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Zwicker or Lawrence house, Main Road. Demolished when the Sunnyside Shopping Mall was built.

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Lewis House
1920
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada

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There are many other hotels in Bedford. Before we arrived there had been more but some had gone. Of course, the best known for summer visitors, was the Lewis House.
We knew many of the people there because they came each year and stayed for the whole summer. The Lewis House is still there on the edge of the track although it is no longer a guest house.

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The Florence Hotel
1900
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Florence Hotel

Here is the famous Florence Hotel, located in Millview. It burned down in 1931.

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The Scott Hotel
1907
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Scott Hotel

Here is the Scott Hotel at the Corner of 1st Avenue where later George Coates built his IGA store. The building now is offices and a fabric shop.

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Main Road
1939
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada

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I don't remember when street lights were first put in. The road was narrow and unpaved. (Elsie Tolson says in her book that lights were installed in 1910. Wires, she says, were strung on poles along part of the main road and about every quarter of a mile a bulb glowed feebly.) I do remember that when we came to Bedford the road was very dark and, on the few occasions when I was out in the evening, I was allowed to carry a lantern.

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Attending school in Halifax.
7 November 2003
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada

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After we finished Grade 8 in the two room school, we saw a picture of that school before, we had to go to Halifax. We went in on the train, of course. We went to Bloomfield School in the north end for Grade 9. It was the year after the explosion and the station had been demolished and a new one was being built, at the South End Terminals, but, rather than change schools, we continued on at Bloomfield. We went in on the train at 8:20, got off at Fairview station and walked into the school, along Kempt Road, then walked back at noon to get the 1:20 train home. We did not have afternoon school in High School. We would get home for dinner after 2:00 o'clock. After that year the students went to Morris Street for Grade 9 and we went to the Halifax Academy at the top of Sackville Street. We never realized how far we had to walk. From the South End Station to the top of Sackville Street is quite a jaunt.

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Women waiting to take the train to Halifax
1916
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada

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The train, of course, was the one means of transportation. Women who wanted to go to Halifax to shop would go in on the train, but the length of their expedition would be limited to the time of the departure of the train.
It used to be quite a sight to see people racing for the train in the morning. Sometimes, if we were late we would go on the track at the crossing and go racing up the track where we could be seen and the conductor would wait for us. Barbara Phinney Fuller lived across the street from the station and she used to tell a story that one day she reached the station at the last minute, said, "Oh, I forgot a book, can I go home and get it?" and the train waited the extra time it took her to scoot across the road and come back with her book. The train people were very accommodating. Once, in my first year at Dalhousie, I had an evening party at the house, classmates from college, and when the crowd was ready to leave, the midnight train, going back to Halifax, stopped at Isleview Crossing, just across from the house, picked up the group, and took them all back. Later, the Suburban trains, coming out from Halifax, stopped at Isleview to let passengers off.

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Steam train
1920
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada