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Halifax Dockyard Diorama

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Sydney Tram

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Western Union Office, North Sydney

The Western Union Cable Station in North Sydney as it appeared just before demolition in 2016 (above) and in its heyday about 1920 (below). Source. Source.

Skating on Lake Banook

Beautiful Day on the Lake, 1995 watercolour by Tom Forrestall, shows Lake Banook in Dartmouth, contender for the title "Birthplace of Hockey". Source.

Lighthouses of Louisbourg

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Demolition of Moxham Castle

Demolition of Moxham Castle, Sydney Nova Scotia, 1966. The mansion was built in 1890 in Lorain, Ohio by steel magnate A. J. Moxham, and then dismantled and moved to Sydney in 1898 when he took charge of the Sydney steel plant. But the Moxhams abandoned the house in 1902 when their son was killed in an accident at the plant.  Source. See also.

Beazley Fields

Beazley Fields, off Caledonia Road in Dartmouth, was the home ground of the Nova Scotia Clippers of the Canadian Soccer League in 1991. I've never been there, too many rules.

It's the Challenge Cup, Round Three. Morton visit Links Park to face Montrose FC. These two teams met in the playoffs at the end of last season: Montrose won the first leg 2 - 1 at home, and Morton won the return leg 3 - 1 at Cappielow. Currently Montrose are sixth in League One.

Montrose got here by defeating Stirling Albion in Round Two, while Morton beat Celtic B.

Montrose's Kerr Waddell played for Morton in 2018-19. No one from Morton has played for Montrose.

What match between Morton and Montrose made the biggest difference?

2021/5/11      Morton 3 - 1 Montrose

Had Morton lost they would be in League One today.

The winner of this match will face Queen of the South in the quarter-finals.

Morton played Arbroath last weekend. What has been the longest string of games between Morton and clubs from Angus?  Three:

1966/9/3        Morton 2 - 0 Arbroath        League Cup group stage

1966/9/5        Brechin 1 - 2 Morton         League Cup supl. round

1966/9/7        Morton 5 - 2 Brechin         League Cup supl. round

again:

1967/4/15      Montrose 2 - 0 Morton       league

1967/4/17      Brechin 0 - 4 Morton          league

1967/4/22      Morton 0 - 0 Arbroath        league

and again:

2021/4/30      Arbroath 0 - 0 Morton        league

2021/5/8        Montrose 2 - 1 Morton       playoffs

2021/5/11      Morton 3 - 1 Montrose       playoffs

Morton have sold the Love Street roof they bought from St Mirren for £50,000 twelve years ago and never installed to a scrap dealer.

Garrity has been loaned out to Annan. Oksanen has been called up by Finland. Goalkeeper Chris Wylie has left the club. He leaves with a perfect record, only ever having appeared in that Challenge Cup Round Two win over Celtic B.

As of October 7th Jim McInally (Morton manager 2004-08) has been manager of Peterhead FC for ten years.

Footy Adventures visited Cappielow last week.

[Montrose 0 - 0 Morton. Morton win on PK. Morton shootout scorers: Knowles, Reilly, Blues and Oliver.]

The other Challenge Cup matches:

Hamilton Academical 2 - 0 Aberdeen B (October 6)

Kilmarnock 3 - 1 Queen's Park (yesterday)

Queen of the South 2 - 0 Partick Thistle (yesterday)

Elgin City [2 - 4] Inverness CT

Raith Rovers [3 - 1] East Fife

Cove Rangers [4 - 1] Albion Rovers

Alloa vs Ayr United Rangers B (October 27)

Other matches:

UCD vs Treaty United (last night) (postponed)

J2: Mito HollyHock [2 - 1] Kusatsu (tomorrow)

JFL: FC Kariya 1 - 1 Veertien Mie (yesterday)

Blantyre Victoria [0 - 5] Largs Thistle

East Kilbride 3 - 0 Dalbeattie Star (October 5)

University of Stirling [0 - 3] East Kilbride

Formartine United 4 - 2 Clachnacuddin (October 6)

Clachnacuddin [4 - 3] Fort William

HFX Wanderers 0 - 1 Forge (October 6)

Eccleshall [0 - 4] FC Isle of Man

Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara [1 - 0] Elfen Saitama (tomorrow)

TPS 1 - 3 VPS (yesterday)

1999-2000

October 9, 1999.    Clydebank hosted Dunfermline Athletic at Cappielow. The Pars won 1 - 4. Peter Cormack scored for the Bankies. Attendance 475. Morton did not play.

Greenock Morton results for 1891-92:

Morton were a member of the Scottish Football Alliance in 1891-92. They also played in the preliminary rounds of the Scottish Cup, as well as the Renfrewshire Cup and the Greenock and District Charity Cup. And there were friendlies, some of them against other members of the Scottish Alliance. I have followed the Scottish Football Historical Archive as to which games are genuine Scottish Alliance matches, and have treated the others as friendlies.

There were three senior leagues operating in Scotland in 1891-92: the SFL, the Scottish Alliance, and the Scottish Federation. Twelve of today's SPFL clubs were in these leagues: Dumbarton, Celtic, Hearts, Rangers, Clyde and St Mirren in the SFL; Kilmarnock, Morton and Partick Thistle in the Alliance; and Albion Rovers, Falkirk and Motherwell in the Federation.

1892/5/28      Morton 4 - 1 Dumbarton         Greenock Charity Cup final

1892/5/24      Thistle 1 - 3 Morton                 Scottish Alliance

1892/5/21      Morton 3 - 1 Port Glasgow             friendly

1892/5/7        Morton 4 - 2 Kilmarnock Athletic    friendly

1892/5/5        Morton 1 - 0 Partick Thistle    Greenock Charity Cup R1

1892/4/30      Morton 3 - 1 E. Stirlingshire    Scottish Alliance

1892/4/27      Morton 2 - 1 Argyllshire                friendly                source?

1892/4/23      Morton 3 - 3 Kilmarnock          Scottish Alliance

1892/4/16      E. Stirlingshire 5 - 2 Morton     Scottish Alliance

1892/4/9        Morton 3 - 2 King's Park          Scottish Alliance

1892/4/2        St Bernard's 1 - 1 Morton         Scottish Alliance

1892/3/26      Morton 3 - 1 Ayr FC                Scottish Alliance

1892/3/19      King's Park 3 - 5 Morton         Scottish Alliance

1892/3/12      Airdrieonians 6 - 3 Morton        Scottish Alliance

1892/3/5        Morton 5 - 4 St Mirren                   friendly

1892/2/27      Morton 5 - 3 Linthouse            Scottish Alliance

1892/2/13      Ayr FC 5 - 3 Morton                  Scottish Alliance

1892/2/6        Kilmarnock 8 - 1 Morton           Scottish Alliance

1892/1/30      Morton 3 - 1 Partick Thistle      Scottish Alliance

1892/1/23      Abercorn 2 - 1 Morton            Renfrewshire Cup SF

1892/1/9        Abercorn 3 - 2 Morton                   friendly

1892/12/26    Dykebar 2 - 5 Morton            Renfrewshire Cup R3

1892/12/19    Dykebar 1 - 3 Morton (abandoned)    Renfrewshire Cup R3

1891/12/12    Dykebar 7 - 1 Morton (abandoned)    Renfrewshire Cup R3

1891/12/5      Morton 5 - 2 Thistle                Scottish Alliance

1891/11/28    Morton vs King's Park (postponed)    Scottish Alliance

1891/11/21    Morton 4 - 3 Dykebar                    friendly?

1891/11/14    Northern 6 - 0 Morton              Scottish Alliance

1891/11/7      Morton 1 - 2 Port Glasgow       Scottish Alliance

1891/10/31    Thistle 6 - 4 Morton                        friendly?

1891/10/24    Morton 4 - 1 Airdrieonians      Scottish Alliance

1891/10/17    Monkcastle 4 - 2 Morton          Scottish Cup PR2

1891/10/10    Morton 3 - 1 St Bernard's       Scottish Alliance

1891/10/3      Linthouse 6 - 0 Morton            Scottish Alliance

1891/9/26      Morton 3 - 1 Airdrieonians              friendly?

1891/9/19      Port Glasgow 5 - 5 Morton      Scottish Alliance

1891/9/12      Morton 7 - 1 Kilbirnie              Scottish Cup PR1

1891/9/5        Kilbirnie 2 - 2 Morton               Scottish Cup PR1

1891/8/29      Morton 4 - 3 Northern             Scottish Alliance

1891/8/22      Partick Thistle 1 - 2 Morton    Scottish Alliance

1891/8/15      Morton 1 - 2 Abercorn                    friendly

(Sources: SFHA for the Scottish Alliance, Renfrewshire Cup, the January 9 friendly, and Greenock and District Charity Cup; Glasgow Herald for Scottish Cup Qualifying and the other friendlies.)

Toshiko MacAdam

Toshiko MacAdam of Bridgetown, Nova Scotia makes macrame play structures that have been installed as far afield as Hokkaido and Rome. Source.

Pentagon

From 1860 to 1969 the Pentagon Building stood just to the north of what is now NSCAD's Granville Street campus, about where an elevated pedestrian walkway now runs between Scotia Square and Purdy's Wharf. It was five stories high and five-sided. Source.

Halifax Arena, Shirley Street

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