In 1940, Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister, though personally George would have preferred to appoint Lord Halifax.

Mourning the death of his middle son in action in 1942, Halifax wearied of Washington and asked Anthony Eden to have him replaced, but he stayed until 1946, witnessing the transition to Harry S. Truman and Clement Attlee.

Formed as the 2nd Canadian Army Tank Brigade on 26 January 1942, this formation consisted of the 24th Army Tank Battalion ( Les Voltigeurs de Québec ) ( replaced in June 1942 by the 20th Army Tank Regiment ( 16 / 22 Saskatchewan Horse )), 23rd Army Tank Battalion ( The Halifax Rifles ), and the 26th Army Tank Battalion ( The Grey and Simcoe Foresters ).

Just under two months later, Patterson was sacked after a poor run of form, and was replaced by former Halifax Town manager Chris Wilder.

In 1844 Camp Hill Cemetery on Robie Street in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada replaced the city's first cemetery known as the Old Burying Ground that had been established almost 100 years earlier in 1749.

The squadron had a strength of approximately 20 aircraft and initially used the twin engined Armstrong Whitworth Whitley medium bomber although this was quickly replaced by the Handley Page Halifax four engined heavy bomber which was being introduced.

In 2000, its local newscast, " First Edition ", was cancelled and replaced with Canada Now, anchored in Halifax by Norma Lee MacLeod.

The team was replaced in Halifax by the Nova Scotia Oilers, an affiliate of the Edmonton Oilers and subsequently the Halifax Citadels, an affiliate of the Quebec Nordiques.

As a result of the closedown, some cable systems in Newfoundland and Labrador owned by EastLink replaced CBNT with CBHT-DT Halifax, due to what EastLink claimed were " technical issues " involving CBNT.

The rail corridor was purchased by the Halifax Regional Municipality and by October 2009, rails at level crossings were lifted and paved over and by September 2010, all the remaining track of the CN Chester Spur had been removed and replaced by a rail trail ( paved recreational pathway ).

The Indie Zine and Label Fair, which had been growing since 1996, was replaced in 2006 by three events: the # POPular Conference, a diy and independent music focused conference ; Halifax Zine Fair, the Atlantic Canada edition of the zine fair and independent publishing event curated by Broken Pencil Magazine ; and a series of art gallery exhibitions stage around town.

Although Halifax Town went into liquidation in the summer of 2008, newly formed FC Halifax Town replaced them 3 levels below Halifax Town's position when they dissolved.

A shaky start to the 2001 – 02 season, which saw errors in the games against Halifax Town, Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United, caused Marriott to be replaced by Paul Pettinger in the Lincoln goal.

The post had not been held by a peer since Lord Halifax in 1938 – 40 ; Eden had wished to appoint Salisbury in 1955, but concluded that it would be unacceptable to the Commons.

* February 1938-Lord Halifax succeeds Eden as Foreign Secretary.

Rocky Mount was within twenty-five miles of the spot where plans for the first Methodist school in America had been discussed in 1780: it was in the home of the Reverend John Dickens near Eden church in Halifax County that Bishop Asbury raised the matter.

Edward Wood MP, better known as the future Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, rejected force and urged the British government to make an offer to the Irish " conceived on the most generous lines ".

Though the French and the Italians were serious about Mussolini's peace plan, which called for an immediate ceasefire and a four-power conference à la Munich to consider Poland's borders, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax stated that unless the Germans withdrew from Poland immediately, then Britain would not attend the proposed conference.

* March 20 – At an emergency meeting in London to deal with the Romanian crisis, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet suggests to Lord Halifax that the ideal state for saving Romania from a German attack is Poland.

German dictator Adolf Hitler told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax in 1937 that " one of his favourite films Lives of a Bengal Lancer, which he saw three times.

* Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ( 1881 – 1959 ), Foreign Secretary and Viceroy of India

In 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that British political cartoons, particularly those of Low's, were damaging Anglo-German relations.

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, ( 16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959 ), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s, during which he held several senior ministerial posts, most notably as Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1940.

Churchill retained Halifax as Foreign Secretary for nine months, but the two men had never enjoyed a close relationship.

The title was created for a fourth time in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1944 for E. F. L. Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax, the former Foreign Secretary and Viceroy of India.

Wood was the son of E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, statesman and Foreign Secretary.

Wood is the eldest son of Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, son of E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Viceroy of India and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

No war will ever be needed against either England or France In November 1938, when Sir Nevile Henderson, the British Ambassador to Germany went on sick leave, the acting heads of the Embassy in Berlin sent a series of reports to the Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax intended to effect a change in British policy towards Germany.

* Foreign Secretary: Viscount Halifax ( Cons )

* Foreign Secretary: Lord Halifax ( Conservative )

At a meeting with Lord Halifax on 20 – 21 May 1939 in Geneva, Daladier, Bonnet and Saint-Legér pressured the British Foreign Secretary repeatedly for a " grand alliance " as the only way of stopping another world war.

Most of Maclean's cables published by the US Government in 1999 deal with routine messages between Lord Halifax, British ambassador in Washington and the Foreign Office in London or copies of reports from the British ambassador in Moscow Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr to London.

Sinclair was asked in December 1938 to prepare a dossier on Adolf Hitler, for the attention of Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, and Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister.

Dawson was also a lifelong friend and dining companion of Edward Wood, later Lord Halifax, who was Foreign Secretary in the period 1938-1940.

The British Foreign Minister, Lord Halifax, was informed of the decision on 24 May 1940 ; the Foreign Ministry were reluctant but had to accept it.

The War Cabinet included Chamberlain, Hoare, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, Churchill, Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister for Coordination of Defence Lord Chatfield, Lord Hankey ( as Minister without Portfolio ) and Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha.

It appears that a frank conversation with his pugnacious Permanent Secretary, Sir Alexander Cadogan brought Halifax to the sharp realisation that the road to appeasement had taken Britain into a series of concessions that were unwise, and that were unlikely to secure the necessary pacification of Germany.

In London, he met with George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British Secretary of State for the Southern Department.

Lord Birkenhead served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Halifax ( 1938 – 39 ), and as Lord-in-Waiting to King George VI ( 1938 – 40 and 1951 – 52 ) and Queen Elizabeth II ( 1952 – 55 ).

Secretary, Halifax Branch, Imperial Federation League ; Hon.

Born in Halifax, he was mayor of Halifax from 1861 to 1864 before entering provincial politics as a supporter of Canadian confederation in 1867 serving as Provincial Secretary in the Conservative cabinet of Hiram Blanchard but lost his seat in the fall 1867 election that defeated the government.