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Outdoor skating has been a favourite pastime in Halifax for many years, dating back to the late 1800s when the Starr Manufacturing Company began producing some of Canada’s first skates right here in Dartmouth. Municipalities have organised community skating events, at the Frog Pond, Lake Banook, Chocolate Lake and Bedford's Mayor’s Skate. The City of Halifax even had a small skating area at Historic Properties!
HRM Archives 102-106-1-8, Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Studios
Can you identify these exuberant skaters outside Historic Properties? If these faces look familiar, or if you have further information about past community skating events, email archives@halifax.ca, or call 490-4643 and help us put names to their fancy footwork.
Bedford Mayor's Skate
1989
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HRM Archives 2006-005 |
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Chocolate Lake
Skating Party
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These photographs form part of a large collection of Recreation Department photographs documenting recreation activities and facilities throughout Halifax. They have been processed by contract archivist Dave Cogswell, through a project aimed at making over 10,000 photographs accessible to the public via the HRM Archives Database.
HRM Archives gratefuly acknowledges Provincial Archival Development Program funding for this project through Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management and the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage.
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