Two-hundred years of the History of Fairview exist in a book by Devonna and Don Edwards called " The Little Dutch Village" Enter (Fairview ,Nova Scotia) for the Wikipedia take on Fairview.
Charlie the Indian lived in the woods behind where the Centenniel Arena is today, he lived near a beautiful waterfall, made bows and arrows, worked as a gardener for "Ravenswood", near Mumford Rd, where the NS teacher's Union building is today. Charlie also bootlegged. His son, Freddie the Indian went to school with us. He lived in what was known as the quarry,which I think is filled in today. The old ARP (air raid patrol) dam was above the quarry and from there flowed the waterfall.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
My first memory of Fairview was the Bedford Naval Magazine blowing up. I was 3 and 1/2 years old, all the windows in our house broke and the fireplace never was used again because of damage. We were evacuated to Timberlea on the Bay road. I have a vague memory of being in a big building all night. I think it was where the legion is today in Timberlea.
I remember the Fairview overpass, when it was the Fairvew underpass. It flooded so bad, water would come in car doors trying to get to the city.
We carried golf bags at Ashburn for eighteen holes for fifty cents.
The students at Mt.Saint Vincent Academy had chores before and after school, they had to collect eggs, milk cows, and hoe the garden, the Mount was self -sufficient like most institutions in those days. I remember the Motherhouse burning down in the early fifties, it was so cold that night, the water from firehouses was freezing, before it got to the fire.
We skated on Deals Pond, where the Bayer's Road Shopping Centre is today. We also skated on a pond at the top of Melrose ave. That pond no longer exists.
Bad Catholic boys went to St. Patricks Home for Boys where the Halifax shopping center is today on Mumford road, bad Protestant boys went to Shelburne, later they all went to Shelburne.
I remember the Queen as a princess, newly wed, driving by in a glass top car at the bottom of Evans Avenue.
We sometimes took the train to go shopping at Simpsons where the West -End Mall is today.
Us boys took the train to the movies at Armdale, but we rode the rails, just like railroad bums.
Sometimes we even walked on top of moving boxcars, just like the cowboys in the movies.
In the summer we often hitchhiked to Horseshoe Island on the North West Arm to swim, or we hitch-hiked to Bedford to swim at Moir's Dam.
We swam off the rocks in Fairview Cove right behind White Rose Oil , we were always in the water on May 24th week-end. There was much more sewage in the basin in those days than now, we just pushed it aside and jumped in!
The Wandlyn Motel was once called Middlemore Home, a home for British refugee children?
Bob Cole, owned " The Biggest Little Service Station in the Maritimes", he usually had a parrot or monkey there to entertain kids, it was located across from the quarry, now a car dealership.
We would think nothing of going to the top of Main Avenue (Geizers Hill) where the TV tower is, then through the woods to Suzie's Lake to swim.
We followed the garbage man,doing his rounds with horse and wagon while reciting this little ditty:" Sam, Sam, the garbage man, washed his face in a frying pan, combed his hair, with the leg of a chair ,and died with a toothache in his ear."
We hunted, fished and snared rabbits where Clayton Park is today. I remember Mr. Snyder shooting a deer off his back doorstep where Sobey's is located.
Many Fairview men worked for Canadian National Railways, the roundhouse where locomotives were serviced and repaired, the Rockingham yards with hundreds of boxcars, also Fairview train station. Many single men from out of town slept and ate at Brown's Resthouse in Fairview Cove.
Irving oil had a jetty in Fairview Cove and storage tanks on the shore. I remember it blowing up when we were kids in school.
My father and his brother owned a store at the entrance to Africville, they sold it to Allen O'Neil
who later opened a store on Dutch Village Road.
Ashburn Golf Club had a pro named Kas? Zabowski ?? He had a son Raymond , it was said before he came to Halifax he used to golf in tournaments with a bag over his head. The Unknown Golfer?
Does anyone know the facts of this????
The Surburban Hockey League played it's games in the old Shirley Street Arena, us kids would always get in free and have our hot dogs and fries bought during the games, all we had to do, was smuggle a few quarts of beer in ,under our winter clothes, and place them in the toilet tanks to keep cool, this beer was for dedicated drunken Fairview fans who will go unnamed. The players managed to smuggle in their own beer with their gear and enjoyed it, before, during breaks and after games. They played three complete games of hockey, cleaned the ice between periods and we were home shortly after midnight. No advertising and no TV bullshit in those days. Also, most of those players would have worked a full day Saturday before playing. Many, if they didn't work saturday, drank beer from ten o'clock until five o'clock, then went to the arena with beer in their hockey gear. Some, did not drink or smoke at all !
I remember the Fairview overpass, when it was the Fairvew underpass. It flooded so bad, water would come in car doors trying to get to the city.
We carried golf bags at Ashburn for eighteen holes for fifty cents.
The students at Mt.Saint Vincent Academy had chores before and after school, they had to collect eggs, milk cows, and hoe the garden, the Mount was self -sufficient like most institutions in those days. I remember the Motherhouse burning down in the early fifties, it was so cold that night, the water from firehouses was freezing, before it got to the fire.
We skated on Deals Pond, where the Bayer's Road Shopping Centre is today. We also skated on a pond at the top of Melrose ave. That pond no longer exists.
Bad Catholic boys went to St. Patricks Home for Boys where the Halifax shopping center is today on Mumford road, bad Protestant boys went to Shelburne, later they all went to Shelburne.
I remember the Queen as a princess, newly wed, driving by in a glass top car at the bottom of Evans Avenue.
We sometimes took the train to go shopping at Simpsons where the West -End Mall is today.
Us boys took the train to the movies at Armdale, but we rode the rails, just like railroad bums.
Sometimes we even walked on top of moving boxcars, just like the cowboys in the movies.
In the summer we often hitchhiked to Horseshoe Island on the North West Arm to swim, or we hitch-hiked to Bedford to swim at Moir's Dam.
We swam off the rocks in Fairview Cove right behind White Rose Oil , we were always in the water on May 24th week-end. There was much more sewage in the basin in those days than now, we just pushed it aside and jumped in!
The Wandlyn Motel was once called Middlemore Home, a home for British refugee children?
Bob Cole, owned " The Biggest Little Service Station in the Maritimes", he usually had a parrot or monkey there to entertain kids, it was located across from the quarry, now a car dealership.
We would think nothing of going to the top of Main Avenue (Geizers Hill) where the TV tower is, then through the woods to Suzie's Lake to swim.
We followed the garbage man,doing his rounds with horse and wagon while reciting this little ditty:" Sam, Sam, the garbage man, washed his face in a frying pan, combed his hair, with the leg of a chair ,and died with a toothache in his ear."
We hunted, fished and snared rabbits where Clayton Park is today. I remember Mr. Snyder shooting a deer off his back doorstep where Sobey's is located.
Many Fairview men worked for Canadian National Railways, the roundhouse where locomotives were serviced and repaired, the Rockingham yards with hundreds of boxcars, also Fairview train station. Many single men from out of town slept and ate at Brown's Resthouse in Fairview Cove.
Irving oil had a jetty in Fairview Cove and storage tanks on the shore. I remember it blowing up when we were kids in school.
My father and his brother owned a store at the entrance to Africville, they sold it to Allen O'Neil
who later opened a store on Dutch Village Road.
Ashburn Golf Club had a pro named Kas? Zabowski ?? He had a son Raymond , it was said before he came to Halifax he used to golf in tournaments with a bag over his head. The Unknown Golfer?
Does anyone know the facts of this????
The Surburban Hockey League played it's games in the old Shirley Street Arena, us kids would always get in free and have our hot dogs and fries bought during the games, all we had to do, was smuggle a few quarts of beer in ,under our winter clothes, and place them in the toilet tanks to keep cool, this beer was for dedicated drunken Fairview fans who will go unnamed. The players managed to smuggle in their own beer with their gear and enjoyed it, before, during breaks and after games. They played three complete games of hockey, cleaned the ice between periods and we were home shortly after midnight. No advertising and no TV bullshit in those days. Also, most of those players would have worked a full day Saturday before playing. Many, if they didn't work saturday, drank beer from ten o'clock until five o'clock, then went to the arena with beer in their hockey gear. Some, did not drink or smoke at all !
Sunday, July 1, 2007
From Names and Places in Nova Scotia: FAIRVIEW, Halifax County
A suburb located on the south west side of Bedford Basin about three miles from the business section of Halifax City. When German settlers took up residence in this area in July, 1751, they named it Westermolt, or Westernwold, "western forest." The English speaking people called it Dutch Village from the German word for German people , " Deutsche." The names of these families were Deal, Frederick. Gebhardt, Hiltz,Hirshmann, Meisner, Mirokel (Merkel), Shaffner, Schmidt, Schultz, Westhoefer (Westhaver), Winter, and Wentzel. The name " Three Mile House" was also applied to the area because of the Inn of that name. The hill behind was called Geizer's Hill from a German family in the district. The origin of the name "Fairview" was the Fairview cemetary in Halifax. but it was not officially applied to the village until sometime before 1941, the first time it appeared in the Federal census. Previously, the village was included in the area known as North West Arm.
St. John's Chapel of Ease was built about 1842 , in what is now Halifax City. The new St John's Anglican church was opened on a new site and dedicated on February 26,1960. St. Lawrence's Roman Catholic Church was begun on August 10,1947, being blessed on October 10,1948. St. Pius X Roman Catholic church and school was opened May 14, 1960. The new Fairview United church was opened on January 3, 1960. The Church of Christ building was formally opened on November 11,1962, while the Fairview Bible Chapel was opened and dedicated on March 20,1960. A Centennial Arena was constructed in 1966/67. Fairview school was built in 1945. Hfx West Municipal High School was completed in 1958. The new St. Pius X Roman Catholic parochial school opened in August ,1960. A new junior high school for Fairview -Rockingham was begun in 1965.
The Halifax Golf and Country Club moved to the golf course at Ashburn in 1923. The population of Fairview is largely composed of people working in the metropolitan area of Hfx-Dartmouth, or those engaged in meeting the merchandizing needs of the community. By 1941 there were 1,436 people. *Note: It became 1,437 on Christmas Day 1941 when my mother came home from the hospital with me! Paul David William Crawford.
A suburb located on the south west side of Bedford Basin about three miles from the business section of Halifax City. When German settlers took up residence in this area in July, 1751, they named it Westermolt, or Westernwold, "western forest." The English speaking people called it Dutch Village from the German word for German people , " Deutsche." The names of these families were Deal, Frederick. Gebhardt, Hiltz,Hirshmann, Meisner, Mirokel (Merkel), Shaffner, Schmidt, Schultz, Westhoefer (Westhaver), Winter, and Wentzel. The name " Three Mile House" was also applied to the area because of the Inn of that name. The hill behind was called Geizer's Hill from a German family in the district. The origin of the name "Fairview" was the Fairview cemetary in Halifax. but it was not officially applied to the village until sometime before 1941, the first time it appeared in the Federal census. Previously, the village was included in the area known as North West Arm.
St. John's Chapel of Ease was built about 1842 , in what is now Halifax City. The new St John's Anglican church was opened on a new site and dedicated on February 26,1960. St. Lawrence's Roman Catholic Church was begun on August 10,1947, being blessed on October 10,1948. St. Pius X Roman Catholic church and school was opened May 14, 1960. The new Fairview United church was opened on January 3, 1960. The Church of Christ building was formally opened on November 11,1962, while the Fairview Bible Chapel was opened and dedicated on March 20,1960. A Centennial Arena was constructed in 1966/67. Fairview school was built in 1945. Hfx West Municipal High School was completed in 1958. The new St. Pius X Roman Catholic parochial school opened in August ,1960. A new junior high school for Fairview -Rockingham was begun in 1965.
The Halifax Golf and Country Club moved to the golf course at Ashburn in 1923. The population of Fairview is largely composed of people working in the metropolitan area of Hfx-Dartmouth, or those engaged in meeting the merchandizing needs of the community. By 1941 there were 1,436 people. *Note: It became 1,437 on Christmas Day 1941 when my mother came home from the hospital with me! Paul David William Crawford.
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