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Visit Sleepy Cove Battery, York Redoubt, Nova Scotia, Canada
Structures at Sleepy Cove battery, include three search light batteries, two concrete lookout towers (how gone) and two gun emplacements which originally held two 12-pounder guns, but were later replaced with 6 pounder guns.
York Redoubt was a key element in the defence of Halifax Harbour in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was a command center for harbour defences in World War II, which included observation posts, a defensive minefield and a new gun battery below the fort at Sleepy Cove covering the anti-submarine net which stretched across the harbour's entrance from Fort McNab on McNabs Island. York Redoubt remained in military use until 1956.
In 1938 the battery’s guns were removed from the Connaught Battery and a new quick-firing battery was then constructed at the York Shore Battery (Sleepy Cove) in 1939.
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