Nova Scotia Archives
'An East Coast Port': Halifax in Wartime, 1939-1945
Convoy in Bedford Basin
Mayfair, October 1945, included this photograph with the accompanying caption, "Famous Bedford Basin, upper end of Halifax Harbor, dramatically shows the shift from war to peace conditions of 'East Coast Port.' Here the great convoys were made up. Pictures taken from the air in 1942 ... show wartime congestion of shipping"
Date: 1942
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Anonymous Oversize Collection: 1987-82.89