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The Royal Engineers in Halifax

Ives Point Battery, McNab's Island

Piers note: No. 222. Ives Point Battery: Interior, showing emplacements of 5 R.M.L. Guns on the west front, with intervening (?) Expense Cartridge Store and Expense Shell Stores; top of Barrack Casements (No. 102) with their two gun emplacements, in left foreground, and, below, Artillery Store for Small Stores; in distance, well. Halifax and George's Island in distance. Probably about or after 1876. Looking Northwest towards Citadel, Halifax, from top of Barrack Casemates. Similar, but not quite the same as No. 283.

Date.: ca. 1876

Reference: Royal Engineers Nova Scotia Archives number 6907 (Piers 222) / negative N-8559

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