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.

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

The county was formed in 1767 from Halifax County.

* Halifax County, Virginia-east

Prior to the formation of Patrick County, one of the Virginia colony's first frontier forts lay within the boundaries of what was then Halifax County on the banks of the North Mayo River.

Halifax County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Tobacco barn, Edgewood Farm, Halifax County

Halifax County was established in 1752 by English colonists from Lunenburg County.

Through the 1990 Census, the City of South Boston in Halifax County was a separate county.

South Boston became a town again and rejoined Halifax County on July 1, 1995.

Hog Killing on Milton Puryear Place, Dennison, Halifax County, Marion Post Wolcott, 1939

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Halifax County, Virginia

* Official site of Halifax County & South Boston, Virginia

* History of Halifax County and South Boston, Virginia

* Halifax County South Boston Public Library System

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* Halifax County, Virginia-southeast

The company holds advertising rights to exterior advertising displays at Halifax, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary International Airports.

* Currently holds the all time record in penalty minutes ( 420 ) for the Halifax Mooseheads of the QMJHL.

A number of songs are commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic contests, including the Carmina Dalhousiana, which was first created in Halifax in 1882.

In neighboring Nova Scotia a number of former New England residents objected, but recent British immigrants and London-oriented business interests based in Halifax, the provincial capital were more influential.

Air Canada still uses the flight number 143, but the route is now St. John's — Halifax — Ottawa — Edmonton using an Embraer 190 aircraft.

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.

In 2007 Halifax Estate Agents ranked the Borough of Wokingham as the number one place to live in the United Kingdom.

A number of branch lines were opened in the 1870s, including Bourne to Sleaford in 1870, Wood Green to Enfield in 1871, Finchley to High Barnet in 1872, Highgate to Alexandra Palace and Wainfleet to Skegness in 1873, Ossett to Dewsbury in 1874, Bradford to Shipley and Sedgebrook to Barkston in 1875, Newark to Bottesford and the Pudsey Greenside branch in 1878, and finally the Queensbury to Ovenden line in 1879, which completed a new route from Bradford to Halifax.

Initially there were five in number: Bradford, Leeds, Huddersfield, Halifax, and Sheffield.

" While many Lancaster B. IIs had retained the FN64 ventral turret, a small number of Halifax and Lancaster bombers were unofficially fitted with a single machine gun installation in either a ventral turret or a makeshift port directly under the mid-upper gunner station.

A key factor was to find a site near Halifax with a minimal number of days per year when fog would affect airport operation.

The Canadian Army has a number of Regular Force professional brass-reed bands commanded by Land Force Atlantic Area: The Royal Canadian Regiment Band in Gagetown, New Brunswick ; 1st Battalion, Royal Newfoundland Regiment in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador ; 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, RCA Artillery Saint John, New Brunswick ; 8th Canadian Hussars ( Princess Louise's ) in Moncton, New Brunswick ; Halifax Military District in Halifax Regional Municipality ; The Prince Edward Island Regiment ( RCAC ) in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

In 1763, he signed the general warrant for the " authors, printers and publishers " of The North Briton number 45, under which John Wilkes and 48 others were arrested, and for which, six years later, the courts of law made Halifax pay damages.

Until the early 1980s CBC had a number of orchestras located in Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax but due to federal government budget cuts they were eliminated and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra was promoted to national status.

There was a strong possibility of Hednesford moving back to the Southern League Premier Division for the 2008 – 09 season, but Halifax Town's financial problems saw a number of non-league sides revived, leaving the Pitmen with the prospect of Northern Premier League football for the forthcoming campaign.

They included the personal testimony of elders and representatives from a number of groups, among them the Halifax Redress Committee ; the British Columbia Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses and Descendants ; ACCESS ; the Ontario Coalition of Head Tax Payers and Families ; the CCNC ; the Edmonton Redress Committee of the Chinese Canadian Historical Association of Alberta ; and the National Redress Alliance.

Asper's stations ( including CKVU-TV in Vancouver, Saskatchewan stations CFRE-TV / Regina and CFSK-TV / Saskatoon, CKND-TV in Winnipeg and CIHF-TV in Halifax ) formed a mini-network for a number of years that was known as the Canwest Global System, which eventually evolved into the present-day Global and all of the stations began using the " Global " brand ( in addition to CIII ) in 1997.

Superheating of the boiler was first applied to number 3702, Halifax in June 1910 whereas top feed was introduced in 1912 and new cast iron chimneys in 1921.

Janet is a renowned historian of the Halifax Explosion and the author of a number of books on the subject.

New buses were purchased in large numbers at the outset, with Leyland Atlanteans and Fleetlines being bodied by Charles H. Roe of Leeds to a specific design for the PTE, with most of the Fleetlines going to Halifax, though a small number of Fleetlines were bodied by Northern Counties.

Over a century later a number of commercial brewers thrived, including some that became the staple of the Canadian industry: John Molson founded a brewery in Montreal in 1786, Alexander Keith in Halifax in 1820, Thomas Carling in London in 1840, John Kinder Labatt in 1847, also in London, Susannah Oland in Halifax in 1867, and Eugene O ' Keefe in Toronto in 1891.

The Dalhousie Arts Centre, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, contains a number of theatres, an art gallery, classrooms, and a sculpture garden.

It is presently the largest Canadian Forces Base in terms of the number of posted personnel and is formed from an amalgamation of military properties situated around the strategic Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia.