street’s Manor Hill Farm

Today’s residential Joffre Street was once the location of 19th century poet Andrew Shiels’ Manor Hill farm
Remember this? Two sides of Canadian Confederation

Remember this? Two sides of Canadian Confederation

Not everyone in Halifax was for Confederation during the first Canada Day celebration
Remember This? The forgotten history of Geary Street Cemetery and the Dunn vault

Remember This? The forgotten history of Geary Street Cemetery and the Dunn vault

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
Remember This? Thousands of years of buried history shows HRM needs an Archaeological Management Plan (3 photos)

Remember This? Thousands of years of buried history shows HRM needs an Archaeological Management Plan (3 photos)

Halifax Regional Municipality does not have a civic museum, let alone an archaeological museum or a plan for one
Remember This? Downtown Dartmouth's Sterns Corner

Remember This? Downtown Dartmouth's Sterns Corner

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
Remember This? Ochterloney Street's Irish Town (3 photos)

Remember This? Ochterloney Street's Irish Town (3 photos)

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