Everyone gets excited about the Tall Ships and the first was a buzz in the city.  Here are some ads from June 1984, click to enlarge any of the pics.

Downtown Dartmouth Merchants were in on it:

Spring Garden Merchants were in as well:

Five Fisherman realized the synergy before synergy was a buzzword:

the Feds of course had to be rules-y:

…and of course Gentleman Jim Nunn and CBC were there for us like they always are:

Source: http://halifax.retales.ca/some-ads-from-tall-ships-84/