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Originally Posted by Hali87
This one's disappointing. Most of these old-school factories and warehouses (mainly textile) have been disappearing - there aren't many left.
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It is too bad. At this point as you say they're mostly gone. It is frustrating how easily they are demolished in NS.
Part of the problem is that many towns in NS have barely grown since the industrial Victorian era. For example Yarmouth NS was bigger than Kitchener in 1881 but now it is much smaller and that factory represents a lot of upkeep for a small town. They won't be filling a 200,000 square foot factory with tech startups in Yarmouth. But this does not explain all the demolition around the Halifax area. And I think realistically, stabilizing one Victorian mill exemplar per town is not really that out-there. Northern England probably has 100x as much of this and is no wealthier than NS.
I don't think people in NS value their history much and there is still a lingering "we can't have nice things here" culture. This might sound a bit controversial but I think this culture has to some degree moved on to complaining about housing affordability as the excuse du jour though the connection is tenuous (in the early 2000's the excuse was business-friendliness that required zero standards anywhere; we will go backrupt if we don't allow a tilt-up Wal-Mart downtown). The attitude is one of my least favourite NS-isms and I think it has seriously degraded the environment in the province compared to what it could have been.
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By the time it was completed, it was mostly obsolete, and during that 10 years it was used to build the rail line that replaced it and led to its closure. The canal itself took substantially longer than 10 years to build - multiple waves of immigrants over several decades. The "Marine Railway" was a section of the canal that carried boats over land on rails.
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