Unidentified Building, MacLaughlan album 1 number 80
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 1 number 80
Inside back cover - Hfx Explosion Dec 6/17
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031
229 Windmill Road, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 151
Note: Corner of Windmill Road and Grove Street — appears to be a house under construction.
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 151
Williston Foundry, Grove Street, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 152
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 152
Unidentified Building, MacLaughlan album 2 number 154
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 154
218 Windmill Road, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 156
Note: The Halifax Relief Commission built a new home on this property for Bessie and John Baxter and their family.
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 156
216 Windmill Road, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 157
Note: Florence Huxtable and her father Robert, a retired patent maker, lived at 216 Windmill Road.
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 157
53 Hester Street, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 159
Note: Martin Behan, teamster, his wife Blanche, and their children lived at 53 Hester Street (now 48 Hester Street), Dartmouth.
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 159
55 Hester Street, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 160
Note: Laura and John Dillman raised 10 children in this house at 55 Hester Street (now 50 Hester Street), Dartmouth.
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 160
57 Hester Street, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 161
Note: Bertha and Alton Dillman lived at 57 Hester Street (now 54 Hester Street), Dartmouth. They had 7 children. After the Explosion, the family returned to live at this address, in a new house built by the Halifax Relief Commission.
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 161
75 Hester Street, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 162
Note: William Beckwith, retired shipwright and north-end ferry operator, and his wife Eliza lived at 75 Hester Street (now 60 Hester Street), Dartmouth. After the Explosion, they returned to this address, and lived in a new house built by the Halifax Relief Commission.
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 162
West side of Hester Street, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 163
Note: Duplex at 49-51 Hester Street, Dartmouth (current number) was repaired following the Explosion and is still standing in 2018.
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 163
Unidentified Building, MacLaughlan album 2 number 164
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 164
45 Hester Street, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 165
Note: Widow Mary (Higgins) Wright and her young son lived at 45 Hester Street (now 36 Hester Street), Dartmouth. In her published first-person account of the Explosion, Mary's daughter, Gertrude (Wright) Pettipas, described the house as being "almost a total ruin."
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 165
32 Hester Street, Dartmouth, MacLaughlan album 2 number 166
Note: 32 Hester Street (now 33 Hester Street), Dartmouth was repaired after the Explosion.
Reference: W.G. MacLaughlan Nova Scotia Archives 2014-031 album 2 number 166
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