Cool Forgotten Parts Of Nova Scotia

In this video, I talk about Cool Forgotten Parts Of Nova Scotia
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00:00 - Introduction
00:07 - The Halifax Zoological Garden
01:02 - The Old Railroad Network
01:42 - Moore's Landing Restaurant
02:17 - Aspotogan Sea Spa
03:06 - The Halifax Peninsula Street Car System

[@Halifaxrealtor]

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[@luciennegreb]

Crazy to imagine that NS used to have such a dense railroad network ... It would be SOOOOOO usefull nowadays

[@leejames929]

100% its really sad we lost it

[@trinomial-nomenclature]

It's used for four-wheelers, dirt bikes, etc nowadays.

[@rarm8505]

Now, it would take so much money to build those infrastructure back up. I believe this would have been a huge factor in today’s transportation and commerce.

[@dianedee7919]

I used to travel to college by passenger train, or head to Halifax before I had a car. It was so great, comfortable and friendly.

[@crigger]

Nova Scotia had the first revolving door in North America in cape breton at a hotel. I forget the name of the place now. Worth looking into

[@Halifaxrealtor]

It seems to be called the "Broughton Arms Hotel". Many sources say it had the first revolving door in NA (including Saltwire). Others say it was Rectors in Manhattan. I'll do more digging and likely will put this in a future video. Thanks

[@crigger]

@@Halifaxrealtor No worries, I’ll keep my eye open for that!

[@herbjergens6350]

Wow...great info, thank you. I sure do miss that restaurant on Queensland beach!! 😊

[@ianmp2167]

As a railway enthusiast, i find it sad how even the NSRHS forgot many logging and mining railways on their Railways of Nova Scotia maps. With some of them having very interesting stories to them, like the Weymouth and New France Railway, i am sure some people would like to see it added so they can discover them!

[@Halifaxrealtor]

Thanks for mentioning this. I did some Googling on New France (Electric City), and that's a story in itself. Also, you may like this. We actually filmed in the Musquodoboit Railway Museum for one of our listing videos: th-cam.com/video/Do0RdPbJNks/w-d-xo.html

[@dpcnreactions7062]

I remember the old Dayliners as they went past my elementary school.

[@daver7465]

Had a beer once at Moore's Landing, was a nice spot!

[@funkophone]

Grew up going to Queensland & Moore's Landing. Bummer when it burnt down

[@trinomial-nomenclature]

I live in Pubnico, a little North of Yarmouth and I was hoping you would have covered the old "house" on the Tusket Islands. It wasn't like the fishing shanties occuping the islands, it had more of a Mediterranean style, which is not common for Nova Scotia.
When I was little, all that was left were the exterior walls, which seemed to be made of concrete or cinder blocks covered in white paint or something and most of the floors, however, they would easily cave in and some people had fallen through them. The roof was reddish (I think), not sure if they were tiles or shingles. I was told that it has been recently torn down, due to the danger it posed.

[@Halifaxrealtor]

That's really interesting. I haven't heard of that before. Is it the home mentioned here?: th-cam.com/video/a8BwMQJCeGM/w-d-xo.html

[@trinomial-nomenclature]

@@Halifaxrealtor I think so, I don't remember the little "house" next to it, but it's been probably 20 years since I last saw it. Also I guess I was wrong about the exterior walls having white paint.
In the video from your link, at the 13:54 mark, it shows the person's foot going through the floor, it was so dangerous, yet us kids would play around in there lol.
I'm surprised you looked it up, thank you for that, it was really sweet of you!

[@Halifaxrealtor]

@@trinomial-nomenclature You're very welcome. I'll see if I can find anything else about it.

[@trinomial-nomenclature]

@@Halifaxrealtor Thank you. Sorry for the last response.

[@BurchellAtTheWharf]

#CanadianFlavoredFlorida was and is quite the spot

[@BurchellAtTheWharf]

That restaurant is gone now
2:01

[@DB-gr7ch]

I remember discovering the Aspotogan spa site by complete accident in about the summer of 2000....didn't know why it was there, just the spookiest, most surreal thing I've ever seen.
I couldn't begin to conceive how much money must have been wasted putting all that ugly concrete there, and how it could never possibly be feasible to ever remove it....just a huge blight on the planet that would be a permanent monument to the arrogance of greed and terribly bad taste.

[@Halifaxrealtor]

That would have been really neat just stumbling upon it like that.

[@DB-gr7ch]

@@Halifaxrealtor It was jarring, not enjoyable in any way. Totally creeped us both out. The waste of resources, the stark architectural ugliness, the ruined coastline...yuck.
It had that reek of a typical ACOA scandal..!?

[@eckosters]

That’s the one thing in this video that I had never heard of. Important lesson: vacationers who come to our amazing Province don’t come to sit in the kind of hotel you can find anywhere else in the world.
However, it would be nice if tourists AND Nova Scotians could enjoy exploring the Province by train (again).

[@DB-gr7ch]

@@eckosters Then why does the world have so many of exactly these kinds of dooshbag-catering monstrosities?

[@mariemacisaac7529]

Can yiu get a picture of Halifax Train station before the explosion?

[@Halifaxrealtor]

I haven't come across one, but you may be able to find one at the Halifax Municipal Archives. They're very friendly & helpful there and it's often empty.

[@heinrichwall5581]

In the cover picture there's a bridge over the water that looks like the Maitland railroad bridge, but there's nothing about that in the video.

[@Halifaxrealtor]

I'm not sure which bridge it is, but it's from a postcard of the Bluenose train. Here's an article that mentions it: ca.news.yahoo.com/remembering-stunning-bluenose-flew-along-090000803.html?

[@heinrichwall5581]

Thanks for sending me the link, it was a very interesting article.

[@kiabuineric3095]

Hoping to study in Dartmouth next Fall pls can u help me get a bedroom?

[@Halifaxrealtor]

I don't work in rentals, but your best best is to check Facebook Marketplace, Kijiji and you may want to look into a new app called Happipad.com - I haven't used the site before, but they are even being promoted by our Minister of Housing

[@Mme.Swisstella]

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[@user-bw8su6ii1m]

There are/were many other interesting things in this province. I hope you will document more.
One quibble: The Armdale Rotary is now a traffic circle. The term "rotary" should be retired in all cases where rotaries have become traffic circles because the rules of the road regarding them are different.
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[@Halifaxrealtor]

That's a good one. Funny enough, one of the regulars at the dog park I frequent mentioned that to me a few weeks ago. He's an engineer who works on the Province's Highways.

[@unkolawdio]

Bye

[@damnyousmutims2009]

Got to explore the spa before it got demolished. Another cool place to see before it’s completely in the ground is the Teleglobe satellite station in Mill Village from the 60’s. Who knew NS had anything like that for satellite communications. Super cool place minus the ticks…

[@Halifaxrealtor]

Thanks for mentioning this. I've never heard of it before. I'll feature this in a future video. Here's an article I found on it: wend.ca/?p=89359 and here's a video when it was operational: th-cam.com/video/O_Luk0mFNzo/w-d-xo.html