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Short served on HMS Prince of Orange from 1759 to 1761, [6] and he was directed to make drawings, to record the appearance of principal Quebec buildings, following its capture. [7] Also in 1759, while his ship was moored in Halifax, he sketched the then only ten-year-old town. [8]
Thomas Nickleson Jeffery (1782 – October 21, 1847) was a colonial official and politician in Nova Scotia.. He was born in Dorset, England.In 1798 he became an audit clerk in London and was, due to assistance from William Pitt the Younger, appointed collector of customs in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Zouberbuhler attended council meetings sporadically in the first two years of his appointment, and less frequently in the subsequent eight years. He was one of six appointments to the Council between 1760 and 1830 who did not reside in Halifax. [21] During this time, Zouberbuhler continued his business in the Lunenburg timber trade.
Halifax (previously known as Halifax Building Society and colloquially known as The Halifax) is a British banking brand operating as a trading division of Bank of Scotland, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group. It is named after the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, where it was founded as a building society in 1853.
Halifax Regional Council (French: Conseil régional d'Halifax) is the governing body of Halifax, known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM).Halifax is governed by a mayor-council system, where councillors are elected from sixteen geographic districts though a first-past-the-post system and the mayor is elected via a municipality-wide first-past-the-post vote.
Halifax City Hall is the home of municipal government in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Designed by architect Edward Elliot, and constructed for the City of Halifax between 1887 and 1890, it is one of the oldest and largest public buildings in Nova Scotia. The property was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1997.
Before his appointment, he served as a Canadian politician, notably as the Mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality (2012-2024) and as a Liberal member of Parliament for the riding of Dartmouth—Cole Harbour from (2004-2011).
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s.