Canada Guide
The Maritime Provinces
Grand Parade
Retracing your steps down past the Clock Tower, keep straight along Carmichael Street to reach the tree-lined, elongated square known as Grand Parade, the social centre of the nineteenth-century town. For the officer corps, this was the place to be seen walking on a Sunday, when, as one obsequious observer wrote, "their society generally [was] sought, frequently courted, and themselves esteemed" – a judgement rather different from that of the radical journalist Joseph Howe, who hated their "habits of idleness, dissipation and expense".