Frozen in Time: Halifax's Secret Tunnels

[@gooblesnork]

More than likely this is an old coal tunnel. They are all over Halifax. The horse drawn wagon would go down the street and once in front of the opening to the tunnel (Usually steel doors on the sidewalk), they would open them up and dump the coal in. From there the building operator; there was one in pretty much every building in downtown, would shovel into a cart and bring to the coal fired furnace. They would have to keep the furnace going night and day all winter to keep the building warm. You can see at 1673 Barrington street along the base of the Colwell building the metal eyelets where the chains would be attached to dump the coal into the basements. The same tunnel can be seen in the Colwell building from the furnace to the street.

[@rippinbowlz4205]

Buddy really couldn't bring a flash light

[@721876101]

I was thinking it was Halifax England, devo.

[@Harold779]

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

[@OhSusannah63]

You would never catch me down there, but they are a very interesting find. In terms of our miltary history, they are no doubt related to easy access to the harborfront area. I do wonder why these two men didn't use a good halogen lamp/flashllight. They could've ventured much further down the tunnels. Great video.

[@902christy]

Funny, my Grandfather worked for the city of Halifax parks and grounds for many many years. I have never heard him speak of this, from many stories he has told about the city! Thanks for posting!

[@jamesbaird1149]

most of the are still highly top secret...

[@keithjackson7075]

James Baird mkfg

[@jamesbaird1149]

keith jackson English please

[@courtneymarierussell8942]

Kristy W id love to know some of these stories! Im from halifax too

[@dk6578]

I want to rent the tunnel. I was born and raised in Halifax. I've heard all my life about these tunnels, one is supposedly in Point Pleasant Park, I may know where the entrance is, but it's closed in by dirt. I found one tunnel myself near the Via Rail station, it badly needs to be cleared of rocks and dirt. The ones from Citadel hill are obvious, you can see the sealed entrances all up the side of the hill which faces the Harbor. These entrances were open until about 20 years ago or so. As far as I have heard, there are tunnels everywhere.

[@sneakyandy8518]

Darryl Kinslow do you know of any tunnels worth exploring?

[@jayy17783]

​@@sneakyandy8518there's an entrance in park lane you can get too I'm pretty sure

[@secondaccount1416]

​@jayy17783 do you know more about these park lane tunnels?

[@dk6578]

@@secondaccount1416 The tunnels that they refer to at Park Lane were actually at Scotia Square mall. There was one running to the Metro Center and one running form the Metro center to Prince George hotel, they were open and being used up until a couple years ago and were only as old as the mall. There is another one at Park Lane mall, with a locked metal door, which can be found next to the entrance on the corner of Barrington and Duke, you can see the rectangle on Google Earth. I worked in Park Lane and the only thing resembling tunnels there were the service hallways behind the shops on the main floor

[@davebrittain9216]

So odd how he said the smell was kind of not too bad. When I was a kid I used to love going down in my grandmas farm house dirt floor basement. There was such a nice old earth smell. Was nice in cool in the heat of the summer too.

[@lioncrunch]

The new invention, the Torch obviously hasn't reached this far north.

[@laurayoung6158]

very cool...and I wondered the same thing about the flashlight

[@billybonewhacker]

rediscovered? since when, when they put in the plumbing clean outs, or the the electrical conduit?

[@alanwood5857]

Flashlight might be better than a trouble light?...

[@beana666]

I'm assuming from the accents that this Halifax is in Canada, NOT Yorkshire!

[@jockmcscottish7569]

I also came for Halifax West Yorks. Should be made clearer in the title!

[@007tallguy]

what accents? and i'm in Halifax every day, never heard of any Yorkshire Halifax or West Yorks.

[@Sion.Ryan.Green.]

Beana G H I thought it was Halifax West Yorkshire too, England UK.

[@ryanschumann3785]

I realised the same its not Halifax in UK

[@theyorkshireninja5023]

Ah well, at least I'm not alone as I thought it was the West Yorkshire one too!

[@IKS-Exploration]

excellent video :)

[@cherl2289]

I desperately want to go exploring there !

[@1silvervespa]

Heard of Flashlights ? Yeah being under the Street is not Just being in a basement . Doh.

[@projectdae3807]

Very interesting

[@Nova_Scotia_Adventurer]

awesome

[@thepowerpuffgirls7914]

I wonder how long those pipes have been there?

[@thepowerpuffgirls7914]

I wish to see them. It would be great if I could 'discover' them and have a map of some sort.

[@1silvervespa]

Ended a bit sudden video that is ....

[@fifipog]

'fuck the cobwebs' ruthless.

[@spacecoyote6646]

I gave it a dislike because of the two ads I had to watch before I can watch the video

[@williamredfern2683]

MUCH MORE IMPORTANT, A QUESTION, DO CATS FART ?

[@unitato3335]

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[@Cnile73]

The darker secret much bigger than the network of tunnels in Halifax Yorkshire is the fact the tunnels are inhabited by canadians.....