* 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

After Newcastle he moved to Leeds and Halifax where he was the first organist at St John the Baptist church.

This route provides convenient well-supported landings in Canada near Halifax ( Nova Scotia ), Moncton ( New Brunswick ), or St. John's ( Newfoundland and Labrador ), and in Iceland, Belfast ( Northern Ireland ) or Dublin ( Ireland ).

After graduating from St. Francis Xavier with a degree in political science in 1959, Mulroney at first pursued a law degree from Dalhousie Law School in Halifax.

Several Canadian cities have LETS groups, including Kitchener-Waterloo, Niagara, and Peterborough in Ontario, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and St. John's Newfoundland.

While British American, the other pioneer transatlantic steamship company did not submit a tender, the St. George Steam Packet Company, owner of the Sirius, bid £ 45, 000 for a monthly Cork-Halifax service and £ 65, 000 for a monthly Cork – Halifax – New York service.

In 1986, a Chair of Irish Studies was set up in his honour at St. Mary's University, Halifax.

In October 2010 the Dewsbury Revival Centre opened, based the refurbished former St. Mark's Church on Halifax Road, Dewsbury.

St. Stephen's Church was built on Copley Lane, but just over the river in Greetland, as the rector of Halifax did not want it built in his parish.

The Parish Church of St. John the Baptist in Halifax, West Yorkshire was elevated to Minster Status in November 2009.

When St. Mary's Township was established in 1818 it was partly in Sydney County and partly in Halifax County.

In 1822 that part of St. Mary's Township which had been in Halifax County was annexed to the County of Sydney.

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

On 2 September 1998, Swissair Flight 111 crashed into St. Margaret's Bay, not far from Halifax, Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people on board.

Manning was born in St. John, New Brunswick and attended Kings College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

St. Louis Memorial, Pier 21 – Halifax, Canada

It lost large pieces of its territory with the formation of the Dioceses of Halifax and Kingston in 1817, the Diocese of Charlottetown in 1829, the Diocese of St. Boniface in 1844 and the Diocese of Montréal in 1852.

After her father had gone bankrupt in an attempt to invest in Halifax, Canada, she married the rich brewer Henry Thrale on 11 October 1763, at St. Anne's Chapel, Soho, London.

* Gloucester RFC, Halifax RLFC, Hawick RFC, Salford RLFC, St Helens RLFC, Wakefield Trinity RLFC and Widnes RLFC all established in 1873.

Tens of millions of lives would be lost as the cities and / or towns of St. John's, Halifax, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D. C., Miami, Havana, and many other cities on the Atlantic coast in Europe, South America and Africa.

Ritchie died at his estate in the Northwest Arm of Halifax and is buried at St. John's Cemetery.

The Riverhead Centre development caused some controversy at the time as it followed the 1960s trend of replacing old architecture with new ; in this case it involved the wholesale demolition of much of the old town centre including the historic Bull Ring ( which is now where Wilkinson's, the Halifax Bank and the St James Hotel are based ) and streets going back many centuries including Flottergate ( located at the present day entrance to Freshney Place between British Home Stores and the market ), Brewery Street ( located at the present day entrance to Freshney Place between the branch of Barclays Bank and the offices of the Cheltenham and Gloucester ) and East St Mary's Gate ( no trace remains ).

The City of Halifax named a street at the top of Fairview between Melrose and Adelaide in honor of Gesner in Halifax, formally the street was named Dunbrack ST, The completion of the Dunbrack Street / North West Arm Drive connectors with the Highway 102 freeway during the 1980s required a remaming of the original Dunbrack St.

* 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* Halifax, England, United Kingdom ; since 1979.

Acadia University is located in the town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, approximately 100 kilometres northwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia the provincial capital.

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

Many individuals who have made significant contributions to Acadia University, including the first president John Pryor, were members of the First Baptist Church Halifax congregation.

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.

" Eastern Coyote: Story of Its Success ", Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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

The founding of Halifax led to Father Le Loutre's War.

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 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 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 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.

However most of the gains went to the urban elite class, especially businessmen and financiers living in Halifax.

The larger ships were also less likely to call on the smaller population centres such as Saint John and Halifax, preferring to travel to cities like New York and Montreal.

Even the Cunard Line, founded by Haligonian Samuel Cunard, stopped making more than a single ceremonial voyage to Halifax each year.

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.