Metropolitan map and street guide Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

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.

dartmouth map

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