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“I think it’s important for us to live our espoused values,” said Coun. Waye Mason at a Halifax regional council meeting this week.
“This is a site that is near and dear to many people’s hearts and it’s unambiguously an important heritage asset,” Mason added., by 1900, young men in the St. Mary’s Amateur Athletic and Aquatics Club , a rowing and aquatics club founded in 1874 by the St. Mary’s Young Men’s Temperance Abstinence and Benevolence Society for the enjoyment of Catholic youth in Halifax, needed a stable location on the Northwest Arm.They built a boathouse on the south side of Jubilee Road in 1919.
The club folded in 1970 due to dwindling membership and the building was used as a drop-in centre and a youth hostel until 1974 when the City of Halifax signed a 30-year lease of the boat club with the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation. The St. Mary's Boat Club on Wednesday. The 1919 building was granted municipal heritage status this week. - Ryan Taplin
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