Thanks ns_kid. I did not know (or had forgotten...lol) that they were still using gas up into the 1950s.
Here are a couple pics from a similar vantage point that I'm fairly confident are from the 1920s era:
https://novascotia.ca/archives/MacAs...es.asp?ID=3607
https://novascotia.ca/archives/MacAs...es.asp?ID=3608
And here's one from around the start of the Second World War:
https://novascotia.ca/archives/EastC...es.asp?ID=1107