Showing 78 results

Archival description
Halifax Municipal Archives photographic collection With digital objects
Print preview
Card view Table view
Aerial photograph of Halifax North End and Fairview
Aerial photograph of Halifax North End and Fairview
Item · [1946-1949]
Part of Halifax Municipal Archives photographic collection
Item consists of an oblique aerial photograph showing Fairview and the North End from Bedford Basin to Bayer's Road and showing up to Dartmouth. Shows rail lines, Fairview Railway station (demolished in 1949), Fairview Roundhouse and Repair yards, Fairview Cemetery, St. John Church and Cemetery, Department of Transportation buildings, Africville including the houses "Round the Bend," Kempt Road, Windsor St., Lady Hammond Road, Titus Smith School, Rockhead Prison, wharves, farmland, etc. Note that the upper part of the image (east from about Robie St.) has fallen out of focus, likely due to the lens or aperture used when photographed. CR6-076