* 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.

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.

* Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

In addition to Halifax Regional Municipality's urban core, the town of Truro and all of rural Colchester County as well as the western part of Pictou County experienced property damage and power outages from falling trees ; numerous barns and other agricultural buildings were damaged east of the storm's path, including a replica of the Hector in Pictou Harbour.

Halifax enjoys a 4 Season Climate, with moderately hot and humid Summers, and cool Winters.

Writing to Baldwin on the subject of the conversation between Karl Burckhardt ( the League of Nations ' Commissioner of Danzig ) and Hitler, Halifax said: " Nationalism and Racialism is a powerful force but I can't feel that it's either unnatural or immoral !.

Wentworth assisted and drew support from powerful Halifax merchants but lost support elsewhere.

She had a large circle of friends including members of the powerful Liberal Women's societies of Halifax.

Halifax owed to him his interest in the navy and his grasp of the necessity to a country of a powerful maritime force.

Juan made landfall between Shad Bay and Prospect in the Halifax Regional Municipality early on September 29 as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 100 mph ( 162 km / h ).

Due to its fast forward motion, Juan had little time to weaken over significantly colder waters before making landfall between Shad Bay and Prospect ( near Halifax ) on September 29 with winds of 100 mph ( 160 km / h ).

The urban concentration surrounding Halifax Harbour bore the brunt of the highest sustained winds and strongest wind gusts during the storm ; some unofficial estimates have placed gusts as high as 145 mph ( 230 km / h ).

The now-extratropical system recurved to the northeast and struck Nova Scotia with sustained winds of, crossing just north of Halifax and retained hurricane-force winds into Newfoundland.

Sustained winds reached at Yarmouth and at Halifax.

The winds blew down trees in the Halifax area, and there were power outages reported there and in Antigonish.

In 2000, Halifax established Intelligent Finance, a telephone and internet based bank.

Reportedly upon leaving the ICR telegraph / dispatching office, Coleman realized suddenly that at least two trains carrying passengers were on their way to the Richmond station and returned to the station's telegraph office to send a brief warning message along the rail line as far as Truro to stop trains inbound for Halifax.

Coleman's telegraph key, watch, and pen are on display in the Halifax Explosion exhibit at Halifax's Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

By the time they reached Halifax the Emerald had lost her ships boats, rafts and various depth charges, wires, shackles and other valuable equipment, not to mention her spotter plane, a Fairey Seafox.

However, some cities such as Quebec City, Ottawa, and Halifax have fewer high-rise buildings due to several factors: a focus on historic preservation, height restrictions, and lower growth rates.

Due to the development of plantations worked by slave labor in the antebellum years, by the 1870s, Halifax and Edgecombe counties were among several in the northeast with a majority-black population.

Bus services in the town are primarily operated by First Group plc, and operate to many local towns and villages, most frequently to Halifax ( several services at 10-minute intervals ), Burnley ( 592 ) and Rochdale ( 590 ).

Although in some respects ( such as crew survivability ) better than the Lancaster, the Halifax suffered in terms of altitude performance and was redeployed toward the end of the war as a heavy transoport and glider tug, with several variants being specifically built as such, including the HP. 70 Halton.

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.

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.

Thomas Ainslie, collector of the Port of Quebec, acknowledged from Halifax the receipt of his portrait, which " gives me great Satisfaction ", and advised the artist to visit Nova Scotia " where there are several people who would be glad to employ You.

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 ).

It's location provides the museum with several piers and boatsheds, as well as a strategic view of the Halifax Harbour looking seaward towards the Harbourmaster office and Georges Island and across to Dartmouth.

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

Halifax, the provincial capital, has several major attractions, such as the Pier 21 museum, Citadel Hill, and the Public Gardens.

Downtown Halifax is also the location of several major hotels.

Fagundes commemorative beside Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia. João Álvares Fagundes ( born c. 1460, Kingdom of Portugal, died 1522, Kingdom of Portugal ), an explorer and ship owner from Viana do Castelo in Northern Portugal, organized several expeditions to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia around 1520-1521.

** The plan considers several land and sea options for the attack and concludes that a landing at St. Margarets Bay, a then undeveloped bay near Halifax, would be superior to a direct assault via the longer overland route.

He received several grants from Canada, Italy and France for his innovative work as composer-performer of period music and as founding-director of the Festivals: Rendez-vous con Hendrik Bouman ( Italy ) 1992, Halifax 1749 Baroque ( Canada ) 1999, Baroque by the Sea ( Maritimes Canada ) 1999 & 2005, the Baroque SaMuse Concert Series ( Montréal, Canada ) 2006-2007, as well as a sponsorship from Berkeley Homes, United Kingdom for his Baroque by the Sea Concert Series ( Sussex, United Kingdom ) 2009 ; concert series predominantly dedicated to the performance of his baroque and classical compositions, period improvisations, as well as historical repertoire and his transcriptions thereof.

Stranded travellers were received at several CF bases and stations, including Goose Bay, Gander and Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Halifax, Shearwater and Aldershot, Nova Scotia.

The Cape Breton Regional Municipality Act was implemented and the CBRM was created on August 1, 1995, whereas the amalgamation in Halifax County didn't take place until April 1, 1996, and Queens County several years later.

Wharves on the Halifax and Darmouth waterfront suffered large amounts of damage and several railcars were washed into the harbour at the Dartmouth railway yard ; one of the tracks for the double-track main line was washed out in several places along the Bedford Basin near Millview.

The next year, several journalists left The Halifax Daily News over similar conflicts, and ten journalists at The Regina Leader-Post were reprimanded or suspended after a byline strike to protest censorship of coverage of a speech in Regina by Toronto Star columnist and Canwest critic Haroon Siddiqui.

One of the Halifax tugs crashed into a mountain, killing all seven aboard ; its glider was able to cast off, but crashed nearby, resulting in several casualties.

The Halifax V9977, which crashed in June 1942, killing several radar engineers

The park was the site of several small farms during the early settlement of Halifax.