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Sights
Downtown
Historic Properties
NOTABLE BUILDING
(
www.historicproperties.ca
)
The Historic Properties are a group of restored buildings on Up-
per Water St, built between 1800 and 1905. Originally designed as huge warehouses for
easy storage of goods and cargo, they now house boutiques, restaurants and bars and are
connected by waterfront boardwalks. Artisans, merchants and buskers do business
around the buildings in the summer. The 1814
Privateers Warehouse
is the area's oldest
stone building. The privateers were government sanctioned and sponsored pirates who
stored their booty here. Among the other vintage buildings are the wooden
Old Red
Store
, once used for shipping operations and as a sail loft, and
Simon's Warehouse
,
built in 1854.
Alexander Keith's
Nova Scotia Brewery
BREWERY
( 902-455-1474;
www.keiths.ca
;
Brewery Market, 1496 Lower Water St; adult/child $16/8;
11am-8pm Mon-Thu, to 9pm Fri & Sat, noon-4pm Sun)
A tour of this brewery takes you to 19th-
century Halifax via costumed thespians, quality brew and dark corridors. Finish your
hour-long tour with a party in the basement pub with beer on tap and ale-inspired yarns.
Note that you'll need your ID. Kids are kept happy with lemonade.
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
MUSEUM
( 902-424-7490;
http://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/
; 1675 Lower Water St; adult/child
$9.25/5;
9:30am-5pm Wed-Mon, to 8pm Tue)
Part of this fun waterfront museum used to
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