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The Halifax Central Library is a public library in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located on the corner of Spring Garden Road and Queen Street in Downtown Halifax. It serves as the flagship library of the Halifax Public Libraries, replacing the Spring Garden Road Memorial Library. [1]
It comprises Spring Garden Road, South Park Street, and a number of smaller side streets. The area is considered to be one of the trendiest areas in Halifax and is the busiest shopping district east of Quebec. Spring Garden Road is home to a number of pubs, coffee shops and boutiques, making it busy both day and night.
Halifax Public Libraries (HPL) is a Canadian public library system, serving residents of Halifax in Nova Scotia.It is the largest public library system in Nova Scotia, [3] with over 2.8 million visits to library branches and 172,520 active registered borrowers or 44% of the municipality's population. [4]
[tone] Downtown Halifax is similar to other central business districts where it has many varied crosswalks, hills, paths, and sidewalks. Spring Garden Road is a street approximately 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in total-length that goes in an east-west direction from Barrington Street-to-Robie Street.
Park Lane is located on Spring Garden Road in Halifax. Parking is available at a parking garage attached to the shopping centre. Park Lane was built in 1988, and opened that same year. [3] A 1999 paper in the Canadian Journal of Urban Research called it the "premier fashion mall" in the city. [3]
The Halifax Public Gardens are Victorian-era public gardens formally established in 1867, the year of Canadian Confederation.The gardens are located in the Halifax, Nova Scotia on the Halifax Peninsula near the popular shopping district of Spring Garden Road and opposite Victoria Park.
Nova Scotia Supreme Court sat for the first time in the newly built Halifax County courthouse on Spring Garden Road in October 1860 and continued using it until 1960 when the building temporarily became the Provincial Library and then the home of the Provincial Court in 1971. The most recent renovations to the building were completed in 1985.
Fort Charlotte, together with associated caponiers and outbuildings, form part of original Halifax Defence Complex; access to Georges Island is restricted 1869 (completed) Halifax Public Gardens bandstand Spring Garden Road at South Park Street Henry Busch-designed bandstand centres extensive Victorian-era public gardens, established 1867 1874-1879