Description
View in the album titled "Sketches in NovaScotia / 1817", by John Elliott Woolford. Halifax from Fort Clarence
Inscription
Caption on album page, underneath watercolour: "Halifax from Fort Clarence." On upper right of watercolour, "View from Fort Clarence" written faintly in pencil. Faint pencil labels of landmarks in watercolour. "1" in pencil in upper left corner.
Image Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Image Credit
Courtesy of Nova Scotia Museum
Location
Fort Clarence, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Country
Canada
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
In 1929 Imperial Oil purchased the site, which became part of their Dartmouth Refinery and the remaining parts of the fort were buried in the 1940s. The refinery was converted to an oil storage depot in 2013.