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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
Was looking for exhibition buildings on NS archives earlier and stumbled upon the Royal Exhibition Building on the corner of Tower Road and Morris Street.
https://novascotia.ca/archives/Notman/archives.asp?ID=680
Decided to look it up on Google Maps and remembered that Tower Road and Morris St. no longer intersect. That intersection is now Martello St. and University Ave.
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This is an interesting building. There are pictures of skating carnivals with participants in costumes being held in this Exhibition building. According to an old map previously posted by Dmajackson -
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/halifax_1894.jpg , it was on the site where the Cathedral Church of All Saints was built starting in 1907 -
http://www.cathedralchurchofallsaints.com/cathedral_100.html
Here is another image, which shows it looking down from the Citadel in 1880 -
https://novascotia.ca/archives/Notman/archives.asp?ID=406. If you zoom in, you will see it to the south of the building on the Public Gardens, which I believe is one of the first covered skating rinks in Canada. According to this link -
http://alongthegardenspath.com/category/halifax-public-gardens-2/page/52/ - the Public Gardens skating rink existed from 1859 - 1889.
The Exhibition Hall at Tower and Morris seems to have existed for only a short time (about 25 years at the most) since it wasn't shown in a 1878 Halifax Atlas (map), but existed in 1880 and then was gone by 1907 when the church was built.
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