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Halifax is leaping into the age of big things Halifax, the crusty old warden »f the North Atlantic, which has Jlong been big in the history books but relatively short on contempâ€" wary development, today is 3 Waterles Chronicle, Thureday, Aprit 3, 1946 Ewinging mod. Towers of shiny new office blocks and high rise apartments form a growing modern skyline Scotia Square‘s 2,500,000 square feet of space makes it larger than Montreal‘s Place Ville Marâ€" ie, and the 155,000 cubic yards of concrete required, make it the biggest concrete commercial structure in Canada. the spars of visiting ocean liners and the romantic citadel of Queer Victoria‘s father marked the urban horizon. ming fast enough lately to its seams. The amaigamaâ€" tion of five suburbs earlier this year boosted population and gave the old city three times its forâ€" mer area. At the downtown core of old Halifax one of the most spectacuâ€" lar building projects in the nation is taking shape. Scotia Square, a $54,000,000 commercial comâ€" plex of eleven new buildings, covâ€" ers 19 acres of redeveloped land everlooking the harbor. It will contain a convention hotel, a couple of office towers, a trade mart larger in area than a football field, dive highâ€"rise apartment buildings, a multiâ€"levâ€" el parking building, a double levâ€" el shopping mall containing fashâ€" ion shops, boutiques, restaurants, a department store and a movie theatre. Scotia Square will draw an estiâ€" mated 25,000 shoppers a day and is expected to revitalize downâ€" town shopping which has given way to large department stores and shopping malls built in the city‘s west end in the early 1960s. It should also help tie together the two older downtown shopping districts of Barrington and Gotâ€" tingen Streets. In fact, the storied city of Cornwallis, Joe Howe and Ed\ But the urban district of which Halifax is the centre is greater still. It‘s increasingly being calâ€" led Metropolitan Halifax and inâ€" eludes the smaller city of Dartâ€" mouth across the harbor and the as yet unassimilated suburbs. The 225,000 population of Metâ€" ropolitan Halifax today places it in the class of the Canadian citâ€" ies of Windsor or London and larger than either Regina or Vicâ€" ties, the recent expansion of Metropolitan Halifax keeps it well out front as the largest and most important city east of its historic rivals of Boston and Queâ€" The entire complex is schedâ€" uled for completion before the end of next year, with the exâ€" ception of three of the five apartâ€" ment towers which will be built in 1971â€"1972. The trade mart opened last year. As the financial and commerâ€" cial centre of Atlantic Canada, Metropolitan Halifax has been sprouting new office towers at the rate of one or two a year inâ€" cluding the 13â€"storey, $3,500,000 Royal Bank and a 10â€"storey Haliâ€" fax Insurance Building. So far this year the 10â€"storey Hollis Building has opened and one of Scotia Square‘s new office towâ€" ers is scheduled for completion before the year end. _ _ The pace of business aMd indusâ€" try is upbeat. Retail trade has reached about $300,000,000 a year and to accommodate it about 75 percent of the area‘s existing shopping facilities have been newâ€" ly built or rebuilt within the past 10 years. _ _ o â€" ‘Though there has been greater growth among other Caradian ciâ€" Under the lee of Halifax‘s huge waterfront grain elevators, Dover The current population repreâ€" sents a growth rate of about 40 percent over the past 16 years, in modern Nova Scotia land and residential development sites. Founded by the English in 1749 as a fortress and naval base to fight off French depredations against New England, Halifax launched the siege of mighty Louisbourg making possible the fail of Qubec and the end of French military power in North America. And when the Ameriâ€" cans turned republican, it was the power of Halifax that kept this 14tt. colony out of the union and held the present Atlantic provinces for Canada. Today, however, the port has another future. The new techâ€" nology in transportation exempliâ€" fied by containerization, is exâ€" pected to make Halifax more imâ€" portant as a world port, and posâ€" sibly one of the principal North American gateways for world trade. Halifax is already Canada‘s first superport. For the past year its been regularly berthing the fully loaded 112,000â€"ton Imperial Ottawa, Canada‘s largest ship. Its deep water, yearâ€"round operâ€" ation, and strategic position on the shortest sea route to Europe give Halifax new advantages over other Atlantic ports in Canada and the United States for modern shipping. Weekly container service beâ€" tween Halifax and the European port of Antwerp and Southampâ€" ton, England, begins sailings in July of this year using temporâ€" ary loading facilities at Halifax until the port‘s new $10,000,000 container pier is completed in midâ€"1970. The Port of Halifax Commission is confident that more overseas container services will soon be added. To expedite the growth of Haliâ€" fax as an important Atlantic conâ€" tainer port, Halifax and the govâ€" ernment of Nova Scotia are formâ€" ing a crown corporation to lease space on highâ€"speed Canadian Naâ€" tional unit trains that will rush container freight between this port and central Canada. building two $10,000,000 drilling rigs for oil exploration off the Nova Scotia coast. Within sight of the flare pipes of the two oil refineries in the area, a privatelyâ€"owned Dartmouth inâ€" dustrial park contains the plants of 22 industries recently located here. Meanwhile annexation of Halifax‘s suburbs has given the city some of the land it needs for additional industrial developâ€" One of Halifax‘s most importâ€" ant industries is its port, which has been famous ever since the place was a walled town repulâ€" sing Indian raids. _ This overland service integratâ€" ed with the overseas container shipping schedules, is expected to make the Halifax container Scotia Square project in Halifax tops Montreal‘s Place Ville Marie in floor Mills Limited is gÂ¥ving the city route competitive with Montreal The Atlantic ‘‘flour power‘"‘ with its $2,000,000 and beat the St. Lawrence Seaâ€" ;ory of the N mill which began production last way as best and fastest route Council and the year as the first flour mill in into central Canada. . Atlantic Canada. The recentlyâ€" _ Scheduled to begin in July of ®%% Of Nova built dockside plant of Volvo Ltd., this year, the Halifax container Foundation are is turning out 140 cars a week for rail service to serve Montreal tivation of seaw dealers across the country, while â€" and Toronto in its first year, and â€" tion of underwat with new parkâ€" Research in the oceanographic sciences employs a large number of these researchers and techâ€" nicians. Biggest of the seaâ€"oriâ€" ented _ research _ establishments are the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, and the Halifax laboratory of Canaâ€" da‘s Fisheries Research Board. Halifax fisheries scientists deâ€" veloped the technology for makâ€" ing fish proteinâ€"c on centrate which is expected to go into proâ€" duction in Nova Scotia soon. World food authorities have long heralded fish protein as one of the most important potential food sources for underdeveloped, These include petroleum proâ€" ducts, grain, gypsum, motor veâ€" hicles, flour, cement, rubber, lumber, aluminum concentrates, fruit, â€"vegetables, machinery and manufactured goods, ores, newsâ€" print, fertilizers, tea, coffee and spices. It is the eastern Canadian headâ€" quarters of numerous financial houses, bu s ine s s corporations and shipping firms, and much of its industry is dependent on the port. z Defence business in the metroâ€" politan area is also to a large extent port business. Halifax is still Canada‘s biggest and most important naval base. During two world wars it sent thousands of merchant ships on the ghostly convoys overseas; and today 10,â€" 000 sailors a year tour the port city on leave from visiting NAâ€" TO warships. Metropolitan Halifax today is one of Canada‘s largest and most diversified scientific rese arch centres. In terms of the numâ€" bers of scientists and the range of their work, the scientific comâ€" munity in this area places third in the nation. Only Ottawa and Toronto are larger. Seaâ€"going scientists of the Bedâ€" ford Institute helped locate the potential undersea oil deposits now being explored in the conâ€" tinental shelf off Nova Scotia. piers in the yearâ€"round importâ€" With the growth of container shipping, â€"however, Haligonians look for a much greater buildâ€" up of portâ€"oriented business and industry. Container s hipping should provide Nova Scotia based industry with lowâ€"cost access to European markets. The service is planned eventâ€" ually to extend across the continâ€" ent to Vancouver, making Haliâ€" fax one of the principal terminâ€" als in a Canadian land bridge linking the world‘s largest marâ€" kets, in Europe, Nerth America and the Far East, with a highâ€" speed land and seat freightway. Of course, Halifax is already a busy port. A gigantic volume of Scheduled to begin in July of this year, the Halifax container rail service to serve Montreal and Toronto in its first year, and extend to Detroit and Chicago the following year. route competitive with Montreal and beat the St. Lawrence Seaâ€" way as best and fastest route into central Canada. ties cross its numerous King‘s College is Canada‘s oldâ€" est university, and Mount Saint Vincent College is the country‘s only university exclusively for women. Both offer degree courses Second largest of the city‘s universities is Saint Mary‘s. Like Dalhousie, it offers a full range of degree courses in arts and sciâ€" ences, plus post graduate work in numerous areas of study. Under construction at present are a $2,000,000 chemistry and biâ€" ology laboratory, and a $1,500,â€" 000 student centre. SMU‘s new "en suite"" campus residences are the most modern in the country. They cost $4,000,000. The professiond! schools of enâ€" gineering and architecture are operated by Nova Scotia Techâ€" nical College, while industrial deâ€" sign is offered by Nova Scotia College of Art; law by Dalhousie law school; and theology by Pine Hill, Holy Heart Seminary and Uniyersity of King‘s College. As the largest medical centre in Atlantic Canada, Halifax is the location of extensive medical research, and the university proâ€" fessional schools of medicine, denistry, pharmacy, nursing, and social work. In the new $12,000,â€" 000, 15â€"storey medical building on Dalhousie campus, which was Nova Scotia‘s centennial project, advanced research is underway in biophysics. Dalhousie also has $26,000,000 worth of construction planned for new dental facilities and a physical sciences centre. growth of Halifax as a research community of international imâ€" portance are the demands of reâ€" search oriented industry, and the number of relatively small uniâ€" versities in Halifax and throughâ€" out the region. With ~â€"good research â€" facilities and a diversity of scientific disâ€" ciplines, these universities make possible an unusual scientific versatility. Dalhousie University, w here the oceanographic sciences are taught, is the largest of Halifax‘s degreeâ€"granting universities and colleges. A new $16,000,000 life sciences centre under construcâ€" tion on Dalhousie‘s m i d â€" t o w n campus, will house Canada‘s first aquatron for the study of sea life under controlled conditions. Beâ€" sides marine biology laboratorâ€" ies, the centre will also house psychology and biology laboraâ€" tories. magnesia and bromine from the ocean, while other scientists of tivation of seaweeds in anticipaâ€" tion of underwater seaweed farmâ€" ing of industrially valuable seaâ€" weed extracts. 5 The chemistry division of NSRF is developing technologies in Halifax, and other research orâ€" ies in numerous other fields. The Atlantic regional laboraâ€" tory of the National Research Council and the seaweeds diviâ€" Foundation are studying the cul In the flowered parks starchy nannies still sun their charges; gaggles of school children play®@ in the fountains; and senior citiâ€" zens discuss the day‘s news among the swans. Today the principal contrast lies between the old city and its cosmopolitan new â€" development. But there is little conflict. The glass and concrete towers do not submerge the city‘s correct and gracious Georgian heritage, they reâ€"emphasize it. And city planâ€" ners and developers are charâ€" ged with controlling the size of new buildings to prevent the loss of Halifax‘s delightfully human scale. Accompanying the unprecedentâ€" ed physical growth is a dramatic change in the mood and appearâ€" ance of the city. The atmosphere is increasingly cosmopolitan, and being Canada‘s major Atlantic seaport and the biggest univerâ€" sity centre east of Montreal, helps. Thousands of students, scientâ€" ists, teachers and seafarers from across the world are adding new cultural flavor to the basic Canadâ€" ian character of the place. While the continuing immigration of executives and professionals from the United States, central Canada and Europe, to help man growing business and industry, is injectâ€" ing new dynamism into historic Halifax. fax cultural opportunities are multiplying. New museums, galâ€" leries, libraries, university expanâ€" sions and the success of the city‘s legitimate theatre are rapidly imâ€" proving the cultural scene. The Atlantic Symphony is playâ€" ing full seasons; a new Dartâ€" mouth historical museum opened last year; modern $1,400,000 quarâ€" ters under construction this year will house an expanded Nova Scotia Museum and Maritime Museum; the Nova Scotia College of Art‘s modern Leonowens Galâ€" lery, named for Anna of the King of Siam, opened to the public last year, while a $4,000,000 arts cenâ€" tre under construction at Dalâ€" housie will provide another new art gallery, a theatre and music hall; new libraries were recently opened in the city‘s north end and at Saint Mary‘s University; and Dalhousie is also building a new $7,000,000 library to open next year. Standing between land and sea, Halifax is a city of contrasts and this is a big part of its charm. Though the ocean brings Haliâ€" fax much of its scientific and commercial importance, it‘s also the vast "sirâ€"conditioned" playâ€" ground which helps bring the city hundreds of thousands of tourist and convention visitors annually. An ocean racing centre, Halifax area has five yacht clubs and a host of other boating and waterâ€" sports clubs on the fiordâ€"like North West Arm, broad Bedford outlying coves will build sportsâ€" men anything from a motorized dory to an ocean ketch. mouth lakes. Boat builders in the Landward, away from ocean, lie gentle hilis bewhiskered with scented spruce, and holding in their folds broad parklands, lakes and trout streams, all within a halfâ€"hour of downtown. And withâ€" British fort, moated and bastionâ€" ed on Citadel Hill is an exciting pilgrimage. it draws 650,000 visiâ€" tors a year. Throughout Metropolitan Haliâ€" The Canada Games being held in Halifax and Dartmouth beginâ€" ning August 16 will bring some 3,000 Canadian athietes to use the area‘s plentiful sports facilities. Besides the recreational reâ€" sources of the metropolitan area, its romance and history are a big® attraction. In the old streets of the city it‘s easy to imagine the chink of privateers‘ gold and the crack of dueling pistolsâ€"faâ€" miliar sounds of over a century in this area are three 18â€"hole golf $w old