Map Room

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

Here you can see the beltway as political actor, meant to separate what was once the Town of Dartmouth from the communities it had just annexed, Westphal, Woodlawn and Woodside, to become the City of Dartmouth. Tacoma Drive, Penhorn Drive and Oakwood are seen straddling the highway, a nascent street grid was connecting the communities until it wasn’t.

Near the top of the map “The Avenue” can be seen, still in its original configuration shortly before the area was “repurposed”.

“Metropolitan map and street guide Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada / compiled exclusively by Pathfinder Air Surveys Ltd.” Pathfinder Air Surveys 1965. https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/24367

Rivez, Charles. “A map of the harbour of Halifax” >1757. https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll4/id/16195

“Manuscript map copy by Samuel Holland showing the coasts around Halifax, to Lunenburg Harbour, and from Minas Basin to Forts Cumberland and Lawrence on the Bay of Fundy. Also shows the road from Fort Sackvile to Pisiguit Fort and the old Acadian villages around Bedford Bay”

Holland, Samuel. “Map of that part of Nova Scotia contained between Lunenburgh and the Bay Vert by Halifax and Pisiguit, including Cobiguit and Tatmagouch” 1755. https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll4/id/16150

“An Indian path to the lakes by which and the River Chebenacadie they go to Quebecq”, which seems to follow what was the original path of Crichton Avenue, also noted, “Coal Harbor”.

Meyer, Elias. “A chart of the coast of Nova Scotia from Port Maltois to Lawrence town [cartographic material] / Copeye’d by me E. Meyer Lt. of the 60, or Royal American Regt. 1757” https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll4/id/16135

Noticed: “America Point” at the north end of the Halifax peninsula, “Warren’s Point” and “Saw Mill River” on the Dartmouth side.

Turner, James. “This Map of the Province of Nova-Scotia and parts adjacent” Sold by Andrew Hook in Philadelphia 2d. Edition 1760. https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll4/id/1957

“Carte de l’Accadie : Dressée sur les manuscrits de Dépot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine / par N.B. ingr. et hyd. de la Marine, 1744..” https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-5488/wcl005565. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed: June 07, 2021.

Southack, Cyprian. A small map of the sea coast of New England together with the outlines of several of the provinces lying thereon, 1738. S.l: s.n., 1900. Web. 07 Jun 2021. <https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7h14b0051>

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. “The north eastern coast of North America : from New York to Cape Canso, including Sable Island” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1848. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-f0b2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. “A map of Cabotia” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1814. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a9d6bc40-2357-0133-af56-58d385a7b928