[Hali87]

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Yeah, actually a huge area of the downtown/north end was razed for what amounted to urban renewal, the planners' vision of the future as viewed through 1950s rose-coloured glasses.

It encompassed all the area of Scotia Square, Cogswell, and the north end of Barrington to accommodate the ill-fated Harbour Drive project. This subject has been covered in great detail in other threads on this site.

As far as I know, the people displaced by this project just moved elsewhere, wherever they could. The public housing projects like Uniacke Square were created to house those displaced when the city took over Africville, if I'm remembering this correctly. Not sure where Mulgrave Park fits in to all of this, though.

Mulgrave Park was completed a few years before Uniacke Square, more or less concurrent with the clearing of the "Central Redevelopment Area" (now Scotia Square) while Uniacke Square was associated more with Africville.