2 Bridge Street, Sackville, N.B |
1886-87 The initial ground floor tenant was The Merchant Bank of Halifax. It became the Royal Bank of Canada in 1901. In 1909, when the Royal Bank moved into another building across the street, the Bank of Nova Scotia acquired the ground floor and they remained at this site until 1978. The third floor was intended for the social activities of numerous Sackville lodges. |
This site is listed in the Canadian Register of Historic Places ; for fuller details see Powell Block
This building is within the Town of Sackville Municipal Heritage Conservation Area A. See Jackson, K. and C. Scobie, Sackville Then and Now: New Brunswick’s Oldest Town in Photographs (Sackville, N.B.: Tantramar Heritage Trust, 2013), p.23. |