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Originally Posted by fenwick16
Thanks for posting the images. This is what it looked like after the Halifax Explosion (1917) - below . I assume that this was torn down soon after the Halifax Explosion, and later replaced by the Halifax Forum in 1929 (the Halifax Forum has a lot of history). (I had never heard of the Main Exhibit building before, at Almon and Windsor). It looks like Halifax lost many interesting buildings in the Explosion.
(source: http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/Halifax_Explosion?src=refl )
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Actually, the Halifax Forum was separate from the Exhibition Building. I remember as a kid in the mid-60s going to the Atlantic Winter Fair at the Forum and there was a structure called the Exhibition Building off to the side of the Forum, where the Canada Post customer parking lot now sits. It was a brick structure, 3 floors in height IIRC. They used to show the prize-winning pies, etc in there among other things. I presume it replaced the destroyed building in the pic. I remember it had very bouncy, creaky wooden floors.
On the site of what is now the Canada Post processing plant was the Exhibition Grounds, which used to have a horse racing track with grandstand. The Bill Lynch carnival show used to set up shop there in the summertime for a week or two.