[159] Chaddock, Robert E., Unpublished Material.
[160] The reader will of course remember the general inflation of currency.
[161] Hoffman, Frederick L., Insurance, Science and Economics (N. Y., 1911), ch. ix, p. 337.
[162] In the Texas flood of 1900 there were lost 5,000 lives, but they cannot be said to have been all associated with a single community.
[163] Figures kindly supplied by Mr. John H. Barnstead, Registrar, Halifax.
[164] The Directory of 1920 estimates the present population to be 85,000.
[165] Halifax Morning Chronicle, April 29, 1920.
[166] The earliest city-planning was mediaeval. Halifax was laid out by military engineers with narrow streets—the “ideal was a fortified enclosure designed to accommodate the maximum number of inhabitants with the minimum of space.” In 1813 a town-planning scheme was set on foot for the purpose of straightening streets, the removal of projections and banks of earth and stones which at that time existed in the center of streets. Considerable betterment resulted but unfortunately many fine trees were cut down.
[167] MacMechan, Archibald, “Changing Halifax,” Canadian Magazine, vol. xli, no. 4, pp. 328, 329.
[168] Crowell, H. C., The Busy East, vol. x, no. 7, p. 12.