Halifax Engineering Plans

City of Halifax City Engineer's Office plans related to post-Explosion reconstruction (102-39P)

As the City of Halifax worked with the Halifax Relief Commission to plan and re-develop the devastated areas many maps, architectural plans and technical drawings were created. Below is a list of maps and plans from the Engineering and Works Department that relate to the rebuilding of the North End.

Plans can be viewed at the Municipal Archives. Digital copies and more details about the plans may be added later.

Nova Scotia Archives also holds many plans of the Halifax Relief Commission

  • X-10-4093 – 1917/12/19 – Diagram to locate manholes at Exhibition Park - Halifax Explosion
  • O-5-4156 – 1917/12/24 – Layout of emergency shelter buildings, water mains, sewers, etc. at Exhibition Grounds (after Halifax Explosion)
  • X-10-4089 to X-10-4092 – 1917/12/22 – Profile of sewer pipes from Relief Houses at Exhibition Park - Halifax Explosion
  • X-11-4104 – [ca. 1918] – Map of City of Halifax - signal boxes - Halifax Explosion
  • Z-3-4557 – 1918 – Halifax Relief - Richmond, cross sections of proposed street layouts in devastated areas - Halifax Explosion
  • X-1-4094 – 1918/01/16 – Chain Lakes - Plan showing rearrangement of Barracks to accommodate 17 families (barracks) - Halifax Explosion
  • X-9-4124 – 1918/03/12 – Site of Military Huts on North Common. See report of City Engineer. Military Hospital [Halifax Explosion?]
  • X-9-4126 – [between 1915 and 1925] – Plan of building to be used as temporary shop - Halifax Explosion related (?)
  • Y-7-4418 – 1918/03/16 – Garrison Ground - Plan of water and sewerage connections with Ontario apartment tenements - Halifax Explosion
  • X-6-4225 – 1918/06/29 – CNR - Plan Of Proposed Siding For Relief Commission
  • J-5-5944A – 1918-07-18 – Halifax Relief Commission, Plan of Highfield Division
  • Y-3-4339 – 1918/07/19 – Halifax Relief Commission - Plan Of The Western Portion Of Highfield By Pickings
  • JJ-5-5944 – 1918/07/19 – Halifax Relief Commission - Plan Of Western Portion Of Highfield Subdivision by Pickings
  • CC-1-5904 to CC-1-5905 – 1918/08/29 – Halifax Relief Commission - Block Plan Layout
  • FF-1-7565 – [19--] – Halifax Relief Commission plan of the Hydrostone area
  • Z-8-4691 – 1918/12/10 – Sidewalks - Sidewalk and curb layout to Courts and Streets in devastated area - Halifax Explosion
  • Z-7-4674 – [ca. 1918] – Halifax Relief Commission - Record Of Sewage System
  • H-4-7644 – [n.d.] – Plan of Town Planning scheme - Halifax Relief Commission
  • H?-4-5936 – 1918 – Plan and section of by Relief Commission
  • AA-3-4875 – 1919/05/01 – Halifax Relief Commission - Profile Of Streets In Hennessey Field Subdivision including grades for sewers
  • KK-4-8636 – 1919/12/06 – Plan - Halifax Relief Commission - Property of Murdoch Jewers
  • GG-6-7957 to GG-6-7959 – [1919] – House for F.M. Upham. 30 Russell Street. [Includes elevations, floor plans; stamped: Halifax Relief Commission]
  • CC-1-5722 – 1919 – Halifax Relief Commission - Sewage System West Of Gottingen Street
  • FF-3-8932 – [191-?] – Halifax Relief Commission plan proposing exchange of lands, Russell to Duffus & Barrington to Isleville Streets
  • FF-2-11456 – [n.d.] – Town Planning Scheme. Halifax Relief Commission
  • O-5-4155 – [191?] – NS Provincial Exhibition Arrangement of relief houses, water and sewer pipes
  • AA-6-5190 to AA-6-5194 – 1920/04/15 – Halifax Relief Commission Street Paving
  • J-1-5749 – 1920/04/15 – Halifax Relief Commission - Street Paving Profiles
  • BB-2-4906 – 1920/08/21 – Plan Of Barber Shop For F. Purcell and letter from Halifax Relief Commission giving permission to build
  • H-4-2283 – [n.d.] – Rosebank Park - Halifax Relief Corporation Ltd.
  • AA-4-5061 – 1921/01/19 – Plan of Properties in vicinity of City Yard Magazine - Temporary Explosion victim shelters - Camp Hill Hospital
  • AA-7-5239 – 1922/01 – Plan of Proposed Division of St. Paul's Glebe Lands, referred to in Report to the Town Planning Board - Relates to Halifax Explosion
  • OO-1-10522 – 1922/01/12 – Plan - Hydrostone Development (southern section) from Young St. To Stanley St. And between Gottingen St. And Isleville Street. Halifax Relief Commission
  • OO-1-10523S – 1922/01/12 – Halifax / Hydrostone Development - Plan of Subdivision (Southern Section ) Plan by Halifax Relief Commission
  • JJ-5-9023 – [ca. 1941] – Halifax Relief Commission -Shows area between Acadia and Gottingen Streets
  • JJ-5-9090 – [between 1940 and 1945] – Property owned by the Halifax Relief Commission
  • LL-2-9857 – [n.d.] – Showing Property Surveyed for Halifax Relief Commission
  • MM-6-10216 – [194-] – Roper Plan - area bounded by Robie, Leed's, railway. Preparation for subdivision. Halifax Relief Commission
  • MM-1-9624 – 1945/08/07 – Plan showing properties owned by Halifax Relief Commission
  • MM-1-9662 – 1945/09/07 – Robie Street proposal for Prefab Houses. Halifax Relief Commission
  • OO-18-30490 – 1946/07/18 – Properties surveyed for Halifax Relief Commission. Surveyed by Charles P. Roper, P.L.S. (Note: this is the same plan as MM-5-10074 which was missing from the files at microfilming. Copies were obtained on this date from the Roper files in the possession of Servant, Dunbrack, Mckenzie & Macdonald Ltd.)
  • MM-3-9936 – 1946/12/10 – Property of Halifax Relief Commission - Civic lot #1613 - by Roper
  • MM-3-9908 – 1946/12/11 – Formerly Hartlen Property. Halifax Relief Commission
  • MM-3-9936 – [n.d.]  – Plan showing property of Halifax Relief Commission Civic Lot (1613)
  • MM-3-9935 – 1946/12/29 – Properties surveyed for Relief Commission by Roper - retraced in 1964
  • OO-5-12339 – 1946/12/29 – Halifax Relief Commission Plan showing properties surveyed for the above Roper Plan - Approved Feb. 9 1953
  • MM-5-10074 – 1946/12/29 – Plan Showing properties surveyed by Roper (revised from July 18th/1946 plan) Devonshire, Veith Street area. Halifax Relief Commission
  • XX-16 –  1947/09/15 – Plan Showing Property Of Halifax Relief Commission - Robie Street [# Assigned by Archives]
  • MM-7-10314 – 1947/12/19 – Plan - Property of the Halifax Relief Commission – Robie and Leeds
  • MM-7-10353 – 1948/01/27 – Plan - Halifax Relief Commission devastated area showing plan's #1 to 13 [See FF-3-10354 to FF-3-10366]
  • OO-1-11120 – 1949/11/15 – Plan - Hartlen Subdivision staked for Halifax Relief Commission by Bates - Approved Nov. 29 1949
  • QQ-1-11612 – 1950/12/19 – Gottingen Street showing stake set at lane for Halifax Relief Commission. Commissioner of Works
  • QQ-4-11913 – 1951/08/12 – Tracing of C. Dickey. Sketch of North End Halifax - Africville. Halifax Relief Commission [Includes Carvery houses]
  • OO-5-12172 – 1952/09/18 – Plan - Block "L", pre-fab subdivision Land deeded to City of Halifax from Halifax Relief Commission - Snook Plan
  • OO-5-12214 – 1952/07/17 – Plan - subdivision showing lots "A, B, C and D of the Halifax Relief Commission property by Nolan
  • FF-2-12308 – 1953/01/05 – Plan showing land from Halifax Relief Commission to City of Halifax
  • OO-6-12378 – 1953/03/23 – Halifax Relief Commission plan subdivision lots E, F, G, H, and I on Union Street (Nolan Plan) Approved April 28 1953
  • RR-1-12652 – [n.d.] – Subdivision Halifax Relief Commission Property on Memorial Dr. (Nolan Plan) not submitted to Town Planning
  • OO-7-12693 – 1953/08/25 – Subdivision Halifax Relief Commission Property on Memorial Dr. (Nolan Plan) Approved April 8, 1954
  • SS-8-15345 – [n.d.] – Prison land - Plan showing part of Hartlen Property (Halifax Relief Commission) Nolan Plan
  • OO-9-14912 – 1960/08/08 – Plan - Subdivision Halifax Relief Commission and Brown Builders Property - (Nolan Plan) approved Sept. 15 1960
  • TT-8-17187 – 1962/03 – Plan, parcel "Z" of the Halifax Relief Commission property
  • TT-8-17187 – 1962/03/16 – Plan of Parcel Z of Halifax Relief Commission property
  • TT-9-17409 – 1968/05/17 – Plan showing property owned by the Halifax Relief Commission to be conveyed to the City of Halifax
  • TT-10-17695 – 1969/09/16 – Halifax Plan Showing Lands conveyed: City to William Coughran, Lot A Halifax Relief Commission to City Lot B, street purposes Lot C
  • TT-35-27844 – 1984/08/17 – Halifax/North End/Fort Needham - Plan showing lands to form part of license agreement between City of Halifax and Halifax Explosion Memorial Bells Committee