#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!

[rabbitcruiser]

The government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker decided to consolidate the duties of the Marine Service of the Department of Transport and on January 26, 1962, the Canadian Coast Guard was formed as a subsidiary of DOT.

[solarphoto]

the map becomes the territory may 14

[fazmid]

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).

[stromcuzewon]

listen, i've gotten a lot of really stupid tags on the moosehead post, but calling halifax nova scotia the middle of nowhere might be the stupidest of them all

[finlaure13]

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

[zochrome]

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[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]

[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…

[intheupside]

When Drew Doughty got his first taste of best-on-best hockey, he was the youngest member of Team Canada at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and things didn’t start so well for him.

Naturally, it was a conversation with one of the “veterans” that helped him reverse course and turn the event into a career-shifting experience.

Never mind that the player was just two years, four months and one day older than Doughty. It was the type of player who was born a veteran.

It was Sidney Crosby.

“He was young,” Doughty recalls, “but I remember after one of our first practices I was walking onto the bus and he was like, ‘Hey, come sit beside me.’ That was the first time I had a real conversation with him. He knew I was nervous as hell, and he brought me in and sat me down.”

In addition to the physical and mental gifts that made him one of the sport’s few truly generational players, the 37-year-old possesses a level of awareness and emotional intelligence that have taken him to another level entirely.

As close friend Nathan MacKinnon puts it: “I’m sure there’s a lot of successful people that no one really wants to be around, but guys just gravitate towards him. He’s got an awesome personality. He’s a great storyteller. He’s just a fun guy to be around.”

MacKinnon says it’s Crosby’s first time playing with a team full of his biggest fans and, while half-joking, that sentiment rings true. Doughty and Brad Marchand are the only players he’s previously won with. And ask the younger players on the roster about their personal encounters with No. 87 during this event and they light up.

Mitch Marner says his overtime winner over Sweden was surreal because it came on an assist from his boyhood hero. Thomas Harley calls Crosby a “god,” adding, “You’ll go blind if you look at him too long.” And 23-year-old Seth Jarvis is still buzzing about the fact Crosby took the time to introduce himself following a Carolina Hurricanes-Pittsburgh Penguins game in January.

“Well, f—,” Jarvis says. “I wasn’t about to approach him. I’d be a little starstruck.”

You can take the boy out of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, but fame and fortune never took any of the Cole Harbour out of Crosby.

Marchand could only chuckle during a recent dinner at his buddy’s house in suburban Pittsburgh when he walked into the living room and saw a rocking chair made entirely out of wood from Halifax.

“That’s what he sits in every day,” Marchand says. “He’s just a very down-to-earth guy, which at his level and the things that he’s accomplished doesn’t happen often. A tremendous amount of respect for him.”

Everyone here does.

so beloved

[muttball]

The Halifax Harbour Hopper

[ltwilliammowett]

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

Photo: W.R. MacAskill