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The Morris Street Engine House has been declared a municipal heritage property!
#Halifax’s Fire Station #2, as it is also called, was built 1907-08 of reinforced concrete.
Here's the story!
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#Halifax’s Fire Station #2, as it is also called, was built 1907-08 of reinforced concrete.
Here's the story!
#nspoli @HFXFireHistory @HRMFireNews @hfxfire @HFXFirefighters @hfxgov @MikeSavageHFX
Concrete is a mixture of aggregates and paste. The aggregates are sand and gravel or crushed stone; the paste is water and portland cement. (The terms cement and concrete are often used interchangeably, but cement is actually an ingredient of concrete...
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...Cement is the glue that holds concrete together.)
Reinforced concrete means the concrete is poured over a frame, usually steel bars, that give the structure greater strength.
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Reinforced concrete means the concrete is poured over a frame, usually steel bars, that give the structure greater strength.
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We love getting questions about mining, minerals and geology! We were asked about the historical #Londonderry #iron mines. Here's the story...
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Iron mining and smelting began in #NovaScotia in 1825 when iron mines opened at Nictaux Falls, #AnnapolisCounty, and the Annapolis Iron Mining Company built a blast furnace at Clementsport between #AnnapolisRoyal and #Digby.
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Iron has also been mined in numerous other locations in #NovaScotia, including East River, Bridgeville and Stellarton (#PictouCounty), Brookfield and Economy Mountain (#ColchesterCounty), Erinville and other places in #GuysboroughCounty...
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Nova Scotia #salt saved lives this winter – all our road salt comes from the #Pugwash salt mine. With snowstorms now over (we hope!), here’s a history of salt mining in #NovaScotia!
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327-342 million years ago, global sea levels rose and fell many times. This repeatedly flooded #NovaScotia with what we call the Windsor Sea. #NS was near the equator at the time so the sea also evaporated repeatedly in the heat.
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The evaporation of sea water left deposits of successive layers of salt. This process was repeated for millions of years until the original salt beds were far below earth’s surface. Subterranean pressures and heat compressed the salt into #NovaScotia’s huge rock #salt deposits.
It's not hard to guess how Quarry Island got its name!
It was one of a number of sites in #PictouCounty that were quarried for grindstones in the 1800s and 1900s.
Here's the history of quarrying on the island!
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It was one of a number of sites in #PictouCounty that were quarried for grindstones in the 1800s and 1900s.
Here's the history of quarrying on the island!
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@TimHoustonNS @karla_macf_pc @SeanFraserMP
Nova Scotia grindstones – round pieces of sandstone used for sharpening tools – were first extracted by Acadians starting around 1750 in #LowerCove and other sites on #ChignectoBay. They were the first grindstones extracted in #Canada.
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Lower Cove became the province’s biggest exporter of grindstones in the 1800s but between 1840-1865 Read, Seaman and Company operated numerous sandstone quarries in the vicinity of Pictou and Merigomish harbours.
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A #NovaScotian co-discovered the Klondike's #gold...but it wasn't the happy occasion you'd think!
Robert Henderson was born in #Pictou County in 1857. He became obsessed with finding gold after reading Alaskan histories as a child.
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Robert Henderson was born in #Pictou County in 1857. He became obsessed with finding gold after reading Alaskan histories as a child.
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@TimHoustonNS @karla_macf_pc
He left home at the age of 14, prospecting for #gold in Australia, New Zealand, and Colorado, before heading to the Canadian north. He arrived in the Yukon in 1894 and prospected several areas before Joe Ladue convinced him to try Indian River.
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Ladue, a miner and sawmill operator, believed the unexplored Indian River had great potential and he grubstaked Henderson to explore the area in exchange for a share of any profits.
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We love getting questions about #mining, #minerals and #geology!
We were recently asked about historical #coal mining in #Thorburn, #NovaScotia. Here’s our answer:
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We were recently asked about historical #coal mining in #Thorburn, #NovaScotia. Here’s our answer:
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@ns_moi @NS_Museum The #Pictou coalfield is roughly 18x6 km and comprises 15 major coal seams in the #Westville, #Stellarton, and #Thorburn-Greenwood areas. Although small, the coalfield has produced about 55 million tonnes in the last two centuries.
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@ns_moi @NS_Museum #Coal was discovered in the #Pictou coalfield around 1790 by Scottish settlers. The first substantive #mining operation was Collier John MacKay’s mine, sunk in 1809 on the west side of #EastRiver.
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#nspoli #NovaScotia #NS
We love getting questions about #mining, #minerals and #geology! We were recently asked about historical #copper mining in the #CaribouRiver area of #PictouCounty. Here’s our answer:
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@TimHoustonNS @karla_macf_pc Several pits were dug at the #CaribouRiver #copper occurrence in 1828 by the General #Mining Association, an #English company that was granted a monopoly on #NovaScotian #coal reserves from 1827-1857.
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@TimHoustonNS @karla_macf_pc GMA spent 271 pounds but did not find enough copper to justify continuing exploration.
In 1916 a few shallow shafts were sunk at the site. In 1977 the prospect was field checked by the Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy, but no mineralization was found in outcrop.
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In 1916 a few shallow shafts were sunk at the site. In 1977 the prospect was field checked by the Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy, but no mineralization was found in outcrop.
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