HALIFAX



I created the above map by overlaying an OpenStreetMap (OSM) map with my own data. Copyright on the OSM map is © OpenStreetMap & Contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).

Please note that the OSM map used as a template for this map corresponds to the situation at the time the map was downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, it may show bridges and highways that were built later.

However, the two bridges across Halifax Harbous were deleted from the above map, as they did not exist yet in 1945.

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ROUTES

Operator: Nova Scotia Light and Power Company, Ltd.

URBAN STREETCAR ROUTES

1	Belt Line	Downtown (Prince St.) - Barrington St. - Spring Garden Rd. - Coburg Rd. – Quinpool Rd. - Cogswell St. - Barrington St. - Downtown (Prince St.) [Circular route, clockwise]
2	Belt Line	Downtown (Prince St.) - Barrington St. - Cogswell St. - Quinpool Rd. - Coburg Rd. – Spring Garden Rd. - Barrington St. - Downtown (Prince St.) [Circular route, counterclockwise]
3	Richmond	Halifax Station - Hollis St. - Gottingen St. - Duffus St.
4	Oxford	Quinpool Rd. - Cogswell St. - Barrington St. - Young St.
5	Armdale	Halifax Station - Hollis St. - Cogswell St. - Quinpool Rd. - Chebucto Rd.
6	Dingle	Halifax Harbour - Barrington St. - Spring Garden Rd. - Coburg Rd. – Dalhousie
7	South Park - Inglis	Inglis St. - Barrington St. - Cogswell St. - Gottingen St. - Agricola St. - Almon St. - Windsor St. - Cogswell St. - Barrington St. - Spring Garden Rd. - South Park St. - Inglis St. [Circular route with counterclockwise loops at both ends]
8	Windsor - Inglis	Inglis St. - South Park St. - Spring Garden Rd. - Barrington St. - Cogswell St. - Windsor St. - Almon St. - Agricola St. - Gottingen St. - Cogswell St. - Barrington St. - Inglis St. [Circular route with clockwise loops at both ends]
9	Pt. Pleasant Park	Halifax Harbour - Barrington St. - Inglis St. - Tower Rd. - Point Pleasant Park

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Streetcar lines: ? km.



HISTORY

• Streetcars: (Horse-drawn) 11 Jun 1866 - 21 Oct. 1886; 17 May 1876 - 31 May 1886; (Electric) 12 Feb. 1896 - 28 Apr. 1949.

GAUGE

• ? mm.

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SOURCES

PRINT

• Halifax - Nova Scotia [Sheet map] Halifax: Maritime Merchant Ltd., 1945

WEB SITES

• Halifax and its People 1749-1999 - Transportation and Communication
• Halifaxʼs Streetcars: Connections Between Transportation and Urban Form (2007 Thesis by Sean Gillis)