The Canadian Halifax Shipyards stood in for the Sevmash shipyard of northern Russia.

* Halifax Shipyards

* MV Confederation ( 1975-1993 ), built for Government of Canada by Halifax Shipyards, Halifax in 1962 where she was operated by CN from Borden, Prince Edward Island to Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick.

Roe Canada subsidiaries including the Canadian Car and Foundry as well as the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation ( DOSCO ) conglomerate, which included various steel mills, coal mines, manufacturing plants, and Halifax Shipyards.

Shipyards in Liverpool and Shelburne lent some traffic, as did various saw mills and logging operations at locations between Yarmouth and Halifax and between Bridgewater and Middleton / Bridgetown and New Germany to Caledonia.

The Granville Street Baptist Church ( now First Baptist Church ( Halifax )) was an instrumental and determining factor in the founding of the University.

The establishment of the bank was devised by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1694, to the plan which had been proposed by William Paterson three years before, but had not been acted upon.

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

Carrington argued that a warrant from a Government minister, the Earl of Halifax was valid authority, even though there was no statutory provision or court order for it.

Conservatives typically see Richard Hooker as the founding father of conservatism, the Marquess of Halifax as important for his pragmatism, David Hume articulated conservative mistrust of rationalism in politics, and Edmund Burke was the leading early theorist.

There is a debate in the historiography, because Hooker lived too early, Halifax did not belong to any party, Hume was not involved in politics, and Burke was a Whig.

In 1749, to counter the rising threat of Louisbourg, Halifax was founded and the Royal Navy established a major naval base and citadel.

The fort was partially overrun after a month-long siege, but the attackers were ultimately repelled after the arrival of British reinforcements from Halifax.

The most significant incident from this war which occurred in the Maritimes was the British capture and detention of the American frigate USS Chesapeake in Halifax.

Although an amphibious invasion was never in question, blockading by Union naval forces was common, particularly at Halifax, where Confederate navy ships sought refuge and reprovisioning.

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 carnage resulted in Schrader and Earnhardt, Jr. rushing to Earnhardt, Sr. Earnhardt was extricated from his car and taken to Halifax Medical Center.

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 college was allowed to falter however after Ramsay left Halifax shortly after its establishment to serve as the Governor General of British North America.

Through a grant from the Carnegie Foundation however, King's College was able to relocate to Halifax and entered into a partnership with Dalhousie University which continues to this day.

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 August 1776, Allen and other prisoners were temporarily put ashore in Halifax, owing to extremely poor conditions aboard ship ; due to food scarcity, both crew and prisoners were on short rations, and scurvy was rampant.

This action was somewhat surprising, as Levi had not only attempted to purchase Ethan's release while he was in Halifax, but he had also traveled to New York while Ethan was on parole there, and furnished him with goods and money.

Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax beginning in September 1838, when she was twenty.

Based on Haliburton's writings, there have been claims that modern hockey originated in Windsor, Nova Scotia, by King's College students and was named after an individual, as in “ Colonel Hockey's game .” Others claim that the origins of hockey come from games played in the area of Dartmouth and Halifax in Nova Scotia.

This included the conversion of Handley Page Halifax bombers into freighters, six of which were sold to Bond Air Services, an early post-war independent British airline.

It was owned by The New York Times Company from 1979 until 2011, when it sold the newspaper, along with the rest of its regional newspapers, to Halifax Media Group.

On 16 October 2009, Halifax Estate Agency was sold to LSL Properties for a fee of £ 1.

Dulcie Conrad sold her share of the Halifax edition of Frank in the mid-1990s to Bentley and Watkins.

Lord Orford speaks slightingly of Halifax, and says he and his mistress, Mary Anne Faulkner, had sold every employment in his gift.

In April 2012, the Halifax Mooseheads sold out game 6 of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League semifinals in 20 minutes, setting another attendance mark for the Metro Centre.

Its Florida and North Carolina papers were sold to Halifax Media Group.

The 1949 Challenge Cup final was sold out for first time as 95, 050 spectators saw Bradford beat Halifax.

The 1949 Challenge Cup final was sold out for first time as 95, 050 spectators saw Bradford Northern beat Halifax.

Halifax sold Thrum Hall for £ 1. 5 million to Asda for a supermarket development in 1998, and moved across town to their present home, the Shay Stadium, which they share with FC Halifax Town.

In 1863 the Somerleyton estate was sold to Sir Francis Crossley of Halifax, West Yorkshire who, like Peto, was a philanthropist, a carpet manufacturer, and a Member of Parliament.

The Halifax to Truro line remains part of CN, however the rest of the Eastern Line from Truro to Pictou was sold by CN in 1993 to the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway as part of CN's sale of the entire Truro to Sydney line.

No reason was given as to why Media General was retaining the Tribune, but there was speculation that the paper would be sold to another party, such as Halifax Media Group ( which owns several papers in Florida ) or a completely different owner, or that the paper would merge with the Tampa Bay Times.

In 1998, the town's famous Rugby League Club, Halifax RLFC sold their historic home ground Thrum Hall, for £ 1. 5 million to the retail chain Asda ( now part of the Wal-Mart group ) and moved their base to the Shay.

During the 1950s, JDI took control of a shipyard in Saint John and started several trucking companies and heavy industry companies like Irving Equipment to satisfy the growing needs of the company. A Kent store in Halifax Regional Municipality | Halifax, Nova Scotia.

* Irving Shipbuilding operates the Halifax Shipyard, a medium-sized vessel construction and repair yard.