Submarine Net during WW II (from York Redoubt to Maughers Beach)
Strawberry Battery- visitors are discouraged from visiting this fort as it isn't currently structurally sound
One of Fort McNab's breech-loading guns
Fort Ives - RML gun barrels
Searchlight emplacement
Detention barracks
Detention barracks
Gun battery ruins
Searchlight emplacement
Searchlight emplacement
Military ruins
Military ruins
Military ruins
Searchlight emplacement
Fort Ives' 9 inch rifled muzzle-loading guns
Fort Ives
Historical picture at entrance of Fort Ives
Fort Ives' 9 inch rifled muzzle-loading guns
Fort Ives renovation
Fort Ives renovation
Fort Ives
Fort Ives gun emplacement
Fort Ives renovation
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Construction at Fort Ives began in 1864. The fortification was updated in the 1890s and again during WW1. The Fort featured two rifled muzzle loaded guns in their original casements.
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Fort Ives gun emplacement
Fort Ives
Fort Ives gun emplacement
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Fort Ives
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab before renovation
Fort McNab before renovation. Construction of Fort McNab National Historic Site began in 1889. It was the first fortification in Halifax to use breech loading guns, making it the most powerful fort to guard Halifax.