Street Guide to Metro Halifax.

John Abbott is a professor of history at Laurentian University’s Algoma University College. He is the co-author of The Border at Sault Ste Marie and The History of Fort St. Joseph.

One really wonders what purpose this rather thick volume of verbal instructions for locating addresses in metropolitan Halifax (or metropolitan anywhere) might serve. Those who drive cars equipped with GPS will find it clumsy and redundant. Natives of Halifax are likely to know where the streets are, in any case, and on the rare occasion when they don’t, will find it more convenient and cheaper to consult a map. No traveller will consider lugging around volumes such as this. The only conceivable use for such a doorstop would be in cities where prospective taxi drivers have to submit to a test for “The Knowledge,” as drivers of black cabs in London have had to do since 1865. No such examination is required anywhere else in the world.

Not recommended.