Celebrate Public Works

HRM invites the public to equipment displays at the Halifax Common and an Open House at the Dartmouth Greenhouses as part of National Public Works Week 2013

These are a few of the many photos, maps and documents that HRM Archives holds documenting the huge contribution Public Works have made to our region.

HRM Archives Engineering and Works photo#102-39-1-1256

Before the days of 311 (phone-in to report a pot-hole) City workers would document where road-work was needed - in this case a frost boil on Cogswell St. with Citadel Hill in background - March 29, 1963

                                                  HRM Archives accession 2013-007

This image was one of a few rescued by Harry Duggan from a Public Service Commission scrapbook. Harry's family recently donated material from his days as office manager of the Halifax Water Commission.