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tribeachpunk
Location: Halifax, NS Gender: Male Total Likes: 62 likes
| | | | Halifax Defence Complex < on 3/19/2007 2:32 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I know the explorers in Halifax love the local stuff and it doesn't get anymore local than these site. Many of you have probably seen a few, one at the very least, but I thought I'd try to draw a little attention to them since so close-by and they're really starting to deteriorate.. They won't always be there. We're really lucky in Halifax when it comes to older ruins to explore. Older military ruins are all over the place. I've been checking them, one by one, and was overwhelmed by how much was actually out there, really close, to look at. Parks Canada will now help me give you a little background on the Halifax Defence Complex. For almost 250 years Halifax has been an internationally important military bastion. In the 18th and 19th centuries its impressive harbour and strategic location enabled it to play a pivotal role in Britain's acquisition and defence of much of Canada. In the First and Second World Wars Halifax was still of great importance as a centre for Allied trans-Atlantic convoys and as a base for the Allies' North Atlantic Operation. A number of the military works protecting Halifax's harbour and naval station have survived to the present day. Five of these sites - the Halifax Citadel, York Redoubt, Georges Island, the Prince of Wales Tower, and Fort McNab - are national historic sites under the jurisdiction of Parks Canada. I've been adding all of the sites to the location database. All of the national historic sites have been added and listed as publicly viewable with the exception of Georges' Island where unauthorized access is prohibited. Fort George (Citadel Hill) http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=25711 York Redoubt http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=25889 Fort McNab (listed as McNabs Island, which could eventually be split into several locations) http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=25244 Prince of Wales Tower http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=25919 Point Pleasant Battery http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=25921 Cambridge Battery http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=25920 Fort Ogilvie http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=25933 ...And there are more! So, go, check these out before their gone! What the land isn't reclaiming, the ocean seems to be stealing.
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| tribeachpunk
Location: Halifax, NS Gender: Male Total Likes: 62 likes
| | | | Re: Halifax Defence Complex < Reply # 16 on 3/24/2007 5:13 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by sonikgirl Fort Massey (Once located in the vicinity of South & Queen) where is it now?
| It's definitely not still there. I'm not totally sure what happened to it. http://www.vac-acc...9&CFTOKEN=59173689 Fort Massey (1776 - unknown), Halifax A square earthen redoubt, with a blockhouse, barracks, and a magazine, was built between 1776 and 1778 on what was then known as Windmill Hill, presently at Queen and South Streets. It was to command the deep hollow formed by Freshwater Brook, which was a blind spot to the Citadel's guns, and also to cover Greenbank and Grand Batteries. The 17-gun earthwork fort was enlarged in 1782 to be 320 feet long and 170 feet wide, with two semi-circular works connected by a redan on each side. (info provided by Bolling Smith, of the Coast Defense Study Group) | http://www.geociti.../ns2.html#colonial
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