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In this Jan. 31, 2018 file photo, contractors remove the statue of Edward Cornwallis in a city park in Halifax. The controversial Halifax figure offered a cash bounty to anyone who killed a Mi'kmaw person. Photo by Andrew Vaughan /THE CANADIAN PRESS Article content HALIFAX — When builders created Halifax’s distinctive Hydrostone neighbourhood more than a century ago, they chose to honour celebrated explorers. There are streets named after William Grant Stairs, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and Henry Morton Stanley, among others. But now some residents are taking a closer look at the...

HALIFAX - When builders created Halifax’s distinctive Hydrostone neighbourhood more than a century ago, they chose to honour celebrated explorers. There are streets named after William Grant Stairs, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and Henry Morton Stanley, among others.

Brandon Sun By: Danielle Edwards, The Canadian Press Posted: Save to Read Later HALIFAX - When builders created Halifax’s distinctive Hydrostone neighbourhood more than a century ago, they chose to honour celebrated explorers. There are streets named after William Grant Stairs, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and Henry Morton Stanley, among others. A sign marks Stairs Place in the Hydrostone district in the North end of Halifax on Thursday, May 13, 2021. The street was named for William Grant Stai...

He was 104. In addition to emerging mostly unharmed from the wartime munitions blast that devastated Halifax, Snair walked away from one of the worst train accidents Canadian history: the 1942 Almonte train wreck that killed 39 people. In his 50s, he survived a bout with cancer; in his 60s, a highway crash; and as a centenarian, most of his second pandemic. He once told an interviewer he didn’t believe God played any role in his repeated acts of survival. “No, it’s just something that happened and I happened to be there,” Snair explained. “I’ve just been in the right place at the ...

Bridgewater, NS, Canada / Country 100.7 Feb 19, 2021 9:21 AM I love playing the game, where you try and name as many famous lines from Heritage Moments/Minutes as possible. “I need these baskets back” (Sports coach James Naismith’s invention of basketball” “Through the air, across the ocean, for the first time ever” (Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics) “There are 700 people aboard it. I got to stop it…Common, common, acknowledge” (Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrific...