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Halifax and Its Business HALIFAX AND ITS BUSINESS : HISTORICAL SKETCH, AND, Description of the City and its Institutions. A].S0 DESCRIPTION OF DIFT!'ENENT LINES OF BUSINESS, WITH ACCOUNT OF THE LEI.DING HOUSES IN EACH LINE.. Pr:CLISI-IED BY G. A. vVHI"i~L. HALIFAX: NOY A SCOTIA PRINTING COMP ANY, 1876. CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE HISTORICAL SKETCH................ 9 THE DRUG BUSINESS AND DRUG· PRESENT CITY......................... 26 GISTS.................................... 70 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS ........ :...... 29 Avery, Brown & Co.............. 72 POPULATION AND TAXATION..... 32 Brown Brothers & Co,.......... 73 NAVAL AND MILITARY............. 33 M. F. Eagar....................... 74, TRA YEL AND TRANSPORTATION, 35 Henry A. Taylor ................. 75 The Cunard Line.................. 37 John K. Bent...................... 75 Allan Line........................... 38 MANUFACTURES OF HALIFAX.... 77 Anchor Line........................ 38 Moir & Co's Steam Bakery Boston and Colonial Line...... 39 and Flour Mill.................. 79 New England and Nova Sco- Nova Scotia Boot and Shoe tia 'steamship Company . ... 39 Factory-G. S. Yates & Co. 81 Newfoundland ·winter Ser- Robert Taylor's Shoe Factory 82 vice................................. 40 George A. Kent & Co............ 83 Quebec & Gulf Ports Steam- Macdonald & Co. - Brass ship Company.................. 40 ,vorks...... ....................... 84 Anglo-French Steamship Line 41 Enfield Brickyard and Pot- Cromwell Line..................... 42 tery................................. 84 Fishwick's Express............... 43 Army and Navy Brewery...... 86 Intercolonial Railway .. 44 Nova Scotia Brewery............ 87 Windsor and Annapolis Rail- John M. De'\Volf-Cariiage way ................................ 45 Factory............................ 89 European and North Ameri- Rob't H. Cogsweu-,vatch<'s, can Railway ...................... 46 Chronometers, &c... .• . .. 90 Stage Coaches..................... 46 J. E. ,vilson - Stoves and BANKING AND BANKS .............. 47 Ships' Castings................. 91 Savings' Bank ..................... 52 Watson & Myers-Bri.ss Nova Scotia Permanent Build- Founders, Gas Fitters, &c.. 92 ing Society & Savings' Fund 53 l\I. S. Brown & Co. - Jewell- Halifax Stock Exchange....... 53 ers and Silversmiths .......... 93 Almo& & l\Iackintosh. .. ... 54 J. Cornelius-Jewellery....... 94 W. L. Lowell & Co. .. .• . 55 Lobster Business - F. H. Baker .............................. 95 INSURANCE IN HALIFAX.......... 57 Brockly & Co.-Piano Forte, Canada Life Assurance Co..... 62 &c .................................. 96 Stadacona Fire and Life In · Williams & Leve1·man-Piano surance Co....................... 63 Forte Manufactory..... .... ... 97 COldldISSION BUBINEBS.... ..• ... ... 65 Jas. Dempster-Planing Mill S. Cunard & Co.................... 66 and Sash Factory.... .• . 98 Lawson, Harrington & Co. , ... 68 Dartmouth Rope Works........ 99 6 CONTENTS: PAGE PAG·E' Starr :\Ianufacturing Co........ 101 J. S. Maclean & Co .............. 1:38 Steel Company of Canada James Scott -"Army & Xavy (Limited) ......................... 102 Depot "...... ... .. 139' l\Iayflower Tobacco ·works..... 103 Jolin Tobin & Oo.................. 140 Nova Scotia Tobacco ,vorks ... 104 HARDWARE, &c•.........•.......•.... Rob't Taylor's. 'l'runk Factory 105 E. Albro & Co ...................... 141 MINERALS AND 1\I!NES ......••.•... 106 Black Brothers & Co............. 143 Coal... ..............................., 106 H. H. Fuller & Co ................ 14-J: Gold................................... :t09 Pickford & Bl'ack .................. 145' Iron, &c....................•..•...... 109 Wm. Stairs, Son & Morrow ... 146 Albion l\Iines ....................... :no HALIFAX HO'.l'EL •.•.••.•.............. 148, Old Sydney and Lingan l\Ii:nes. 111 Spring Hill... ......................... 112 IIIISCELLANEOU S ............•........• Acadia Coal Co. ... .. 112 S. M. Bror,kfield- ·Bnilder and Con itractor... .. .. 150. PVllLISHING AND BOOKSELLING. 115 Geo. Davidson & Co.-Crock- A. & W. l\IcKinlay ............... 115 ery ................................. 15! PRESS OF HALIFAX ............... 1!6 Freeman Etliot - Furnis4ing Morning Chronicle ............... 116 Goods ............................. 152 Reporter ............................. 117 Arthur Fordham - Leather Citizen......................... 118 and Shoe Findings ........... 153' Acooian Recoriter................. 119 Benjamin Godkin-Merchant Morning Herald ............... _.: .. 119 Tailor... 145- Christian Messenger.............. 120 E. Morrison & Co, . .. 15t Presbyterian ,t·itness •.......... 120 R. B. l\Iackintosh-Sugar and ,v esleyan. .. 120 Commission . 155. 8hurch Chronicle ......•.•......... 120 G. & T. Phillips-Bookbind- Alliance Journal.......... 1120 ers, &c ............................... 156 Mayflower .......................... 120 Ja.mes Reardon--Paper Hang- ?,ova Scotia Printing Co....... 121 ings, &c ......•..................... 157 Geore;e Rent, jr. - Kitchen DRY Goons BUSINESS ............... 122 Furniture ......................... 158; Anderson, Billing & Co ......... 125· 8. A. W'hite & Co.-Flour, &c. 159, Burns & Murray .................. 126 "\V. Crowe-Sewing Machines, Doull & Mitler. ... .. ... 127 &c, ................................. 160 Duffus & Co.. •.. .• . • . .. 129 T. & E. Kenny ..................... 138 "\YEST INDIA TRADE ..•...••.•...•.. 161 Peter (Jrant l,;, Co •................ 131 Robert Boak & Son ............... 162 S. Howard & Son................ 132 Bremner & Hart ................... 163 W. & C. Silver .........•........... 1S3 John Taylor & Co................. 164 Augustus W. West ............... 155 GROCERIES ............•......•..•..•.•• 135 C. & "\V. Anderson ................ 136 ComIERCIAL AGENCIES .....•...... 166 Esson & Co........................... 137 FUTUl.lE 01:' HALIF,\:S,. ........ .. .. 1,6f lNTRODUCTORY. Tl!E present appears to be a critical era in the history of this beautiful 'city. It is in the power of the business men of Halifax, not merely to retain their present relative advantages and to repair the losses of the past, but to march forward in a career of unexampled prosperity, and assert for the capital of Nova Scotia the position to which it is justly entitled. This fair-havened city, facing the free ocean, and with the wide continent behind-has special facilities for collecting and distributing the produc:s of sea and land-of the stormy north and the sunny south-of Europe ancl America. Halifax is nearerE11rope than New York, Boston, or Portland. The frost-king never bats the harbor. It is within easy reach by ~ea and land of some of the richest coal fields in the world; and it has almost a prescriptive right to t!te West India trade. With all these and many other advantages, it is impossible that Halifax 1;hould lag behind in the ra'Ce of national progress. It is the object of the following pages to give a brief but 'Comprehensive 'survey· of the past, a faithful presentation and pictllre of the present, ancl an honest f~recast of the future, of Halifax. The facts laid before the reacler have been gathered with conscientious deligence and care. No pains have been spared to sec11re accuracy and impartiality. The leading lines of business pursued in the city are briefly discussed, and the leading houses are described under each head. In no case, except with respect to 'the press, have we a'ttempted to include all who are engaged in any one branch of business. Our plan compelled us to be eclectic, and to overlook e large numl,er o'f very excellent firms in the lines mentioned. The author's 1::ordial thanks are due to a cumber of gentlemen who 'a_ssisted him with information, with their counsel, imd with their p·ens. Aid has been received from so many quarters that to particularize would be invidious. The author dolls not imagine that his work will be prono:mcedfau/tless: 'all he claims is that he has done his best; and he is persuadecl that notwith­ standing its defects, he has by this publication; confe1Ted 11. lasting benefit ·on Halifax and it5 business interests. HALIFAX: HISTORICAL SKETCH. STEP back to the second day of July, 1749, clamber over rocks, an<l fallen trees, and scrubby underbrush, to the top of what is now Cit­ adel Hill-some 250 feet above the sea level-and you find around you wherever your eye wamlers, nothing but the vast wilderness, the green forest relieved here and there by the gleaming waters of the harbor, or by the sheen of rnme distant silvery lake. The lonely wild had then heard no woodman's song, and the ringing axe had hardly wakened an echo. The harbor, safe and deep as it was, had only attracted occasional notice. But, looking out from your hill summit that, day, you ,ec a solitary "stately ship" rising slowly above the horizon, emergmg from the fog bank, and making her way shoreward, the cool breeze tilling her sails. On her mast is the "meteor flag of England.'' It is the sloop-of•war Sphinx, the pioneer of myriads of ships large and small that have since that July <lay entered and cleared the 1:'ort of Halifax. The coming of the Sphinx that day meant much for Nova Scotia, and for all America, as well as for the city which was about to be founded. The struggle between Great Britain and France for ascen­ clency in North America had not then been finally decided. The New. England Colonies lived in almost constant anxiety and dread of French or Indian invasion. France still held large possessions; she liad many warm sympathizers ~long the shores of Minas Basin. Much of New Brunswick
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