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Reconstruction of the
Devastated Area began the rebirth of Richmond, but the sense of community was slow to re-emerge. Throughout the interwar years Richmond remained underdeveloped and depopulated. By no means all of its former inhabitants who survived the disaster returned there to live. The HRC’s
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Though no longer industrial, and robbed of its name, Richmond eventually became the cohesive community it had been before the disaster. The name was lost because new
Richmond was not continuous with old Richmond. The latter was a well-established working-class community which boasted four churches
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of 6 December 1917, the worst disaster in
Canadian history, in which as many as 2000 people died and thousands more were injured. From the 1770s Richmond was home to Fort Needham, and in 1819 Richmond Grove (lower Duffus Street) was the site of the famous fatal duel between Richard John Uniacke Jr
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Richmond was devastated when the
Halifax Explosion levelled much of its buildings and infrastructure. The Halifax Relief Commission, established by federal order-in-council on 22 January 1918, was afterwards incorporated provincially and given uniquely broad powers by act of the Nova Scotia
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and three schools. The former was an urban renewal project which a professional town planner was commissioned to undertake. New
Richmond was the creation not of its people but of the Halifax Relief Commission.
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Originally farm and forestland, the quartier of
Richmond grew up in the 1820s. Situated on the western shore of the Narrows of Halifax Harbour, it began to industrialize in the 1850s after the
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Thomas Adams, the renowned
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post-war divestiture of the “Hydrostone” housing estate and
Richmond’s gradual reintegration into the city of Halifax promoted its revival.
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