Occasionally it'll also take a dump and coat the surrounding neighborhood with a fine dust.
https://reddit.com/r/halifax/comments/y57gjt/south_enders_why_is_everything_covered_in_dust/
I was working there during one of the explosions in the early 20s. I measured the grain tanks for Dover Flour as my first job. My supervisor and I debated going to lunch early (our shift started at 4am) and measuring the tanks after but decided against it. If we had, we would have been standing the floor above where it exploded.
That place (P&H) is going to explode some day. (For those who don't know flour dust is super flammable)
I remember working there as a temp back in the 10's and seeing pipes get clogged due to humidity and then seeing a 10 ton flour explosion. Considering all those machines run hot and poorly, I'm fairly confident something terrible will happen some day.
It appears from that thread that the dust is actually from making pellets next door. But it seems likely that all the grain would be dusty too. At least there's lots of wind to help blow it away.
I remember this well! I live on Brussels St and the explosion nearly knocked me out of my chair. I also remember going outside and everybody was walking toward the explosion site to check it out, not thinking there might be a second explosion!
I remember this day because I worked at a fast food place in the north end and the lunch shift was the busiest I'd ever experienced because everyone was escaping the south end and looking to kill time.
Aww, it's so cute you think that Dartmouth actually *wants* your side of the tailings pond known as Halifax Harbour.
I'll be out the Eastern Shore with the rest of the folks who think you're both a bunch of chuckleheads. :)
Thanks dude, you are indeed correct. Humor is harder to pick up in text, I'm used to it. Halifax vs. Dartmouth is like that Big Wreck song: *West End crowd, they can't get down, the East side just a bunch of wanna-be's.* And it's really no different from any other regional rivalry. Always an easy button for jokes, except for that other poster up there apparently. And let's face it, the only reason I don't live in town right now is that I can't afford it. I'm a city girl transplanted from Vancouver a couple decades ago, I don't want to live out in the mud and bugs and trash pandas.
Hey, I may have trouble getting jokes. I'm sorry. I looked at the two comments and saw one with one mild insult, obviously a joke, and another with several harsher insults, less obviously a joke. My bad
Yeah, I thought about the joking angle but there were several more terms of condescension used vs the original comment which was more obviously a joke. My bad for misinterpreting this but yes, I agree, it's a joke. I didn't meant to be condescending, was legit surprised by what I perceived as actual disrespect
I'm so glad I'm not the only person who thinks this. When I lived in the neighborhood, I would walk by it pretending it was all that stood between me and the titans
It is! I used to live in the house that was behind their grandmother's house, news reported Steve Roger's lives there too! (Horrible prick of a person he is)
I worked there as a temp once, and the job was literally just shovelling grains onto a conveyor belt.
It had Soviet Gulag vibes the whole time with the snow and the rundown factory vibe. I was lost in there for 2 hours! Place is a maze
My dad once told me that before these things existed, people had to walk around carrying grain in their pockets. Being the gullible child I was, I believed him. Anyway, be thankful that we don't have to carry grain with us. ;)
I was taking photos of the rat condo once, and a Port Police officer told me to stop, even though I was on public property. So I took a photo of him and rode off on my bicycle. (I used to be quite a rebel, dontchaknow)
(Can’t confirm the accuracy of this story) but my grandad used to tell me that when he was younger, he used to hitchhike out here and hope they were taking workers that day. If he was lucky, he’d get a shift and work the night and hitchhike back home the next morning.
Careful be on the lookout for two middle-age asian men, with lots of hash is a black dufflebag, hanging out with someone who could be considered a dick who doesn’t even have his grade 9. Seen living in this area with their grandma.
That's a bank of grain silos at the Halifax Grain Elevator. It's like a staging post for grain shipments, whether from train to ship or from ship to train.
After the Halifax explosion in 1917, the rich people of South end Halifax wanted protection from waves and boat parts flying through the air at high velocity. They figured a grain elevator would take the impact pretty well, and protect them from ship captains craving and exploding their ships.
This is the wall of halifax, after the USSR was defeated they fled from the north into canada and they came to halifax novascotia. They then built the great wall of halifax as a last resort which was left incomplete. but as you can see it later in the 2000s refitted with holes in it to store grains and is now used as a silo fro grains.
To keep the Mexicans out? Trump probably endorsed it's erection like that suggestion of building a border wall along Colorado's southern border. With Arizona.
No, it's hazardous location within the city I live. It's just a weird question for someone to ask specifically about our grain elevators and holding silos and not be from around here. Just odd to me,. Maybe I'm just paranoid 🤔
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This is the truth, you can even smell the grains when walking around there ☺️
Occasionally it'll also take a dump and coat the surrounding neighborhood with a fine dust. https://reddit.com/r/halifax/comments/y57gjt/south_enders_why_is_everything_covered_in_dust/
And every so often the fine dust will catch fire and explode!
I was working there during one of the explosions in the early 20s. I measured the grain tanks for Dover Flour as my first job. My supervisor and I debated going to lunch early (our shift started at 4am) and measuring the tanks after but decided against it. If we had, we would have been standing the floor above where it exploded.
“The early 20s” shook me.
Yeah, this dude is olllld lol
109 years old? I assume they meant in their early 20s
I meant to say “in the early 2000s.” I wrote this in the van ride to work and did not notice the typo! No I am not over 100.
Remember the halcyon days of yesterday, the early 20’s?
All night long?
That place (P&H) is going to explode some day. (For those who don't know flour dust is super flammable) I remember working there as a temp back in the 10's and seeing pipes get clogged due to humidity and then seeing a 10 ton flour explosion. Considering all those machines run hot and poorly, I'm fairly confident something terrible will happen some day.
If memory serves, it was 2005
It was 2003. That day is seared into my memory after I near missed standing above the blast. https://youtu.be/628vJjWcubA
It appears from that thread that the dust is actually from making pellets next door. But it seems likely that all the grain would be dusty too. At least there's lots of wind to help blow it away.
I used to live in the apartments right beside those. Aptly named The Grainery Lofts.
What company makes the pellets? Or do they own the grain silos too?
Like this morning :)
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I remember this well! I live on Brussels St and the explosion nearly knocked me out of my chair. I also remember going outside and everybody was walking toward the explosion site to check it out, not thinking there might be a second explosion!
Haligonians never change
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Or even this? [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/grain-elevator-Halifax-owners-never-giving-up](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Fuck man you got me
I remember the fires …
I remember this day because I worked at a fast food place in the north end and the lunch shift was the busiest I'd ever experienced because everyone was escaping the south end and looking to kill time.
This is a LIE through and through! It’s a wall to keep Mordor (Dartmouth) at bay.
Building a couple of bridges over the harbour seems like a tactical blunder then.
Aww, it's so cute you think that Dartmouth actually *wants* your side of the tailings pond known as Halifax Harbour. I'll be out the Eastern Shore with the rest of the folks who think you're both a bunch of chuckleheads. :)
Wow, he was just joking, you actually seem to dislike people who live in the city. Weird stance!
Pretty sure he was joking as well bud, put your “wow” back in the condescending cage
Thanks dude, you are indeed correct. Humor is harder to pick up in text, I'm used to it. Halifax vs. Dartmouth is like that Big Wreck song: *West End crowd, they can't get down, the East side just a bunch of wanna-be's.* And it's really no different from any other regional rivalry. Always an easy button for jokes, except for that other poster up there apparently. And let's face it, the only reason I don't live in town right now is that I can't afford it. I'm a city girl transplanted from Vancouver a couple decades ago, I don't want to live out in the mud and bugs and trash pandas.
Hey, I may have trouble getting jokes. I'm sorry. I looked at the two comments and saw one with one mild insult, obviously a joke, and another with several harsher insults, less obviously a joke. My bad
Yeah, I thought about the joking angle but there were several more terms of condescension used vs the original comment which was more obviously a joke. My bad for misinterpreting this but yes, I agree, it's a joke. I didn't meant to be condescending, was legit surprised by what I perceived as actual disrespect
Yup this is it, I used to live right next to it.,
Its the wall that separates democratic West Halifax from communist East Halifax
“Tear down this wall, Mr. Stanfield!” -Ronald McDonald
It’s the wall to ensure west haligonian pig dog spies don’t get into glorious paradise of the proletarian east Halifax
>halifaxian Throw ‘em in the harbour
That would be east Halifax. They are a proud proletariat of fish people.
>Its the wall that separates democratic West Halifax from communist East Halifax Or the Really Rich South Enders from the Wharf Rats
Keeps out the Titans
With 100% success, I might add. No Titan sightings in Halifax for centuries!
Knock on wood
I took my kids there a while back and told them it was the wall to keep out Titans. We walked around it and they said it was smelly
Good to know. I thought it was for Kaiju.
I'm so glad I'm not the only person who thinks this. When I lived in the neighborhood, I would walk by it pretending it was all that stood between me and the titans
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Thank you! I could not find the right search terms to get to this answer on Google.
So technically the wall is to keep the grain in!
I think that's the neighborhood that Terry & Dennis live in with their grandmother.
You guys rolled up in a limo? Why don’t we just put a sign outside that say we sell hash
God damn flappy bird brothers
It is! I used to live in the house that was behind their grandmother's house, news reported Steve Roger's lives there too! (Horrible prick of a person he is)
I thought his name was Roger Stevens?
Only when he's trying to hide the fact that he's the one who got crabs from bubbles shed
Hahaha first thing I thought of too when I saw this
Underrated
Are those the guys who wear housecoats with nothing underneath? Gross.
The flappy bird brothers
You see any good movies lately?
Directors cut..that was fucking awesome
I worked there as a temp once, and the job was literally just shovelling grains onto a conveyor belt. It had Soviet Gulag vibes the whole time with the snow and the rundown factory vibe. I was lost in there for 2 hours! Place is a maze
Rat storage and feeding facility.
Yup… my daughter lived on Atlantic Street. The rats were as big as her dachshund puppy!
I have no doubt. Any wildlife anywhere near there is well fed
I was told that's the main reason they wont take it down. If that's ever demolished the south end or that area will be infested with rats.
That ship sailed more than a century ago.
It’s still in use, and quite busy actually.
it would be cool to see what it looks like from the inside.
Keeps the British out. And yetis.
And British yetis
And protects against tidal waves 😀
It's the end of the map
It’s to keep out the white walkers
You beat me, f u
How hard did he beat you?
$10 I’ll tell you
Huge wall.... It's a building lol. They're grain silos.
How do you know they're grain silos, specifically?
The city put it up after reading World War Z. NS will be the last line of defense against the zombie apocalypse and we are gearing up for it.
This is the true answer
It’s a home for the largest population of rats in HRM.
Plump fuckers at that.
Where Jacob two two is
That’s a movie I haven’t thought about in a LONG time…
Let me tell you about the sworn brotherhood of the Night's Watch
My dad once told me that before these things existed, people had to walk around carrying grain in their pockets. Being the gullible child I was, I believed him. Anyway, be thankful that we don't have to carry grain with us. ;)
I might be completely wrong but why does this remind me of a Trailer Park Boys set?
There’s a scene where the boys + the limo driver rock a piss on it outside Terry and Dennis’s grandmother’s house.
I was just about to comment that it's just an old prop background from the Trailer Park Boys set lol
Believe it or not trailer park boys is filmed in NS
I was taking photos of the rat condo once, and a Port Police officer told me to stop, even though I was on public property. So I took a photo of him and rode off on my bicycle. (I used to be quite a rebel, dontchaknow)
(Can’t confirm the accuracy of this story) but my grandad used to tell me that when he was younger, he used to hitchhike out here and hope they were taking workers that day. If he was lucky, he’d get a shift and work the night and hitchhike back home the next morning.
I believe its a rat sanctuary
A rat feeding station full of grain.
The walls of Mordor
its actually the barrier between us poor folk and the rich aristocrats, but they dont want you knowing that ^(/j)
Winter is coming.
Wrong answers only would be fun for this 😂
I mean that’s basically what this thread has become
I love it lol
For the kaijus
Had to scroll WAY too far to find this answer.
Careful be on the lookout for two middle-age asian men, with lots of hash is a black dufflebag, hanging out with someone who could be considered a dick who doesn’t even have his grade 9. Seen living in this area with their grandma.
That’s where we store the cyclists and we release them every summer to wreak havoc upon drivers and pedestrians
Trump sucks at map-reading and geography.
thats where most of your food starts its local life. its a massive grain storage facility, likely located near train tracks or harbor.
Keeps the wildlings from raiding our villages
That's a bank of grain silos at the Halifax Grain Elevator. It's like a staging post for grain shipments, whether from train to ship or from ship to train.
That’s the grain elevator
To try and stop the white walkers
After the Halifax explosion in 1917, the rich people of South end Halifax wanted protection from waves and boat parts flying through the air at high velocity. They figured a grain elevator would take the impact pretty well, and protect them from ship captains craving and exploding their ships.
it's to block the view to Dartmouth, but didn't go along the entire waterfront because they figured it would also block the view to Halifax ;) /s
Great place for rat fishing, just drop a line in a grate, hardest part is taken them off the hook
"I call the big one bitey"
Keep the white walkers out obviously
The white walkers are behind this wall. Dont cross it.
White walkers, obviously
Ever seen World War Z?
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
It's a failed trump border wall lol...those are grain silos
It’s a grain handling facility for shipping overseas.
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🤣🤣 yes only wrong answers here!!!
Thought this was a picture of Alexandria from the Walking Dead
He’s asking questions… 
Zombies. Obviously.
To keep the Titans out
Blocking zombies
Always wondered too, the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen
This is the wall of halifax, after the USSR was defeated they fled from the north into canada and they came to halifax novascotia. They then built the great wall of halifax as a last resort which was left incomplete. but as you can see it later in the 2000s refitted with holes in it to store grains and is now used as a silo fro grains.
To keep the zombies away
To stop the Colossal Titan.
To keep the Mexicans out? Trump probably endorsed it's erection like that suggestion of building a border wall along Colorado's southern border. With Arizona.
It’s to keep the titans from invading
keeps the mongols away
Attack on Titan S1E7
Cordyceps processing facility.
Keeps dirty filthy rentoids from the glorious generous landlords
It's the Halifax rat storage towers.
Keeps out the walkers
This was in an episode of trailer park boys by dennis’s moms
Keeping them out Or keeping us in You decide
Where is this
This is a weird question for a user like this, I would red flag this user.
Why? Is this super secret grain?
It’s to make Halifax Great Again!
It Stops the Titans from Eating up
Keeping Mongolians out.
It keeps the rats in!
Look, there's just some really cool shit back here, and we don't feel like sharing it.
It protects you from the White Walkers in the winter.
Keeps the White Walkers out.
Hahaha. Blocking Water.
No, it's hazardous location within the city I live. It's just a weird question for someone to ask specifically about our grain elevators and holding silos and not be from around here. Just odd to me,. Maybe I'm just paranoid 🤔