Robie Street

Robie Street is a north-south artery that runs for 7 km in the Halifax Peninsula area of the Halifax Regional Municipality from Memorial Drive in the North End to Gorsebrook Avenue in the South End.

On the Halifax Peninsula street grid system, civic numbers range from 820 to 3899.

[1] The street was named after Simon Bradstreet Robie (1770–1858), a prominent Nova Scotia judge and politician.

[2] There are also streets named after Judge Robie in Truro and Amherst, Nova Scotia.

[3] At first, Robie was mainly a residential and commercial street, but in 1882, the Nova Scotia Cotton Manufacturing Company was constructed at the intersection with Almon Street, which was followed by a series of other factories and created an industrial district at the north end of Robie.