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Halifax coupled with the difficulty in building a new one. They also suggested a refurbishment
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time to their individual apartments. Unlike most private landlords and other universities in the area, Dalhousie paid for all displaced students and families to be housed in hotels until the green light was given to return.
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filled the elevator shafts with seventeen feet of water. In 1971, when the first residents began to move in, complaints were made of apartments missing heat, windows, and other furnishings or amenities.
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