A view of the MacKay Bridge from the Canada 150 Trail at Shannon Park (Meghan Groff/HalifaxToday.ca)
A dutiful dog walker in Dartmouth this week made sure they were far from other pandemic pedestrians out for a little fresh air and exercise.
The walker was seen May 10 strolling alone around the trail and harbour lookout at Shannon Park – a site that doesn’t open for the season until June 1.
Although the Canada Lands Company path is currently blocked by a locked gate, the trail user and two dogs were spotted (from the MacKay Bridge roadway) at the lookout.
“While some of the property boundaries are not fenced due to the topography of the site, Canada Lands maintains access control to a large portion” of the area, Chris Millier, a spokesperson with the federal Crown corporation told HalifaxToday.ca recently.
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The Halifax Port Authority has been infilling part of the Bedford Basin since 2012. The purple area has already been filled in, while the yellow represents area that has yet to be filled.(Halifax Port Authority)
A sliver of rocky land that has been described as an eyesore may be turned into a park.
New land that has been created by infilling part of the Bedford Basin near the Fairview Cove Container Terminal likely will be designated for community use when the project is complete.
Commuters and other travellers on the MacKay Bridge or the Bedford Highway may have noticed dumptrucks depositing material into the water over the past several years, and a growing infilled area stretching from the container terminal toward Africville Park.
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Plans for new MacKay Bridge spark renewed calls for Africville reparations
Irvine Carvery, a former resident of Africville, says any plan to build a new bridge must include reparations for the destruction of the historic Black community in the 1960s.
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Africville was demolished and its residents were relocated when the MacKay Bridge was built in the 1960s. This replica church is now a national historic site.(Carolyn Ray/CBC)
As Halifax Harbour Bridges looks at replacing the MacKay Bridge, a former resident of Africville says any plan going forward must include reparations for the destruction of the historic Black community.