The Royal Engineers in Halifax

Piers note: No. 398. Residences of Military People, etc.: Large residence and barn, west side Oxford Street, 500 feet South of Coburg Road, Halifax, built by John T. Wylde in 1871 or 1872, in which Dy. Quartermaster General Almor(?) S. Cameron lived in 1881, and Major Richard Nagle, Town Major, in 1883. It was later the residence of Frederick Hart and now D.M. Owen. It adjoins, to south, the similar residence, "Oakville", built at same time by Levi Hart. Looking West-northwest from west edge of "Studley" field; looking directly towards the bridge at head of Northwest Arm. Oxford Street is in foreground. In distance, near the Arm Bridge, St. James (Church of England) and Bethany Presbyterian Churches, and Henderson and Pott's large stone Paint Works (formerly Black's Grist Mill), burnt down about 1887, on stream from Chocolate Lake; also Hosterman's houses. At left is top of Robert Morrow's "Bircham". Near the barn is an old wooden lamp-post (for oil lamp) with street-sign, as used in the suburbs before 1884. Angle of view 28 degrees.

Date.: ca. 1880

Reference: Royal Engineers Nova Scotia Archives number 7033 (Piers 398) / negative N-1452