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Originally Posted by JET
It was not a grand house, I remember it being a white wooden house, quite plain. Those look impressive, nice find.
The building on the right (west side of street) was in the public gardens?
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I believe it was a skating rink, the one in the following article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...1863-1.3387645
and this:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/thenova...rate-150-years
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An entire city block, except for a covered skating rink built by the military facing South Park Street, was now under cultivation.
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Here's a photo from NS archives that part of it just behind the three houses on the corner of South Park and Sackville (old CBC site):
https://novascotia.ca/archives/Notma...ves.asp?ID=406
Also, I did find part of a thread on this site where it was discussed in the past:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=143037&page=5
The map shown in that thread is on the NS archives site:
https://novascotia.ca/archives/maps/plate.asp?ID=18