^ Great pictures bolognium! Interesting angle for the first and last ones. Don't often see the skyline from the southwest. The Renaissance towers make a big impact from there.
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"Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small, that we can never get away from the sprawl.
Living in the sprawl the dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains and there's no end in sight." -Arcade Fire
If you look closely you will see 4 cannons pointed at the photographer buried in the ramparts of George's Island. These cannons protected Halifax in the 1800's but there were guns on the Island as early as 1750 a year after Halifax was founded. The cannons are aimed at the mouth of the harbour. They were were never used because the word spread of how pointless it would be to attack Halifax and be blasted to smithereens.
The Citadel is the only well-known fort but there are actually 5 national historic sites (and maybe 10 or 12 actual forts) that formed a network of fortifications protecting the harbour in Halifax: http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/halif...l/natcul1.aspx
At one point, I think York Redoubt was comparable to the Citadel in terms of size, but it hasn't been restored to the same degree. The Martello Tower is really interesting too; it's a free-standing masonry tower from the 1700's that pre-dates earthworks (the stone walls are 8 feet thick):
Looks like the company making that one type of brown brick managed to get their little anonymous cash envelope to the one right guy at the federal government...
Gulls always congregated in close proximity, in the most convenient place to do so, and as far away as possible from other birds and people. They're like us moving to the mainland.
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