A particularly detailed early map of Dartmouth, showing blockhouses (three of them) surrounding the town plot which contains 16 buildings, 15 within the area picketed. A road to Lawrencetown is noted, along with the Saw Mill at what would be five corners today. A dotted line denotes the cleared ground which surrounds the Dartmouth side … Read more
A (probably very) rough translation: “The English took possession of Chibouctou on the 19th of August 1749 and named it Halifax. It is one of the most beautiful ports in all parts of Acadia and England. It should provide great income, by the different advantages that it contains. It is located at 44 degrees 3 … Read more
“Whereas some uncertainty exists as regards the limits of the Township of Dartmouth… Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, that the lines of the Township of Dartmouth shall be established and settled as follows, beginning on the Eastern side of Bedford Basin at the head of Pace’s cove at low … Read more
“Prisons played a role in the system almost from the founding of Halifax. According to contemporary accounts the first British settlers in the town included numerous ‘vagabonds’ and assorted criminals. These were the remnants of the three thousand discharged soldiers and sailors, ‘the King’s bad bargains,’ introduced to the colony by Governor Cornwallis in 1749. … Read more
“F: Village Dartmouth ou monte un bivac de 60 homes “Bivac“: “Term borrowed from German. Extraordinary guard which is made at night in the open air for the safety of a camp, a detachment, a post. Sleep at the bivac.” Rough translation: Dartmouth village, a camp made up of 60 men. “Plan de la baye … Read more
Mirabert. “Plan des bayes de Chibouctou” 1753. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53089441d
Chabert, Joseph-Bernard de. “Plan de la rade et des ports de Chibouctou” >1750. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b530900341/f1.item.r=chebouctou.zoom
“List of Contributors: … P. McNab, Dartmouth – barley and oats.” “On the east side of the harbor is situated the town of Dartmouth, settled in 1750. The town is well situated, and is admirably adapted to the employment of ship-building. It is connected with the city by steamboats.” “Prior to 1719 (at which time … Read more
Morris, Charles. “A CHART OF THE SEA COASTS OF THE PENINSULA OF NOVA SCOTIA” 1755. https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:hx11z491q
Brewse, John. “A MAP OF THE SURVEYED PARTS OF NOVA SCOTIA MDCCLVI” 1756. https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:hx11z499x
This could be Fort Clarence based on the profile of the structure, though from the shape of the shoreline it more resembles the area around what was once Fort Duncan, dismantled by 1808, which today would be located underneath the MacDonald bridge at the bottom of Lyle Street. “A plan of the battery and redout … Read more
“The [Indigenous people] had appeared in the neighborhood of the town for several weeks, but intelligence had been received that they had commenced hostilities, by the capture of twenty persons at Canso… On the last day of September they made an attack on the sawmill at Dartmouth, then under the charge of Major Gilman. Six … Read more
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 … Read more
