THE PROJECT
Launched on November 12, 2024, our first Memory Map takes us to Halifax in 1878 and examines the city's built heritage assets. How many old buildings remain, and where are they located?
Launched on May 13, 2025, our second Memory Map uses fire insurance plans to inventory buildings on the peninsula of Halifax dating from 1899 or earlier. This project was completed with generous support from the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia.
EXHIBITS
The world around us is filled with things from former times. Many of these things have become so familiar that we do not value or even recognize the stories they tell. The rush of the present may have dulled our perception, but the fact remains that much of our world once belonged to people who came before us. We may not have met them, but we live with their decisions every day. We walk and drive on roads they surveyed. Many of us go to sleep in houses they built.
Old places can have complicated histories. They have been bought and sold, built up and torn down again, fought over, lovingly tended, celebrated, neglected, and lamented. The works of our forebearers are so numerous that we could get lost among them. But we have maps. And maps describe time as well as space.
We are a team of landscape archaeologists and digital cartographers based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Our Memory Maps Project explores familiar places through time.
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