Henry Hicks Academic Administration Building, the heart of Dalhousie University's Studley CampusDalhousie University's primary campuses are situated in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, spanning the Halifax Peninsula near Halifax Harbour, while the Dalhousie University Agricultural Campus is located in rural Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Some examples are Kingston Harbour in Jamaica, Subic, Zambales in the Philippines ; Sydney Harbour in Australia ; Pearl Harbor in Hawaii ; San Francisco Bay in California ; Visakhapatnam Harbour in Andhra Pradesh, India ; and Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Perhaps the most dramatic moment in the war for Nova Scotia was when HMS Shannon escorted the captured American frigate USS Chesapeake into Halifax Harbour ( 1813 ).

Even though both cities were merged into the Halifax Regional Municipality they are geographically separated by Halifax Harbour and still retain separate identities.

** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1, 963 people, injures 9, 000 and destroys part of the city ( until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history ).

* Bedford Basin, part of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia

Located on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour, Dartmouth has been nicknamed the City of Lakes after the large number of lakes located in the city.

Municipal officials at Halifax decided that these new arrivals should be settled on the eastern side of Halifax Harbour.

The HRM community council for Dartmouth is the Harbour East Community Council and community council meetings are held in the council chamber of the Halifax Regional School Board building ( formerly the Dartmouth City Hall ) on the first Thursday of every month.

A railway trestle was built across Halifax Harbour in the late 19th century to bring rail service to Dartmouth however it was destroyed by a storm, requiring the present railway connection built around Bedford Basin.

During the early 1950s, construction began on the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge, a suspension bridge crossing Halifax Harbour.

It was dug in the 1830s as part of the Shubenacadie Canal to connect Halifax Harbour with Cobequid Bay on the Bay of Fundy.

The Fort was used to help faciltate the Expulsion of the Acadians, many Acadians being imprisoned on Georges Island in Halifax Harbour.

The soldiers at Fort George were on alert when Nova Scotia became the site of two international incidents during the American Civil War: the Chesapeake Affair and the escape from Halifax Harbour of Confederate John Taylor Wood on the CSS Tallahassee.

The role of Fort George in the defense of Halifax Harbour had evolved by the turn of the 20th century to becoming a command centre for other, more distant harbour defensive works, as well as providing barrack accommodations.

* RMS Atlantic, a steamship that sank off Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1873

Acadia University is located in the town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, approximately 100 kilometres northwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia the provincial capital.

* Propeller Brewing Co., Halifax, Nova Scotia " Spring Bock ," a Heller Bock style

From 1763 to 1784 the island was administratively part of the colony of Nova Scotia and governed from Halifax.

" Eastern Coyote: Story of Its Success ", Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The War of 1812 had some effect on the shipping industry in the Maritime colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton Island ; however, the significant Royal Navy presence in Halifax and other ports in the region prevented any serious attempts by American raiders.

The major communities of the region include Halifax and Sydney in Nova Scotia, Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton in New Brunswick, and Charlottetown in Prince Edward Island.

Halifax skyline from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia has a growing metropolitan area surrounding Halifax, but a contracting population in industrial Cape Breton, and several smaller centres in Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, and Pictou County.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

The NDP has elected Members of Parliament ( MPs ) from New Brunswick, but most of the focus of the party at the federal and provincial levels is currently in the Halifax area of Nova Scotia.

* 1917 – Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1, 900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Dalhousie University ( commonly known as Dalhousie or Dal ) is a public research university with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and a fourth, the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, in Truro, Nova Scotia.

Dalhousie was founded as a result of the desires of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to establish a non-denominational college in Halifax.

The project, which used Craig Venter's personal yacht, Sorcerer II, started in Halifax, Canada, circumnavigated the globe and returned to the U. S. in January 2006.

He left New York on 27 March, but his ship, the SS Kristianiafjord, was intercepted by British naval officials in Canada at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and he spent a month detained at Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was established in 1873 and is locally called The Mount.

The Welsford-Parker Monument in Halifax is the oldest war monument in Canada ( 1860 ) and the only Crimean War monument in North America.

John Thompson also died outside Canada, at Windsor Castle, where Queen Victoria permitted his lying-in-state before his body was returned to Canada for a state funeral in Halifax.

Traveling 4, 176 miles ( 6, 720 km ) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia, in a 1912 REO special touring car, mechanic / driver Fonce V. ( Jack ) Haney and journalist Thomas W. Wilby made the first trip by automobile across Canada ( including one short jaunt into northeastern Washington State when the Canadian roads were virtually impassable.

* Stepping Stone ( Halifax, Canada )

It is the largest office building in New Brunswick in terms of square footage and second in Atlantic Canada behind the Maritime Centre in Halifax.

In the mid-1980s, The Victoria General Hospital, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, introduced paramedic triage in its Emergency Department.

* Halifax and Dartmouth ( Canada ) were forcibly merged in 1996 along with Bedford and Halifax County to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.

In 1963, Volvo opened the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant, the first assembly plant in the company's history outside of Sweden in Halifax, Canada.

An early use of the term outside the United States was in the creation of Sam Slick, the " Yankee Clockmaker ", in a column in a newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1835.