Halifax Peninsula Up to the 1960's

• Events throughout the city that affected downtown urban form:

• Citadel (1749) and other Fortifications, naval dockyards (1758) key to city's physical layout

• electric street cars from 1896

• Hydrostone residential area reconstruction (1920's) after Halifax Explosion

• 1920's-30's improvement of south end port facilities:
  • railway terminal
  • railway station
  • warehouses at railhead
  • industry adjacent to deep water terminals

• Simpson's (1920's) - one of first suburban department stores in Canada, located at end of street car line

• Westmount subdivision (1940's) - modelled on Radburn plan

• McNab Plan (1945) recommended:
  • several new thoroughfares cutting through existing neighbourhoods
  • massive slum clearance and redevelopment to increase tax revenues

• Angus L. MacDonald bridge (1955)

• Mulgrave Park public housing (1950's) housed Market St. clearance area population.

• first shopping centres - Bayers Road (1956), Halifax (1962)

• Eatons' leaves Barrington St. for Hfx. Shopping Centre (1962)

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