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Halifax : the world's third most important port.

Commercial Photo Service, c1919.

387.1209716 H173

Port districts -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax.

Harbors -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax.

Halifax Harbour (N.S.)

Halifax (N.S.) -- History -- Pictorial works.

Alternate title:

Peace souvenir. Halifax : the world's third most important port

1 v. [unpaged] : ill. ; 17 cm. x 25 cm.

35 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

"Empire's third most important port. That is the distinction which the British Empire's oldest and greatest newspaper, the London Times, gave to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and with special reference to war times. Long named 'The Gateway to Canda' Halifax became to the very existence of the Empire and also to the preserving of world democracy the most important port of the Overseas Dominions. The pictures and views in this booklet convey to the mind and imagination some fair idea of the value Halifax was in the winning of the war. Outside of the first contingent which sailed for England from Canada, Halifax became the supreme Atlantic port for the sailing of transports with troops from Canada, and, after the United States entered the war, the chief port for conveying American troops overseas. In addition, it became the great port for coal and other supplies from the Atlantic countries, and all the world knows the mighty factor Nova Scotia coal, to say nothing of Canadian food supplies and other supplies, proved in helping Great Britain and the Allied Nations to stick it out, till victory came in sight and at last was made real. A single glance at the pictures of the transports in this little brochure affords entertainment for the eye, astounds the imagination, and indicates the importance of Halifax as a great Atlantic port. Since the war ended Halifax Ocean Terminals have been opened to Atlantic transportation. These terminals along with H. M. Naval Dockyards and The Halifax Shipyards certainly put Halifax in the very forefront of the chief commercial ports of the world and make it, in possibility, by development, the ocean transportation 'hub' of the American continents, or at least on a level with the port of New York. The booklet in hand is entertaining and instructive even pictorially viewed. But it is more than this. It conveys vividly to the imagination ideas of the commercial supremacy of Canada, that is to be, in which Halifax itself will become with greater significance the Gateway to Canada, and possibly, the most important port in the British Empire." --Title page verso.

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