Thanks, Bernie, that's really interesting!  They look like they were custom built for that purpose, though perhaps they used a standard chassis modified for rail use?  The bus furthest from the shot looks like it has a grille and headlight design that I've seen before but can't place.

Here's another one that I have since found on the Ingenium site:

Built 1935 by the Evans Auto Products Company. Seating capacity 25. Scrapped in 1946. This bus operated over lines of the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway.

 

Public domain photograph.  Link to site:  https://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/39636/

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This is one of my favourite Halifax Muncipal Archives photos.  It shows a '67 Grande Parisienne with a 1968 sticker on the plate, so a 1 year old GP.  It also has a Beacon Pontiac badge on the trunk, which is where my Dad worked back then.  The location of the pic is somewhere in the downtown of Halifax.  There's quite a bit of dust on it, so it may have been sitting for awhile - it looks like it may be on a used car lot.  There was a lot of construction going on in the downtown at that time, which could account for the dust accumulation.

 

Image source:  https://7046.sydneyplus.com/archive/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AABC&record=63668bf5-a0b6-4e2c-93fb-3685eb08b303

Retrieval code: 102-39-1-1105.1  HRM Archives, City of Halifax Engineering and Works Department photograph.

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 I think the dust you are seeing is actually pot ash. From the power generating plant that burned coal, and every once in a while the boiler would burp and send a plume of the ash over the surrounding area from the smoke stack, covering everything in a thin layer of the ash over a large area. NSP would send out water trucks to hose everything down afterwards so that they wouldnt get a bunch of invoices for car washes and house cleaning.

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  It shows a '67 Grande Parisienne with a 1968 sticker on the plate, so a 1 year old GP.

 

 

 

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 I only see a 66 sticker? Or is the red from 68? I think it must be a virtually brand new car?

I imagine the kids are probably crying because it's not a 409,

Richard BH/Flickr. Public image.

And still running the snow tires in the middle of summer...

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The red sticker is from 1968. NS did that back then - they would issue a plate with a year stamped into it and then later renew it with stickers.  In the 1950s, on some years you would get just the bottom sliver of the plate with a new year stamped on it, that you would install over the bottom part of the existing plate.

This would have been fairly new, yes, but still a used car as you can see from the weathered trailer hitch.

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 Example of 1956 plate (1956 section installed on 1952 plate):

NOVA SCOTIA 1956 license plate by Jerry "Woody", on Flickr

Example of 1968 plate (68 sticker on 66 plate):

NOVA SCOTIA 1968 license plate by Jerry "Woody", on Flickr

Example of 1971 plate (71 sticker on 69 plate):

NOVA SCOTIA 1971 license plate by Jerry "Woody", on Flickr

After 1971, they no longer stamped a year on the plate.  The sticker system that is still around today determined the year of the plate (or more accurately, its expiry date for the current period, which is currently 2 years in NS).