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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 25, 2019
Caption: City Hall Entrance • "Old" Dalhousie Cornerstone Replica
Additional Description: The "Old" Dalhousie Cornerstone Replica on the left side of the Halifax City Hall entrance reads:

The tablet below, a facsimile of that placed in the cornerstone of the original Dalhousie College, which occupied this site from 1820 to 1887, was unveiled with appropriate ceremony on August 21, 1924, when Sir James Fergusson, Admiral, on this station, and John George Pyke, of Liverpool, N.S., represented their respective great-grandfathers, the Earl of Dalhousie and John George Pyke.
In the year of our Lord 1820
and in the first year of the reign
of his Sacred Majesty George the IV
King of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain & Ireland
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Submitted: September 17, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p493620
File Size: 5.319 Megabytes

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