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experienced inconsistent service standards or denial of service. Driven by the need to address the discrimination, community members organized a meeting in 1964 to discuss the possibility of establishing their own volunteer fire service. The initiative gained further traction after a local resident,
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Hammonds Plains area. In 2020, the Upper Hammonds Plains Community Development Association proposed a Creative Arts & Recreation Facility for the community's youth at the site of the vacant fire hall. The Halifax Regional Council voted to return the
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Mantley, donated a parcel of land. The men of the community took it upon themselves to build a fire hall and established an all-Black volunteer fire department to protect their community due to the lack of emergency services in the area.
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Station 50 in what was formerly Lower Hammonds Plains. Under Fire & Emergency Services, the building was designated as Fire Station #51 Upper Hammonds Plains.
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