Water Street and Portland Street, 1880s

From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin:

This picture shows Water Street at the intersection of Portland Street, taken in the 1880s. The McDonald building, where the emergency hospital was set up in 1848, is the tall pitch-roof structure, long known as the skyscraper of Dartmouth. Note the granite street crossings, the lamp-post at Lawlor’s corner and the [black] men leaning against the Sir John Wentworth cannon at Sterns’ corner. The first modern brick building of Dartmouth, erected by Luther Sterns, adjoins McDonald’s on the south. At McDonald’s Hall, Joseph Howe denounced Confederation in May 1867.

Stern’s Corner From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin: This photo of Sterns’ corner taken about 1930, shows the Governor Wentworth cannon in the same position as seen today near the Portland Street show-window of Dartmouth Furnishers, Ltd. The other...
1912 From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin: The Dartmouth Patriot newspaper removed from 85 Portland Street in 1912, and located at the present 48 Commercial Street in the building then vacated by C. E. Peveril when he closed...
1822 From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin: The first Fire Department of Dartmouth was organized on September 21, 1822, and comprised the following citizens: Captain William Allen, Sec’y E. H. Lowe, Lieut. James Coleman, Henry Yetter, James Allen,...
1807 From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin: On Wednesday, March 11, 1807, Christian Bartlin and Alexander McDonald were drowned by the oversetting of their boat as they were returning home from Halifax. (This man may have been a...
1839 From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin: “At this stage of our story, we turn to the columns of the Dartmouth “Atlantic Weekly” to give readers a first-hand account of life in Dartmouth in the 1830s, as written...
1858 From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin: In 1858 a pipe line was laid from Maynard’s Lake to convey water to Mount Hope Asylum. Houses recently erected along the route like Beech wood, Sunnyside and Maplehurst were also...
Old Court House From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin: At left is shown the red-bricked Court House fronting George Street where the Magistrates long administered the affairs of Halifax and of the whole County. After Halifax was incorporated in 1841, both...
City of Dartmouth Police Station At the corner of Wentworth and Ochterloney Streets looking north east, land that has since passed into new hands and is now a residential building. Ochterloney Street between Dundas and Wentworth looking south, Town Hall was at left, Police Station...
1933 From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin: Here is Wentworth Park and the children’s playground. The photograph, taken from the foot of Wentworth Street looking east, shows the vacant spaces of the former Glendenning field now occupied by...
1874 From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin: In response to a memorial from the clergy early in 1874, a Committee of the Town Council recommended that liquor licenses be restricted to 10, and that the annual fee be...

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