Guarding Halifax – The story of the Martello Tower
In July 1796, the cornerstone of Prince of Wales Tower was laid in a gala ceremony with His Royal Highness, Prince Edward, in attendance. Placed on the highest point of land in Point Pleasant Park, its guns could provide protective cover fire for all of Point Pleasant’s batteries and the mouth of the Northwest Arm.
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The Lighthouses of the Saint John
They come as a surprise amid the farms and rolling hills of inland New Brunswick. Lighthouses. They seem incongruous in this pastoral landscape, until one takes into account that the Saint John River is one of the finest and most unique inland journeys that a yachter can undertake in Atlantic Canada. The Saint John is [...]
Read moreThe Dingle
Most of the harried commuters who beat their way through Halifax’s Armdale Roundabout twice every day barely notice it anymore. But in the days before World War I, the incongruous Italianate tower that sits on its knoll overlooking the Northwest Arm was the toast of the city. “The Dingle,” most Haligonians call it, although its [...]
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