The Glen Novinger Family arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1969 after 2 years living in Managua, Nicaragua. The change from Managua to Halifax was from a tropical climate to a northern Atlantic chilly to cold temperate climate and from a Latin American Spanish culture to an Anglo/British based English culture. But I would not want to neglect the opportunity to say that we loved the life of the Maritime Provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia in particular; and we end up spending several years living in Halifax.
In 1969 I was sent to Nova Scotia by the International Division of Citibank as Senior Regional Officer of the Mercantile Bank of Canada. In this position I had responsibility for the banking operations in the four Maritime Provinces of the Mercantile Bank, a Canadian Chartered Bank with its head office in Montreal. My office was in the Halifax Branch of the Bank at One Sackville Street and Water Street. From my office I could look across Water Street to the wharves and the harbour and watch the workers each morning bring out the drying racks filled with cod fish to dry in the sun and air.
Upon arrival in Halifax we purchased a home at 1941 Woodlawn Terrace, above the Northwest Arm of the ocean, where we lived from 1969 to 1971. From the second floor bedrooms one could see the NW Arm and the sail boats moored on the Arm at the Yacht Club. Our Woodlawn Terrace house was built at the turn of the century by ships wrights who were unemployed as a consequence of the end of the great schooner ship period in the last of the 19th Century. The house had fine hand fitted oak moldings, doors, window seats, and stairway. The garden was a main feature of the house with a large rock garden flowing down from the house to the street. It was a wonderful home at the end of a "U" shaped street.
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