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Halifax has donated many fir trees to the annual Hakodate Christmas Fantasy festival. [120] [121] Campeche, Mexico (1999). Campeche was chosen because, like Halifax, it is "a capital of a state" and is "a city of similar size to Halifax on or near the coast having rich historical tradition". [122] Norfolk, Virginia, United States (2006 ...
Unlike policing services, Halifax Fire and Emergency (HRFE) is an amalgamation of all fire departments in Halifax County. This created some controversy in rural areas where predominantly volunteer fire companies were being stripped of equipment and trucks which local communities had fund-raised for during the pre-amalgamation period; this equipment was being relocated to service the urban core.
The Halifax Water Company, a private firm under contract to the City of Halifax built a gravity-fed main to deliver water to fire hydrants, public fountains and private customers in downtown Halifax from the Chain Lakes and Long Lake system near the city. It went into full operation in 1848 and was purchased by the City from the private company ...
The Citizens' Free Library was moved from place to place in the city for many years until 1890 when it was given a permanent home on the second floor of the then new City Hall. The Library closed in 1949 reopening as a part of the new Halifax Memorial Library on Spring Garden Road at Grafton Street in 1950, though the collection moved in 2014 ...
On 21 June 1749, the Town of Halifax was founded. Europeans began to colonize the area, and sometime between 1841 and 1842, Halifax was granted city status. Between 1841 and 1842 and 1969, Halifax expanded to become the entire Halifax Peninsula.
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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.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, the capital city of the province Downtown Halifax; Halifax Peninsula, part of the core of the municipality; Mainland Halifax, a region of the municipality; Halifax County, Nova Scotia, the county dissolved into the regional municipality in 1996; Halifax (federal electoral district), a federal electoral district