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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
On topic, here's an excellent blog post by skycraper member Ziobrop:
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Thanks, ODMark. That is an excellent account of the building of the Ocean Terminals and the rail cut.
Here's a detail from another of the McCurdy aerials showing the current Halifax Station in 1931, three years after it opened. The red brick 1918 "temporary" station is to the right of the new station. It survived for many years as CNR's express terminal. All that remains there is the Maritime Bus depot. I assume the bones of that structure date from the 1918 construction but I don't know that for certain. Others may know more. Sadly, the massive Bush-style train shed, one of the last remaining in the country (along with Toronto and Winnipeg), was demolished in the 90s.
