[Dartmouth] Canal East (42 Canal) | ? M | 30 & 14 FL | Approved

[Dmajackson]

New proposal for Dartmouth Cove by W.M. Fares. This is the site diagonal-opposite from the recently approved 15 Canal Street and same block as Moffatt's Pharmacy Development. Site will front onto Canal Street, Maitland Street, and Patuo'qn Street. Detailed renderings aren't required until permitting stage. The proposal is to designate the lands CEN-2 as per Dartmouth Cove FGN requirements. There are massing, site plans and other details available. The site plans shows three buildings (30-7-7 floors) with ground floor commercial and ~390 residential units.

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[LikesBikes]

Awesome. That's gonna be quite a dense little area in the future.

[IanWatson]

Well that'll be an end of an era when the old Value Village / Dartmouth Market gets torn down.

[OldDartmouthMark]

It's nice to see the Canal Street area finally get some love. It's been kind of a wasteland there for many years. A friend actually lived there in the late 1960s/early '70s, but I don't recall when all the houses were torn down to put up a parking lot (my apologies to Joni Mitchell)...

[Saul Goode]

Originally Posted by IanWatson

Well that'll be an end of an era when the old Value Village / Dartmouth Market gets torn down.

Surely you meant the old Value Village/Dartmouth Market/NSLC/Dominion Store.

Youngsters,,,no sense of history...

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by Saul Goode

Surely you meant the old Value Village/Dartmouth Market/NSLC/Dominion Store.

Youngsters,,,no sense of history...

I got my Nova Scotia Liquor ID card in that store. Does anybody remember those?

[Saul Goode]

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

I got my Nova Scotia Liquor ID card in that store. Does anybody remember those?

Of course. Got mine at the store by the Macdonald Bridge. A group of us got the boot from the Old Mill (another bit of Dartmouth history) because we didn't have what the waiter considered appropriate IDs (we were all legitimately of age). We walked to the liquor store, got our IDs made in about 10 minutes flat, walked back to the tavern and sat down. Waiter told us to get out again ("I thought I told you guys to get lost!") and we all slapped our shiny new IDs down on the table. To his credit, he laughed.

I also remember buying hot dogs at the Dominion which preceded the NSLC on Canal Street.

[terrynorthend]

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

I got my Nova Scotia Liquor ID card in that store. Does anybody remember those?

Me too in that same store! "NOVA SOCTIA" to be precise

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by terrynorthend

Me too in that same store! "NOVA SOCTIA" to be precise

That's right! I had forgotten that. A printing error, but rather than waste all these cards with the typo, they just used them up. Somehow, after a few 'wobbly pops', it looked okay again...

[KMcK]

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

I got my Nova Scotia Liquor ID card in that store. Does anybody remember those?

Mine said Nova Soctia. I understood it to be a security feature.

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by Saul Goode

Of course. Got mine at the store by the Macdonald Bridge. A group of us got the boot from the Old Mill (another bit of Dartmouth history) because we didn't have what the waiter considered appropriate IDs (we were all legitimately of age). We walked to the liquor store, got our IDs made in about 10 minutes flat, walked back to the tavern and sat down. Waiter told us to get out again ("I thought I told you guys to get lost!") and we all slapped our shiny new IDs down on the table. To his credit, he laughed.

I also remember buying hot dogs at the Dominion which preceded the NSLC on Canal Street.

I got mine as soon as I turned 19, because I still had a 'baby face' and couldn't get in anywhere. Meanwhile, my good friend who was almost a year younger than me could get in without being ID'ed because he could grow a beard. I suggested that he should get his ID as soon as he could, but he stubbornly laughed at me "I don't need that, they never even ask". Sure enough, we were going to the Moon to celebrate his birthday, but he couldn't get in because they decided to ID him this one time! Had a great time ribbing him over that one...

[IanWatson]

Originally Posted by Saul Goode

Surely you meant the old Value Village/Dartmouth Market/NSLC/Dominion Store.

Youngsters,,,no sense of history...

Actually, now that you mention it, I do remember it being an NSLC when I was a wee lad. However, I’m not quite ancient enough to have known it as a Dominion.

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by KMcK

Mine said Nova Soctia. I understood it to be a security feature.

I suspect someone who was quick on their feet came up with that as a cover for their oversight.

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by KMcK

Mine said Nova Soctia. I understood it to be a security feature.

The longlasting typo on Nova Scotia's Iiquor I.D. cards

The typo in Nova Scotia's name was noticed early on, but provincial liquor commission officials decided it wasn't worth spending the money to fix it — for six years.

As CBC reported in July of 1988, the province had been erroneously listed as Nova "Soctia" on identification cards for liquor purchases for years.

But why bother fixing what wasn't broken — or spelled correctly — even if that meant using the misspelled name of the province on the cards for much of the 1980s?

"We decided to carry on and use the cards that we had available until they're used up and save taxpayers money and so on," said Cal Craig of the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission, when explaining the rationale for still using the flawed cards six years after they were printed.

[ns_kid]

Originally Posted by Saul Goode

I also remember buying hot dogs at the Dominion which preceded the NSLC on Canal Street.

I loved those Dominion hot dogs!

[terrynorthend]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

I suspect someone who was quick on their feet came up with that as a cover for their oversight.

Yeah, it got me denied entry to a bar in Toronto when I was 19. Bouncer said it must be fake.

Come to think of it, maybe it was me running my mouth, "How the Hell would you know how NS is spelled?!" that got me barred.

[Saul Goode]

Originally Posted by terrynorthend

Yeah, it got me denied entry to a bar in Toronto when I was 19. Bouncer said it must be fake.

Come to think of it, maybe it was me running my mouth, "How the Hell would you know how NS is spelled?!" that got me barred.

Using that line on a Toronto bouncer would have made being barred totally worth it. How could you not say it?

[Dmajackson]

This project is going forward to public hearing in the near future. Should be noted that renderings and site plans are not available. The proposed development agreement is only relating to the zoning and LUB requirements. The high-rise portion of this site has no height limit and a F.A.R. of 6.75.

PLANAPP 2023-00453 Development Agreement

[someone123]

Originally Posted by terrynorthend

Yeah, it got me denied entry to a bar in Toronto when I was 19. Bouncer said it must be fake.

In BC once somebody asked me for a piece of photo ID to go with my credit card. I gave them my NS license (I believe it had correct spelling on it) and they said that they could only accept Canadian ID cards.

Not as bad as the tourists who allegedly come here, see Vancouver Island in the distance, and ask if it's Japan.

[OldDartmouthMark]

My memory is failing me. Weren't a number of developments in the Canal St. area on hold due to environmental concerns (remediation, etc.)? Or was that another part of Canal St.?