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Old Posted Jul 15, 2012, 9:42 PM
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Sketch of Halifax from 1759.


http://gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/Halif...hives.asp?ID=2

Description: This sketch, done from the Citadel in May 1759, was executed while Richard Short was in Halifax during the Seven Years' War, with the British fleet bound for the siege at Quebec. Short was an amateur artist and the purser on board HMS Prince of Wales. The sketch shows at the northern (left) extreme, the Great Pontack Inn at the corner of Duke and Water Streets, and extends as far south (right) as the Governor's Summer Farm, now the site of Government House on Barrington Street.

Barrington Street circa 1960:


http://gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/NSIS/archives.asp?ID=777
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