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Strategically located as North America's first inbound and last outbound gateway, the port of Halifax is a naturally deep, wide, ice-free harbour with minimal tides and is two days closer to Europe and one day closer to Southeast Asia (via the Suez Canal) than any other North American East Coast port.
The harbour ferries are utilized by over 3,000 commuters daily. [5] Both routes operate using two vessels each on a fifteen-minute schedule during peak hours, and using one vessel each on a thirty-minute schedule off-peak. Ferry that runs between Dartmouth and Halifax in Nova Scotia. It is docked at the ferry terminal in downtown Dartmouth.
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Halifax Harbour has been polluted as a result of two centuries of direct raw sewage discharge into its waters. Health concerns in the 1990s caused the shut-down of all harbour beaches. The Harbour Solutions project, initiated in the year 2000, was a CA$400 million project which attempted to remediate the area, with limited success.
Halifax Tides FC is a professional women's soccer club based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It will compete in the Northern Super League , in the highest level of the Canadian soccer league system , and is one of two professional soccer clubs in Atlantic Canada , alongside the HFX Wanderers of the men's Canadian Premier League .
Cole Harbour Place is the main recreation center in Cole Harbour offering swimming and aquatics, skating, fitness classes, and a gym. Housed within Cole Harbour Place is a branch of the Halifax Public Libraries- offering for loan books, movies, and reference materials. Many special interest classes are held within the library space. [4]
Advocate Harbour (2011 pop.: 826) [1] is a rural community located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The community is situated on Route 209 and has a small well-protected fishing harbour opening on the Bay of Fundy; the harbour dries at low tide. [2] The community's economy is tied to the seasonal industries of fishing and tourism.
The airport is named in honour of Robert Stanfield, the 17th Premier of Nova Scotia and former leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The airport, owned by Transport Canada since it opened in 1960, has been operated since 2000 by the Halifax International Airport Authority (HIAA).