Explosion of Munitions at Magazine near Dartmouth

“Explosion of munitions at Magazine near Dartmouth, Halifax N.S. July 18-19/45. J. Hayward. 11 Buckingham St. Halifax.” https://archives.novascotia.ca/photocollection/archives/?ID=6324

“Explosion of munitions at Magazine near Dartmouth, Halifax N.S. July 18-19/45. J. Hayward. 11 Buckingham St. Halifax.” https://archives.novascotia.ca/photocollection/archives/?ID=6325

Halifax Explosion (in Dartmouth)

229 Windmill Road. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=63

218 Windmill Road. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=66

216 Windmill Road. [Mr. Forsythe’s home] https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=67

206 Windmill Road https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=80

200 Windmill Road. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=82

199 Windmill Road. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=81

195 Windmill Road. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=100

190 Windmill Road. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=101

180-182 Windmill Road. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=105

160 Windmill Road. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=111

152 Windmill Road. [Emmanuel Church] https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=112

Williston Foundry, Grove Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=64

11 Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=78

27 Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=77

32 Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=75

35 Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=76

45 Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=74

53 Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=68

55 Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=69

57 Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=70

75 Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=71

West side of Hester Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=72

6 Jamieson Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=103

11 Jamieson Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=104

14-16 Jamieson Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=102

35 Jamieson Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=79

43 Jamieson Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=106

Corner of Wyse Road and Pelzant Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=107

Pelzant Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=108

15 Pelzant Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=110

22 John Street. https://archives.novascotia.ca/maclaughlan/archives/?ID=109

Turtle Grove Breweries, Oland. https://archives.novascotia.ca/photocollection/archives/?ID=6222


Mr. Forsythe’s home Windmill Road, Dartmouth after Halifax Explosion. [216 Windmill Road] https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=279

Mr. Forsythe’s home Windmill Road, Dartmouth after Halifax Explosion. [216 Windmill Road] https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=280

Mr. Forsythe’s home Windmill Road, Dartmouth after the Halifax Explosion. [216 Windmill Road] https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=281

Dartmouth. Ruins of Emmanuel Church after the Halifax Explosion. [152 Windmill Road] https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=282

Dartmouth. Emmanuel Church after Halifax Explosion. [152 Windmill Road] https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=284

Dartmouth. Crathone’s Mill after the Halifax Explosion. https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=283

Dartmouth Rink after Halifax Explosion. [Site of Sportsplex today] https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=285

Dartmouth Rink after Halifax Explosion. [Site of Sportsplex today] https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=287

Store in north end of Dartmouth after Halifax Explosion. https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=286

After Halifax disaster. Store in north end of Dartmouth. 6 December 1917. https://archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/archives/?ID=278

“North End grocery store occupied by Robt. Dares, corner of Windmill Road and Jamieson street, 1917”

“[Mi’kmaq] School at Tufts Cove. The Principal was killed on his way to school. he puils lost their lives in the [Mi’kmaq] settlement.”

“Wrecked Houses in Dartmouth, Opposite scene of explosion, 1918.”

“Showing the devastation and havoc wrought in north end of Dartmouth, 1917.”

Halifax Harbor

dartmouth aerial
dartmouth aerial
“Airscapes – Nova Scotia. Copied February 1927. Recopied 6 Sept. 1955, Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia – Beyond the narrows stretches Bedford Basin where the greatest fleet can be hidden and sheltered from the Atlantic storms.”

Part of Dartmouth, from Wyse Road west and north, seen at right.

“Nova Scotia”, 1927. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68155666

Dartmouth Shore in the Harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

dartmouth gallery

There’s a lot going on here.

The focus for me is this view, one of the earliest views of Dartmouth, full of detail!

This is the only representation I’ve ever seen of the gibbet at what used to be Hangman’s Point, later the Nantucket Whaling Company lands, the Marine Railway, the Dartmouth Shipyards, and now King’s Wharf.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. “Dartmouth Shore in the Harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1780. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-176e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.

Des Barres, Joseph F. Wallet (1721-1824) Published by Published by J.F.W. Des Barres in ‘The Atlantic Neptune’, [London, 1777], https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30296519724&searchurl=ds%3D20%26kn%3Ddartmouth%2Bnova%2Bscotia%26pt%3Dart%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet--srp1--title5.

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