#halifax harbour

[allwitnobrevity]

My latest comic, which will only make sense if you also live in a historic port city where an amphibious bus full of tourists constantly drives around waving at locals and blasting fun facts about the 1700s through a megaphone.

[plastycznyonline]

A.Y. Jackson Entrance to Halifax Harbour 1919

[alexsbrain]

[ameliacf13]

USS James E. Williams and USS Porter with USNS William McLean (behind them) in port at Halifax, NS, Canada.

[justinelark]

Did the bartender or server SAY that Sid and Nate were there together?

No, but I choose to believe it.

Did Kevin Strom say Nate and Sid were having a DIRTY weekend?

No, he said they were having a DRY weekend. But still! They do dry weekends together!

[solarphoto]

the map becomes the territory may 14

[rabbitcruiser]

Treaty of Utrecht: France ceded a part of the Maritime provinces in North America to Great Britain on April 11, 1713.  

[raziraphale]

If anyone's curious, the painting above is of the S.S. Olympic at the port of Halifax, N.S., painted by Arthur Lismer (Group of Seven).

[finlaure13]

Leave it to Ontario to fuck up another icon of the Maritimes.

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[jossarisfoto]

Halifax | Dartmouth en Discovery Centre

Zaterdag, 25 maart 2023 | Vandaag maken we onze laatste wandeling door Halifax. De wandeling begint bij de Historic Properties, een prachtig gerestaureerde wijk met veel oude gebouwen en historische charme. Vervolgens nemen de veerboot naar Dartmouth, waar we genieten van het prachtige uitzicht op de haven van Halifax en de omliggende heuvels. Vervolgens nemen we de veerboot terug naar…

[farcillesbian]

[video description: a beagle standing on the Halifax harbour steps at the water's edge pawing and biting at a cylindrical pink toy floating in the water, trying to grab it without actually getting into the water. a person behind him is clapping and cheering him on, and there are voices saying "you can do it! you can get it!" and similar encouragement. near the end, you can do it by ice cube starts playing, and the dog does finally manage to grab the toy. /end VD]

[image description: a two panel comic meme. the first panel shows a stick figure sitting in a room with an open door and there are tons of black scribbles over and around the person.

the second panel shows an image in the doorway of the dog from the video running away from the steps with his toy. there are no more black scribbles and the stick figure is blushing with its arms up saying "omg he got the toy!!" /end ID]

[muttball]

The Halifax Harbour Hopper

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Night. Rain. Light. Silence. Action. Halifax harbour was super moody whenever I visited it. Especially on my last night in Halifax before I took off to Cape Breton. No. 1: the really cool installation is called “The way things are”! These are all shot on #Canon 6D + EF 16-36 f/2.8 ii Tags: #CanonCanada #shotonCanon #shareyourweather #yourshotphotographer #halifax #novascotia #rainynight #moodygrams #nightphotography #nightshot #harbour #atlanticocean (at Halifax, Nova Scotia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPtK8VvzJs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ltwilliammowett]

The barquentine "Maid of England" with broken mast and covered in ice coming into Halifax Harbour in 1923.

Photo: W.R. MacAskill

[hunterrrs]

photos from here, I NEED FOOTAGE OF THIS. also this article is a great read. he’s invited some families who lost their homes in the halifax fires to practice:

By the time you read this, Pittsburgh Penguins players will have munched on the pudding known as haggis, made from the livers, hearts and lungs of sheep. And learned how to shuck oysters, in all their slimy, gooey glory.

All courtesy of Sidney Crosby, the Pittsburgh captain, who brought team building to an entirely new level on Saturday. From the moment months ago that he learned the Penguins would be playing here, Crosby was stoked. A proud native of Cole Harbour, 10 miles from Halifax, the 36-year-old began planning out his transformation from NHL star to tour guide.

“I think just the feel of it, the people, and to see the excitement for the game,” Crosby said Friday. “And just to get around the city a little bit, those types of things.

“It’s somewhere that I’m really proud of, and I hope everyone enjoys themselves there.”

In order to do that, he set something up with a unique Maritime flavor. Welcome to “The Amazing Race: Crosby Edition.”

“When Sidney found out the team was coming here, he wanted to find a fun way to celebrate his hometown with his teammates and educate them on why it’s such a special place,” his father, Troy, said.

He seems to have done exactly that.

After a morning of golf Saturday, the unsuspecting Penguins set out on an “Amazing Race”-like scavenger-hunt competition that would take them through the streets of Cole Harbour, Dartmouth and downtown Halifax, and across Halifax Harbour on a ferry.

Under the format, the players were divided into teams. They were given instructions of where to go, what venues to visit and what tasks they were to do (e.g., eating haggis, shucking oysters), all while going up against the clock.

The instructions came on laminated cards featuring the Penguins logo and a “Welcome to Cole Harbour” greeting.

The message on one of the cards read, “Every player has to shuck two oysters and eat them or have a teammate eat them on their behalf. Careful with that knife, and don’t break any shells!”

Crosby enlisted the help of Paul Mason, one of his baseball and minor hockey coaches, to help plan the event. Mason was paramount in setting up the three Cole Harbour Stanley Cup celebrations in Crosby’s honor, and No. 87 didn’t hesitate when it came to the perfect person to set up this event.

“In organizing this, when he talked to me about it, he wants this entire weekend to be pretty special for the community, for his teammates, for everyone around him,” Mason said. “You can sense how much these few days mean to him. You could sense his anticipation for months.”

Mason said that even though Crosby is the host for his teammates this weekend, he’s going to try to win everything: golf, the scavenger hunt, the preseason game Monday, you name it.

“He’s competitive at everything, even as a little kid when I was coaching him,” Mason said. “And that hasn’t changed.

“When the NHL was shut down during COVID, his dad Troy and I played Sidney and one of his friends in a golf match. They should have won, but somehow we did. He didn’t accept that. He said it was two out of three. When we won the second one he said it was three out of five. We ended up playing seven of them. The seventh one was in December with snow on the ground. They won that one to take the series 4-3. Suddenly that was acceptable because they’d won.

“Once they’d finally won, it was over,” Mason said with a laugh.

During some of those summers, Greenwood has helped organize some of the offseason skates featuring Crosby, MacKinnon and Marchand at a local arena. The competitiveness gets intense at times, something Greenwood said helps all three drive each other.

“Yeah, they’re friends,” he said. “But when they start playing against each other at times, you’d never know it. They want to beat one another at any and all costs.

“You can see how that drive, that determination, that win-at-all-costs attitude rubs off on some of the younger guys.”

Count Drake Batherson as one of them. The 25-year-old Senators forward grew up in New Minas, 50 miles northwest of Halifax, and has been training during the offseason with Crosby, Marchand and MacKinnon since 2019. He calls those workouts “one of my favorite times of the year.”

As such, he’s looking forward to facing Crosby and the Penguins in Halifax on Monday.

“I've still got posters of the Penguins and Sid on my wall at my parents' house, so it's pretty fun now that me and Sid have built a relationship and we're buddies," Batherson said. "It's pretty cool looking back on it.”

It was a tough spring and summer for Nova Scotia.

In late May and early June, wildfires raged through the outskirts of Halifax and throughout the province. More than 16,000 people were forced to evacuate as a result, many eventually returning to find their homes were nothing more than heaps of smoldering ashes.

Less than two months later, the area was hit with record rainfall that caused historic flooding. Water did seep into Crosby’s home, though to nowhere near the extent of some others where people pretty much lost everything.

“The area has been through a lot,” he said. “But the great thing about some of these communities, and the area in general, is that everyone sticks together and everyone’s willing to help each other.

“I think when you’ve seen adverse times here over the years, you’ve seen people come together more and more. And I think we take a lot of pride in that here. The fact that people know they can depend on each other is huge. I think we’ve shown that time and time again, and there’s pride that comes with that.”

Crosby is doing his part to teach local kids exactly that.

On Sunday, the Penguins will hold a practice at Cole Harbour Place. Hundreds of children from the local minor hockey systems have been invited to attend and take part in a Q&A session with some Pittsburgh players and, with a select few kids getting to go on the ice with them.

Part of that group will be kids from minor hockey whose families lost their homes in the fires. Crosby specifically wanted them to attend, with Mason helping to make it happen. Given the trauma they and their families have gone through, it is Crosby’s way of trying to brighten up their lives, even if it’s just for one afternoon.

“That’s Sid, right?” Greenwood said. “He’s going to have an impact on these kids, both on the ice and off.”

He already has.

In 2009, Crosby established the Sidney Crosby Foundation, an organization that improves the lives of children who are sick or struggling. More recently, Crosby and several foundation board members created Nova Scotia Showdown T-shirts heading into the game Monday, with proceeds going to his foundation.

“He’s helping young kids who are going through hard times, and he’s being a role model for young hockey players in the province,” Mason said. “He’s going out of his way to show his Penguins a good time here, and he’s being a great ambassador for the community.”

Greenwood agrees.

“It’s a privilege,” he said, “to say you live in the same place as someone like that.”