fort clarence

A plan of the battery and redout on the east side of the harbour of Halifax (Dartmouth)

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fort clarence

This is likely Fort Clarence, though from the shape of the shoreline and the profile of the fort itself it could also be what was once Fort Duncan, dismantled by 1808, which today would be located underneath the MacDonald bridge at the bottom of Lyle Street.

Fort Clarence at left, later the Imperoyal refinery, Fort Duncan at right.

“A plan of the battery and redout on the east side of the harbour of Halifax” >1749. https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll4/id/16120

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