All the neighbourhoods within walking distance
Some of the stickie notes written by residents who attended Monday's meeting at the Halifax Forum about a possible multi-use stadium for Halifax.
This 1928 route map shows a tram line leading into Point Pleasant Park. Used with permission of authors of The Halifax Street Railway (Nimbus).
HALIFAX — The fabled Birney tram cars ran these routes until just after the Second World War. The 1928 route map updates the diagram from a year before. The updated version shows new tracks serving Point Pleasant Park, and connecting the Armdale route to the now-demolished Simpsons store at the bottom of Chebucto Road. Also of note is the cheerful electrically-charged running man.
Thanks again to Don Artz and Don Cunningham, authors of The Halifax Street Railway (Nimbus), for this image.
Detail from the 1928 map.
The Birneys travelled 16 kilometres on the Richmond-Gottingen line (Route 3). (Used with permission of authors of The Halifax Street Railway.)
“You could feel yourself, like, swinging, because they were quick little things,” says Don Cunningham, who used to ride the rail cars as a child until they were pulled off Halifax streets in 1949. “They always said they were like a teeter-totter. Because they had a single truck in the middle with four wheels and a lot of overhang.”
The above map shows the route the Birneys took up Agricola, Windsor, Gottingen and Barrington streets. The 1927 diagram was not to scale. An updated route map in 1928 shows a more accurate outline of the peninsula and new spur lines serving Point Pleasant Park and the Simpsons store on Chebucto Road.
Birney Safety Cars were introduced in Halifax in March 1920, replacing older electric trams that had been
A Birney in the late 1940s in front of the now-demolished Bloomfield School building. (Used with permission of authors of The Halifax Street Railway.)
Cunningham, who with Don Artz co-authored The Halifax Street Railway (Nimbus), last rode a Birney when he was seven. He mostly remembers the sounds.
“You had the air compressors, you had the sound of the steel wheels, and when you stopped you could hear the air brakes and then you hear that funny little chugging sounds that was the compressor.”
HALIFAX – Sizzling Mediterranean food and free admission. Lebanese Festival organizers have those two aces up their sleeves when competing with Paul McCartney for an audience this weekend.
It’s the ninth year of the event, which attracts many volunteers from Halifax’s Lebanese community.
“We’ve all been here since the beginning of the festival,” said Lorendo, pictured above between Caroline, on left, and Ramza. The three were tending to a grill full of chich taouk and kafta Friday afternoon, just before the onslaught of the after-work crowd.
Kid activities, live music, folk dancing and a raffle are other reasons to attend the festival, which runs until Sunday night at the Olympic Centre at 2304 Hunter Street.
North and Agricola 