Jane Flemming our DSWAC correspondent in Halifax, talking about the historic Dalhousie University walls, writes....
"Some of these walls are deteriorating, but they are quite old, probably dating back to the blasting of the rail cut around 1913. The cut is 8 km long and at least 20 meters deep in places, so you can imagine how much rock they took out of there. On one day in 1914 they are reported to have moved fifteen thousand tons of rock with just nine tons of dynamite. The yacht squadron was apparently bombarded with debris – people complained. It’s no wonder there are walls all over the city. Its a type of slate that everyone here calls ironstone. “Walls enough for all” could have been the slogan."
