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Originally Posted by Empire
Are you always this confusing?
Boundaries:
The neighbourhood referred to as the "North End" by Halifax residents was bounded on the east and north by "The Narrows" of Halifax Harbour and the Bedford Basin. Its other boundaries as not as sharply defined, but the western limit of the neighbourhood is generally agreed to lie somewhere between Oxford Street and Robie Street, with many settling on Windsor Street as a convenient delimiting line.
The southern boundary was, traditionally, the northern limit of General Cornwallis's original Halifax settlement along the slope of Citadel Hill (now Cogswell Street), and continuing along the northern edge of the North Common to Quinpool Road.
The northern boundary has steadily migrated toward the Bedford Basin since Halifax's founding. The boundary originally ended at North Street, just as the South End ended at South Street. Another community further to the north was Richmond, and was located on the eastern slope of Fort Needham. Further north of Richmond, at the end of the Campbell Road, was the black community of Africville.
By the end of the 19th century, the perception of the North End had come to generally include Richmond as well. Following its total destruction in the Halifax Explosion (December, 1917), Richmond never again regained its individual identity. The area underwent significant redevelopment during the inter-war period and gradually became an extension of the original North End.
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Seems pretty clear to me.
While historical references are academically interesting, they bear little relevance to this. What you referenced is from an area where the North End was undeveloped, hence the reference to the northern boundary migrating. It cannot migrate since it is bounded by Bedford Basin. You are referencing something that is talking about the Halifax of the 18th century; it is irrelevant now.
I grew up in the North End. What those pictures show is not the North End. They are pictures of Central Halifax.
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