In the olden Days, Highway 7 used to travel from Main Road (now Bedford Highway) to Hatchery Lane to Wardour Drive to Dartmouth Road. The route used to travel like 280 kilometers. The route became shorter when highway 7 made a new section between Wardour Drive and The Future Bedford Highway where it was also Concurrent when Highway 1 Used to Began in Halifax until 1970.The Chickenburger relocation where the original location was torn down due to this highway section. Highway 7 was a 2 lane highway between Bedford and Dartmouth until the 1960s.
Dartmouth
From Bedford at the intersection of Trunk 2, Trunk 7 leaves to the southeast along the eastern shore of the Bedford Basin, then climbs Magazine Hill next to the Canadian ForcesMagazine and enters Dartmouth on Windmill Road. Through Downtown Dartmouth, it is known as Alderney Drive, which turns into Prince Albert Road past Sullivan's Pond as it runs along the shore of Lake Banook. At Grahams Grove Park, Trunk 7 continues through the Micmac Parclo, on to Main Street, past Highway 111 and to the community of Westphal, bypassing Cole Harbour to the south. Until 1970, Highway 7 ran from Portland Street to Prince Albert Road.[3]