Halifax’s Public Gardens may not have been open to everyone, all the time, but the Gardens certainly catered to many tastes. The Gardens have been the site of agricultural shows, concerts, public readings, and more informal meetings: strolls,…

As the Halifax Common and later the Public Gardens emerged, they became the source of settler civic pride. Of course, the land on which the Public Gardens sits is part of the traditional and contemporary territory of the Mi’kmaq. Before we go any…