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A Stroll Around Downtown Halifax – Nova Scotia
This week I’m dipping into my archives from our time last fall in Halifax, the capital city of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Established when the British moved the colonial capital from Annapolis Royal in 1749 Halifax has a rich maritime history and is a major seaport on Canada’s Atlantic coast.
This collection is just a mish-mash of odd and interesting doors captured during an afternoon doorscursion through the downtown area. The little blue oval plaques seen in some of these shots designate historically significant heritage buildings:
Let me know which one(s) you liked best.
Update 8:00 am April 7 – For those who were wondering, the Foggy Goggle is a bar/restaurant.
As always, I thank you for looking 🙂
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Great doors! I love the tiny door and the door that gives the illusion of being tall and narrow and then you realize it is the colors that surrounds the door providing that illusion! Fabulous!
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Great collection of doors a Haligonian architecture! Nice!
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Thanks Janet – I love it there. I don’t know when it will be exactly, but I’m already looking forward to going back there again 🙂
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The tiny door made me think of the door to my Nana’s under-steps garden shed.
The FoggyGoogle – I want to go there for a beverage and a snack!
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Me too on the Foggy Goggle – Now I`m regretting we didn’t stop for a bite while we were there. Oh well, A good excuse to go back I guess 🙂
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My picks are the yellow door, City Hall and tiny door.
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Thanks – I have a few more tiny doors lined up for future posts too 🙂
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All great photos of doors but I liked the 1st one slightly better than the others.
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Thanks – A popular choice and with good reason 🙂
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Love the warm colour and textures of the first door. It looks very inviting Norm.
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Thanks. I agree that first one does look very warm and welcoming.
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The pillars, circles with tan and brown colors of the last door caught my eyes. There’s a lot of creative thought in those designs, Norm. I see stone and marble, and a door in need of new stain. 🙂
All of the doors were either gorgeous or intriguing in their oddness. Fun post with great comments! Have a wonderful weekend, Norm and wife. Happy Doors hunting!
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Thanks Robin – you too!
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Love the Foggy Goggle name for a bar. Very apt indeed. 🙂
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I agree. Next time I may just stop in and see how many drinks it takes to make my goggles foggy 😀
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The top two are my favourites. I’m partial to red (reddish) doors.
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Thanks 🙂
That top one is one of my faves too.
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Am torn, because each door fits with the building. Then there are doors, I personally like, but there are also doors that give an unusual capture and atmosphere. The last one is the Keith Hall door.
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Thanks. I know what you mean, I had trouble choosing these ones out of the bigger batch of pics I took that day 🙂
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I love City Hall and Foggy Goggle purely for the name. I’ve also included a City Hall in my post this week, Norm. Great minds think alike and foo………… well, you know the rest. 😉
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Yes Jean that name is certainly a memorable one 🙂
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I forgot to mention that my two favorite are the first one and the odd lavender orange one!
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Thanks Josée – that first one sure is popular, and with good reason 🙂
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It’s really a good crop this week Norm, lots of very nice doors!
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I know eh? I’m freaking out!!! We’ve been averaging 40 entries a week for the past month or so – really cool.
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Pretty striking doors you have here today Norm. The Finnish Consulate is a beautiful building.
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FoggyGoggle. Love that name, Norm. However, my vote goes for the Orange door. I love the colours. They blend well together. Looks like quite an old door.
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Thanks Hugh. Yes that first one looked to be very well maintained and original to the house, about 160 years old I think.
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Good bit of history there then, Norm. Wonder who was the first person to ever go through that door after the person who fitted it?
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What a great grouping from a place I really want to visit! Alas, I am a party of one in my household! Thanks for the tour!
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Well I hope you manage to get there one day. It is a lovely place to visit 🙂
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Haha. The crawlspace door is hilarious.
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Thanks, I was sure that one would be good for a few chuckles 😉
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I loved the black one with black stairs the most but then I saw the one before last. Can’t beat the candy colours. 🙂
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Yes, it’s too bad that candy-coloured one had closed down. I would have loved to see the inside decor 🙂
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I am always amazed at the great collection of doors you show us each week!
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Thanks Michelle. I should probably save some for future posts but sometimes I can’t help myself 😀
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I completely understand!
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All of these are great doors, many of them combined with great entrances. My favourites are the 2 that don’t appear to be functional doors at all – #1348, that little half cellar door is really cute and unusual, as is #1335. I like the presentation of the building address on the doors … but no knobs. It almost seems to say ‘yes, you are at the right place, but no, you can’t come in”. The little gate around it reinforces that impression 😉
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Thanks Joanne – I had so many nice ones that it was tough to choose. I may just get another post or two from the ones I have left.
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Sooner or later we find a reason to post the photos we really like 🙂
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Foggy Goggle!
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Great selections Norm! I loved the first Red door and lovely patio around it, and the reflections on two of the doors windows; one with the building across the street with windows and a door, and the other with the bell tower or tower reflected in the window above the purple/ yellow door. The purple stands out in my mind more than the yellow.
The little cellar door caught my eye too. We don’t have basements, and/or cellars here as a rule. It’s rare to find a house with either here in Santa Clara County.
Foggygoggle …singular? That is funny. Hope the food is good. 🙂
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Thanks. We didn’t stop to try the food at the Foggy Goggle but I have a feeling it may take a back seat to the offerings from the bar 😉
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LOL!
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Halifax is one of my favourite Canadian cities. I’ve visited it twice. There’s a lot of interesting historic buildings, as well as the maritime history, and, of course, the connection with American history and the underground railway.
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It’s one of my favourite places to visit too. There’s so much history to discover.
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I like the pastel coloured door 🙂 But cannot image it is my front door haha!
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Same here 🙂
I think it was an ice-cream shop that had closed down. I suspect the next shopkeeper may go with different colours.
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The last set, the old battered wood, has my vote. but the first one is very pretty! What a nice selection to choose from 🙂
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Thanks Joey. I guess you could say it was a bumper crop of doors that day; I had so many pics to choose from, it was tough narrowing it down to these ones.
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I loved the 2nd photograph – the reflection of the property across the street in the glass was simply stunning. Your post created great memories for me as our son went to St. Mary’s University and I spent many fall days getting him settled in and taking photographs of Halifax.
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Glad these brought back good memories for you – it is a beautiful city 🙂
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I have to go with the first one, too, although “Foggy Goggle” has me agog, wondering what is is. A bar or restaurant is my guess, but who knows. Another great set, Norm. Montreal has some mighty fine doors.
janet
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You guessed right on the Foggy Goggle Janet. And yes that first one is a good choice 🙂
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Do I win a free beer???
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Great selection! I think I go with the first one!
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Thanks. The first one is a popular choice – one of my faves too 🙂
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Great doors. The city hall is very impressive. And I love the tiny door.
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Thanks Joan 🙂
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You invited us to a smorgasbord of doors today, and they are all wonderful. I have to admit I got hooked by the first photo. It is perfect – lighting, planting, paint colors, hardware. I love it. 🙂
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Thanks Judy, that’s one of my faves too 🙂
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I love that beautifully preserved wooden door at the top. I also like the arched transoms. The little door under the porch is so cool. I think my favorite is the black door to Keith Hall. The curves, the craftsmanship and, well, next to red and maybe blue, black is my favorite color door. Then again, the entrance at the bottom is stunning too. Great selection Norm!
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Thanks Dan – I have so many from that day I had trouble deciding which ones to include. Some of the ones that didn’t make the cut may still appear in a future post.
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I did that with the doors from Seattle, Norm. Sometimes there are just too many for one post, but it’s hard to decide.
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great variety! some made me smile (FoggyGoggle), some made me wonder what’s behind (1348 – beige one), some are as majestic as the building itself (1475 Keith Hall). though pick – maybe the first one which I would love to have as my entrance door if I had a house.
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Thanks Klara. Yes that first one is really striking. The house was gorgeous too. I would have loved to see the inside.
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Great selection but the Foggy Goggle made me chuckle. Now what on earth was in that place? My door this week is in need of some TLC… https://memoriesaremadeofthisblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/thursday-doors-braidwood-2/
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It’s a great name for a bar isn’t it? Thanks for joining in again this week 🙂
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I never guessed it was a bar, but yes that is very appropriate.
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#1667 Foggy Goggle! What in the world do they sell there? I love the color combination of the taupe and green colors of the building in picture #1 with the orangish shellacked door!
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Thanks – The Foggy Goggle is actualy a bar/restaurant – gotta love that name 😉
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My favorites are the funny little door of 1348 and the stylish one of 1266. But actually they are all great!
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Thank you 🙂
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What wonderful doors! I’h hard-pressed to find one per week that I feel may warrant inclusion.Keith Hall and the Finnish consulate, mainly because I never see old, solid and what I call real doors here…
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Thanks Vicky. I also have a thing for solid wood doors, but old bronze or steel ones can be amazing too.
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Lovely set of old doors. Looks like Halifax is a nice place to visit. I saw Halifax from the deck of a ship long ago but didn’t get the see the town.
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Thanks. Yes, it is a lovely place to visit 🙂
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What wonderful variety this week. I was going to say that the top two were my favorites but then you threw in the one with pastels and FoggyGoggle! Now I can’t pick!
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Thanks Corina – the Foggy Goggle is one of my faves too 🙂
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