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Statistics of Halifax and Dartmouth 1936
As shown in Might's City Directory

           POPULATION
           Halifax City Proper............................................................64,279
           Suburbs - Armdale, Bedford, Fairview and Rockingham.......5,536

           Dartmouth Proper................................................................9,391

           TOTAL POPULATION - Official Estimate........................79,206

           AREA
           Halifax - 4,400 acres or about 7 square miles.
           Dartmouth - 1,533 acres or about 2 1/2 square miles

           ASSESSED VALUATION
           Halifax - $58,263,755.
           Dartmouth - $6,752,200

           EXEMPT PROPERTY
           Halifax - $39, 237,600
           Dartmouth - $1,854,850

           TAX RATE
           Halifax - 35.3 mills
           Dartmouth - 36 mills

           BONDED DEBT
           Halifax - $15,1444,013 less sinking fund of $4,466,621.
           Dartmouth - $1,354,000 less sinking fund of $306,964.

           BUILDING PERMITS
           Halifax - $1,545,824

           PARKS
           Halifax - 14 with 274 acres
           Dartmouth - 1 with 120 acres

           TRUST COMPANIES
           Halifax - 5

           BANKS
           Halifax - 4 with 13 branches
           Dartmouth - 2

           BANK CLEARINGS
           Halifax - $112,710,681.

           FORM OF GOVERNMENT
           Halifax - Aldermanic, A mayor and 3 aldermen for each of 6 wards.
           Dartmouth - a Mayor and 2 Councillors for each of 3 wards.

           POST OFFICE RECEIPTS
           Halifax - $511,483.
           Dartmouth - $16,445.

           TELEPHONES
           Halifax - 13,598
           Dartmouth - 1,596

           CHURCH BUILDINGS
           Halifax - 44 (fourteen denominations)
           Dartmouth - 8 (four denominations)

           NUMBER OF HOMES
           Halifax - 11,712 (sixty-two percent owned)
           Dartmouth - 1,970

           NUMBER OF BUILDINGS CONNECTED WITH WATER
           Dartmouth 1,887

           INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS
            Halifax - 80 (9,800 employees)
            Dartmouth - 9 (750 employees)

            HOTELS
            Halifax - 5 leading hotels with a total of 785 rooms
            (Carleton, Halifax, Lord Nelson, Nova Scotian and Queen)
            Dartmouth - 1 with 42 rooms (Thorndyke)

            THEATRES
            Halifax - 8 with seating capacity of 6,200
            Dartmouth - 2 with seating capacity of 1,150

            HOSPITALS
            Halifax - 7 with 844 beds
            Dartmouth - 1

            COLLEGES
            Halifax - 4

            SCHOOLS
            Halifax - 32 including 4 high schools (13,429 pupils) (308 teachers)
            Dartmouth - 5 including 1 high school - (1,778 pupils) (40 teachers)

            FIRE DEPARTMENT
            Halifax - consists of 95 men, six motor pumpers, two hose cars, two city
            service ladder trucks, one 75 ft. aerial truck, one chief's car, one deputy
            chief's car, four station houses.

            Dartmouth - consists of 50 men, including 20 members of the Union
            Protection Company, a volunteer association, with five pieces of
            equipment.

            POLICE DEPARTMENT
            Halifax - consists of 70 men and 1 police woman, with one station and five
            pieces of motor equipment.

            Dartmouth - consists of a station house and four men.

            MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS
            Halifax - 8,140 passenger, 1,909 commercial - Total 10,049.
            Dartmouth - 801 passenger, 171 commercial - Total 972

            VITAL STATISTICS
            Halifax - 1,607 births, 607 marriages, 1,313 deaths.
            Dartmouth - 151 births, 72 marriages, 61 deaths.

            HALIFAX PUBLIC LIBRARY
            39,500 volumes, 200 commercial text books.

            HALIFAX STATS
            There are 108 miles of streets, 25 miles paved, 67 miles of sewers, 16
            miles of Electric Street Railway, 63 miles concrete sidewald, 8 million
            gallons of water supplied daily.

            DARTMOUTH STATS
            There are 84 miles of streets, 5 miles paved, 800,000 gallons of water
            supplied daily.

 



        If you would like me to do specific lookups from
        the 1936 Might's City Directory please e-mail me

              bryanfkeddy@ns.sympatico.ca

     I am willing to look up 5 specific requests per e-mail.

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