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.

* University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia has a History of Science and Technology Program.

Halifax, Nova Scotia also has numerous microclimates.

The Halifax Gibbet was certainly substantial, but no date of first use has been made certain as of yet.

Halifax has its own police and fire departments, both of which are headquartered near the town center.

Halifax has no private schools ; the nearest are in Kingston and Bridgewater.

Since 2005, Halifax Film, a new company formed by Salter co-founder Michael Donovan, has produced the show.

The Greetland Social has club has three table tennis teams which play in the Halifax table tennis league.

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.

As a community, Dartmouth has often tended to distinguish itself from the community and former city of Halifax, even under the present municipal amalgamation.

Fort George has a living history program featuring animators portraying life in the fort where soldiers of the 78th Highland Regiment and the 78th Highlanders ( Halifax Citadel ) Pipe Band who re-enact life in 1869.

During the 1970s and 1980s he lived at Ovenden, in Halifax, England where a bronze plaque has been commissioned in his memory.

* On July 26, 2007, Jennifer Alexander ( who has Type 1 Diabetes ) of Halifax, swam a double crossing in 19 hours, 17 minutes.

Acconci has taught at many institutions, including the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax ; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia ; Cooper Union ; School of the Art Institute of Chicago ; Yale University ; Pratt Institute ; and the Parsons School of Design.

To one of his supporters, Harold Begbie, Halifax was " the highest kind of Englishman now in politics " whose " life and doctrine were in complete harmony with a very lofty moral principle, but who has no harsh judgement for men who err and go astray ".

Since the 1980s, it has been printed in separate editions in six Canadian cities: Halifax, Montreal, Toronto ( several editions ), Winnipeg ( actually printed in Brandon, Manitoba ), Calgary and Vancouver.

Michael Donovan has formed the Halifax Film Company with many of the former Salter Street employees.

* Monponsett: On the southern border with Halifax and has its own post office and zip code ( 02350 ).

Poole Harbour has an area of approximately and is one of several which lay claim to the title of the world's largest or second largest natural harbour ( including Cork Harbour in Ireland and Halifax Harbour in Canada ).

As of December 2010, Halifax has become a clearing bank, meaning that it can now accept Bank Giro Credits.

This has led to major changes in counter services in Halifax branches, requiring paying and withdrawal slips to be completed to carry out transactions.

The museum's striking location on the Halifax waterfront has made the Museum the site of several significant public events.

* Neptune Theatre, Halifax, built in 1915 it was originally known as the Strand Theatre and is reputed to be the first vaudeville house designed and built specifically as a theatre.

* Neptune Theatre ( Halifax ) 1963 Tom Patterson ( Nova Scotia ) ( regional )

* 2007 Neptune Theatre ( Halifax ), Canada: directed by Brian Richmond, starring Ruth Madoc-Jones, Dan Lett and Lenore Zann

The Neptune Theatre is the largest professional theatre company in Atlantic Canada with a capacity of 497 and is located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

While a student, he designed posters for the Hart House Theatre and Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia and had a one man show of drawings and paintings at Toronto's Pollock Gallery in 1961.

He later took similar positions with the Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia ( 1978 – 83 ) and other Canadian theatre companies, including as artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada from 1985 – 89, as well as continuing his acting career.

" at Neptune Theatre ( Halifax ).

See Culture of the Halifax Regional Municipality # Theatre.

* The Theatre Arts Guild, a community theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia

After four increasingly successful seasons with the indie troupe and two summers acting and directing in a company called Festival Antigonish, Wilcox went on to complete a Masters in Theatre Direction at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas before returning to Halifax in 2007.

* The Sir James Dunn Law Library, the Sir James Dunn Building for Physics and the Sir James Dunn Theatre at the Arts Center at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia ;

In 2008 the National Theatre of the World won the RBC Arts Professional Award and have performed their shows as part of Toronto's Summerworks Theatre Festival, the Global Cabaret Festival, at Theatre Passe Muraille as well as in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Charleston, Edmonton, Hamilton and Halifax.

His most recent stage work includes starring in the world premiere of a Sterling Award-winning one-man show written and directed by Ron Jenkins called Extinction Song for both the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton and Eastern Front Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, earning him his eighth Sterling Award Nomination and his first Robert Merritt Award Nomination.

His first professional appearance was as an extra in Henry Baynton's production of Julius Caesar at the Theatre Royal in Halifax in the 1920s.

Despite aggressive expansion previously, this time, Famous Players, focused on improvements elsewhere, did not match Empire's moves, which included an eighteen-screen ( including one Empire Imax Theatre Screen ) multiplex in suburban Halifax.

Many Empire venues supply New York Fries, Pretzelmaker, TCBY, and Pizza Hut, or Pizza Pizza ( such as Empire Theatres Pen Centre, Empire Studio 12 Guildford and Empire Theatres Bayer's Lake and IMAX Theatre in Bayer's Lake-Suburban Halifax, NS ).

* Shakespeare by the Sea, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

* Shakespeare by the Sea, Halifax

Shakespeare by the Sea is a professional theatre company and registered society ( Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies ID: 2365312 ) in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

in theatre at Dalhousie University in Halifax and then did further studies with " Shakespeare and Company " in Bennington, Vermont.