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In 2018, after several public protests at the site, the statue and pedestal were removed on order of the Halifax Regional Council, citing safety concerns and concerns about the statue being vandalized and placed in storage. In 2021, the park was renamed "Peace and Friendship Park". [2]
In December 2022, Halifax council voted in favour of the new name, which took effect in October 2023. [45] In 2021, Cornwallis Park in Halifax was renamed "Peace and Friendship Park" by the Regional Municipality of Halifax. [46] Bridgewater renamed Cornwallis Street to Crescent Street in 2022. [47]
Governor Jonathan Belcher by John Singleton Copley.Belcher with the Nova Scotia Council created the Halifax Treaties of 1760–61.. The Peace and Friendship Treaties were a series of written documents (or, treaties) that Britain signed bearing the Authority of Great Britain between 1725 and 1779 with various Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), Abenaki, Penobscot, and Passamaquoddy peoples (i.e ...
The Halifax Peninsula creates The Narrows, a constriction of Halifax Harbour to its east. The peninsula measures approximately 3.3 km (2.1 mi) at its widest and approximately 7.5 km (4.7 mi) at its longest, the peninsula's topography is relatively flat near the isthmus where Chebucto Field, an aerodrome that preceded Halifax Stanfield ...
Downtown Halifax is the financial centre of the urban area of Halifax, the Province of Nova Scotia, and the region of Atlantic Canada. The Bank of Canada has one of its five Canadian regional offices located within the central business district, and all Big Five Canadian banks have major operations within the area.
"Treaty Texts - 1752 Peace and Friendship Treaty". Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. March 7, 2016. Akins, Thomas B., ed. (1869). "Council Minutes Related to the Treaty". Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia: Pub. Under a Resolution of the House of Assembly Passed March 15, 1865. Halifax: Charles Annand. p. 671.
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This article is a list of historic places in Halifax, Nova Scotia listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, all of which are designated as historic places either locally, provincially, federally or by more than one level of government. References to municipalities in the chart are to communities located within Halifax.