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Halifax
K'jipuktuk (Mi'kmaq)
Coat of arms
Motto(s):
Location in Canada
Country Canada
Province Nova Scotia
Government
• Type Regional municipality
• Mayor Mike Savage
• Governing body Halifax Regional Council
• MPs
List of MPs[show]
• MLAs
List of MLAs[show]
Area
(2016)[1][2]
• Land 5,490.35 km2(2,119.84 sq mi)
• Urban 234.72 km2 (90.63 sq mi)
• Metro 5,496.31 km2(2,122.14 sq mi)
Population
(2016)[1]
• Provincial capital 403,131 (14th)
municipality
• Density 73.4/km2 (190/sq mi)
• Urban 316,701
• Urban density 1,349.3/km2 (3,495/sq mi)
• Metro 403,390 (13th)
• Metro density 73.4/km2 (190/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016 3.3%
• Census ranking 14 of 5,162
Demonym(s) Haligonian
Website www.halifax.ca
Halifax, formally known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the
Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It had a population of 403,131 in 2016, with 316,701 in
the urban area centred on Halifax Harbour.[3][4] The regional municipality consists of four former
municipalities that were amalgamated in 1996: Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, and Halifax County.
Halifax is a major economic centre in Atlantic Canada with a large concentration of government
services and private sector companies. Major employers and economic generators include
the Department of National Defence, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, the Halifax
Shipyard, various levels of government, and the Port of Halifax.
Agriculture, fishing, mining, forestry and natural gas extraction are major resource industries
found in the rural areas of the municipality.
Contents
1History
2Geography
o 2.1Topography
o 2.2Climate
3Cityscape and neighbourhoods
o 3.1Architecture
o 3.2Public spaces
o 3.3Rural area
o 3.4Urban area
4Culture
o 4.1Tourism
o 4.2Sports
o 4.3Media
o 4.4Religion
5Demographics
o 5.1Ethnic origins
o 5.2Religious belief
6Economy
7Government
8Education
9Transportation
10Sister cities
11Notable Haligonians
12See also
13Notes
14References
15Further reading
16External links
History[edit]
Main articles: History of the Halifax Regional Municipality; History of Halifax (former city); History
of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Bedford, Nova Scotia; and Halifax County, Nova Scotia
Halifax is located within the traditional ancestral lands of the Mi'kmaq indigenous peoples, known
as Mi'kma'ki.[5] The Mi'kmaq have resided in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island since prior to European landings in North America in the 1400s and 1500s to set up
fisheries. The Mi'kmaq name for Halifax is K'jipuktuk, pronounced "che-book-took".[6]
Wooden palisade erected along Dartmouth in response to the raid on Dartmouth, opposite side of the
harbour from the Great Pontack, during Father Le Loutre's War, 1759.
The first permanent European settlement in the region was on the Halifax Peninsula. The
establishment of the Town of Halifax, named after the 2nd Earl of Halifax, in 1749 led to the
colonial capital being transferred from Annapolis Royal.
The establishment of Halifax marked the beginning of Father Le Loutre's War. The war began
when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports and a sloop of war on
June 21, 1749.[7]By unilaterally establishing Halifax, the British were violating earlier treaties with
the Mi'kmaq (1726), which were signed after Father Rale's War.[8] Cornwallis brought along 1,176
settlers and their families. To guard against Mi'kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new
Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax (Citadel Hill) (1749), Bedford
(Fort Sackville) (1749), Dartmouth (1750), and Lawrencetown (1754), all areas within the
modern-day Regional Municipality. St. Margaret's Bay was first settled by French-
speaking Foreign Protestants at French Village, Nova Scotia who migrated from Lunenburg,
Nova Scotia during the American Revolution.
December 1917 saw one of the greatest disasters in Canadian history, when the SS Mont-Blanc,
a French cargo ship carrying munitions, collided with the Belgian Relief vessel SS Imo in "The
Narrows" between upper Halifax Harbour and Bedford Basin. The resulting explosion, the Halifax
Explosion, devastated the Richmond District of Halifax, killing approximately 2,000 people and
injuring nearly 9,000 others.[9] The blast was the largest artificial explosion before the
development of nuclear weapons.[10] Significant aid came from Boston, strengthening the bond
between the two coastal cities.
Aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, a maritime disaster that devastated the city in 1917.
The four municipalities in the Halifax urban area had been coordinating service delivery through
the Metropolitan Authority since the late 1970s, but remained independent towns and cities until
April 1, 1996, when the provincial government amalgamated all municipal governments
within Halifax County to create the Halifax Regional Municipality. The municipal boundary thus
now includes all of Halifax County except for several First Nation reserves.[11]
Since amalgamation, the region has officially been known as the Halifax Regional Municipality
(HRM), although "Halifax" has remained in common usage for brevity. On April 15, 2014, the
regional council approved the implementation of a new branding campaign for the region
developed by the local firm Revolve Marketing. The campaign would see the region referred to in
promotional materials simply as "Halifax", although "Halifax Regional Municipality" would remain
the region's official name. The proposed rebranding was met with mixed reaction from residents,
some of whom felt that the change would alienate other communities in the municipality through
a perception that the marketing scheme would focus on Metropolitan Halifax only, while others
expressed relief that the longer formal name would no longer be primary. Mayor Mike Savage
defended the decision, stating: "I'm a Westphal guy, I'm a Dartmouth man, but Halifax is my city,
we’re all part of Halifax. Why does that matter? Because when I go and travel on behalf of this
municipality, there isn’t a person out there who really cares what HRM means."[12][13][14]
Geography[edit]
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Unlike most municipalities with a sizeable metropolitan area, the Halifax Regional Municipality's
suburbs have been completely incorporated into the "central" municipality, often by referendum.
For example, the community of Spryfield, in the Mainland South area, voted to amalgamate with
Halifax in 1968. The most recent amalgamation, which brought the entirety of Halifax County into
the Municipality, has created a situation where a large "rural commutershed" area encompasses
almost half the municipality's landmass.
Topography[edit]
The coastline of Halifax from Duncan's Cove. The city has a significant length of coastline due to its heavy
indentation.
The Halifax Regional Municipality occupies an area of 5,577 km2 (2,153 sq mi),[15] which is
approximately 10% of the total land area of Nova Scotia. The land area of HRM is comparable in
size to the total land area of the province of Prince Edward Island, and measures approximately
165 km (103 mi) in length between its eastern and western-most extremities, excluding Sable
Island. The nearest point of land to Sable Island is not in HRM, but rather in
adjacent Guysborough County. However, Sable Island is considered part of District 7 of the
Halifax Regional Council.
The coastline is heavily indented, accounting for its length of approximately 400 km (250 mi),
with the northern boundary of the municipality usually being between 50–60 km (31–37 mi)
inland. The coast is mostly rock with small isolated sand beaches in sheltered bays. The largest
coastal features include St. Margarets Bay, Halifax Harbour/Bedford Basin, Cole
Harbour, Musquodoboit Harbour, Jeddore Harbour, Ship Harbour, Sheet Harbour, and Ecum
Secum Harbour. The municipality's topography spans from lush farmland in the Musquodoboit
Valley to rocky and heavily forested rolling hills. It includes a number of islands and peninsulas,
among them McNabs Island, Beaver Island, Melville Island, Deadman's Islandand Sable Island.
Climate[edit]
Halifax has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb), bordering on an oceanic climate, with
warm summers and relatively mild winters, which is due to Gulf Stream moderation.
The weather is usually milder in the winter or cooler in the summer than areas at similar latitudes
inland, with the temperature remaining (with occasional notable exceptions) between about
−8 °C (18 °F) and 24 °C (75 °F).[16] January is the coldest month, being the only month with a
high that is slightly below freezing at −0.1 °C (31.8 °F), while August is the warmest. The sea
heavily influences the climate of the area, causing significant seasonal lag in summer, with
August being significantly warmer than June and with September being the third mildest month in
terms of mean temperature.[17] The January mean is only 1.1 °C (2.0 °F) colder than the isotherm
for the oceanic climate.
Snowfall in Halifax is heavy during the winter, although snow cover is usually patchy owing to the frequent
freeze-thaw cycles.
Precipitation is high year-round. Winter features a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow with
frequent freeze-thaw cycles. Snowfall is heavy in winter, but snow cover is usually patchy owing
to the frequent freeze-thaw cycles, which melt accumulated snow. Some winters feature colder
temperatures and fewer freeze-thaw cycles; the most recent of which being the winter of 2014–
2015, which was the coldest, snowiest and stormiest in about a century. Spring is often wet and
cool and arrives much later than in areas of Canada at similar latitudes, due to cooler sea
temperatures. Summers are mild and pleasant, with hot and humid conditions very infrequent.
Warm, pleasant conditions often extend well into September, sometimes into mid-October.
Average monthly precipitation is highest from November to February due to intense late-fall to
winter storms migrating from the Northeastern U.S., and lowest in summer, with August being
the year's warmest and driest month on average. Halifax can sometimes receive hurricanes,
mostly between August and October. An example is when Hurricane Juan, a category 2 storm,
hit in September 2003 and caused considerable damage to the region. Hurricane Earl grazed the
coast as a category 1 storm in 2010. Atlantic sea surface temperatures have risen in recent
years, making Halifax and the coast of Nova Scotia somewhat more susceptible to hurricanes
than the area had been in the past.
The highest temperature ever recorded in the city of Halifax was 37.2 °C (99 °F) on July, 10
1912,[18] and the lowest temperature recorded was −29.4 °C (−21 °F) on February 18,
1922.[19] The March 2012 North American heat wave brought unusually high temperatures to the
city of Halifax. On March 22, the mercury climbed to 28.2 °C (82.8 °F) at the Halifax Windsor
Park weather station,[20] and 27.2 °C (81 °F) at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.[21] In spite of
the possibility of high temperatures, in a normal year there is only one day that goes above 30 °C
(86 °F).[22] Halifax also has a modest frost count by Canadian standards due to the maritime
influence, averaging 131 air frosts and 49 full days below freezing annually.[22] On average the
frost-free period is 182 days, ranging from May 1 to October 31.[22]
Urban, suburban, and rural divisions as defined by HRM planning department.[45] The majority of Halifax is
made up of rural areas.
Halifax is centred on the urban core and surrounded by areas of decreasing population density.
Rural areas lie to the east, west and north of the urban core. The Atlantic Ocean lies to the
south. Certain rural communities on the urban fringe function as suburban or exurban areas, with
the majority of those residents commuting to and working in the urban core.
Farther away, rural communities in the municipality function like any resource-based area in
Nova Scotia, being sparsely populated and their local economies developing around four major
resource industries: agriculture, in the Musquodoboit Valley, fishing, along the coast, mining, in
the Musquodoboit Valley[46] and in Moose River Gold Mines[47] and forestry, in most areas outside
the urban core. Also, the tourism industry is beginning to change how some rural communities in
Halifax function, particularly in communities such as Hubbards, Peggys Cove, with its notable
lighthouse[48] and Lawrencetown, with Lawrencetown Beach.[49] There are two other large
beaches along the coast, Martinique Beach, near Musquodoboit Harbour[50] and Taylor Head
Beach, located in Spry Bay, within the boundaries of Taylor Head Provincial Park.[51]
The northeastern area of the municipality, centred on Sheet Harbour and the Musquodoboit
Valley, is completely rural, with that area sharing more in common with the adjacent rural areas
of neighbouring Guysborough, Pictou and Colchester counties. Most economic activity in the
Musquodoboit Valley is based around agriculture, as it is the largest farming district in the
HRM.[52] Most coastal communities are based around the fishing industry. Forestry is prevalent in
this area as well. It is also prevalent in the Musquodoboit Valley, but it takes a backseat to the
more prevalent agricultural industry.[52]
Culture[edit]
Main article: Culture of Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is home to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the largest art gallery in Atlantic Canada.
Halifax is a major cultural centre within the Atlantic provinces. The city has maintained many of
its maritime and military traditions, while opening itself to a growing multicultural population. The
municipality's urban core also benefits from a large population of post-secondary students who
strongly influence the local cultural scene. Halifax has a number of art galleries, theatres and
museums, as well as most of the region's national-quality sports and entertainment facilities.
Halifax is also the home to many of the region's major cultural attractions, such as Halifax Pop
Explosion, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Khyber, the Maritime
Museum of the Atlantic and the Neptune Theatre. The region is noted for the strength of its
music scene and nightlife, especially in the central urban core. See List of musical groups from
Halifax, Nova Scotia for a partial list.
The Scotiabank Centre is the largest multi-purpose sporting arena in Atlantic Canada.
Halifax has various recreational areas, including ocean and lake beaches and rural and urban
parks. It has a host of organized community intramural sports at various facilities. Public schools
and post-secondary institutions offer varsity and intramural sports.
The Scotiabank Centre is largest arena in Atlantic Canada. It plays host to most of the major
sporting events and concerts that visit Halifax and is home to several semi-professional sport
franchises, including the Halifax Hurricanes of the NBL Canada and the Halifax Mooseheads of
the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo is held
here every year. The facility is connected to the Downtown Halifax Link, and directly to the World
Trade and Convention Centre.
The region has hosted several major sporting events, including the 2003 World Junior Hockey
Championship, 2003 Nokia Brier, the 2004 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships, the
2005 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, and 2007 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship. From
1984 to 2007, the region was home to the CIS Men's Basketball Championship; the tournament
was moved to Ottawa, Ontario, from 2008 to 2010 and returned to Halifax in 2011 and 2012.
The 2008 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships was held between May 2 and 18, 2008, in
Halifax and Quebec City.
Halifax was selected in 2006 as the host city in Canada's bid for the 2014 Commonwealth
Games but withdrew on March 8, 2007, well before the November 9, 2007 selection date, citing
financial uncertainties. In February 2011, the municipality hosted the 2011 Canada Winter
Games.
On May 26, 2013, the Halifax Mooseheads capped a 74-win season (going 74-7-3-1[58]) by
defeating the Portland Winterhawks 6-4 in the MasterCard Memorial Cup Final, earning their first
Memorial Cup in the process.[59]
Halifax is also home to several rugby clubs, the Halifax Rugby Football Club, Halifax Tars,
Dartmouth PigDogs, Riverlake Ramblers and the Eastern Shore Rugby Football Club. The
Halifax Gaels are the local Hurling and Gaelic Football team that compete in Canadian
GAA events.
The city is also home to HFX Wanderers FC, a professional soccer club that competes in
the Canadian Premier League.
Media[edit]
Main article: Media in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Headquarters for The Chronicle Herald, the only local daily newspaper in Halifax.
Halifax is the Atlantic region's central point for radio broadcast and press media. CBC
Television, CTV Television Network (CTV), and Global Television Network and other
broadcasters all have important regional television concentrators in HRM. CBC Radio has a
major regional studio and there are also regional hubs for Rogers Radio and various private
broadcast franchises, as well as a regional bureau for The Canadian Press/Broadcast News.
Halifax's print media is centred on its single daily newspaper, the broadsheet Chronicle Herald as
well as two free newspapers, the daily commuter-oriented edition of Metro International and the
free alternative arts weekly The Coast. Frank provides the municipality with a bi-weekly satirical
and gossip magazine.
The city has several online daily newspapers. allNovaScotia is a daily, subscriber-only outlet
which focuses on business and political news from across the province.[60] Local Xpress is a free
online newspaper covering local and national news, sports, business and entertainment created
by the journalists of the Chronicle Herald during their 2016-2017 strike. The Halifax
Examiner was founded by the former news editor of The Coast in 2014 and, like allNovaScotia,
is supported through subscriptions.
From 1974-2008, Halifax had a second daily newspaper, the tabloid The Daily News which still
publishes several neighbourhood weekly papers such as The Bedford-Sackville Weekly
News, The Halifax West-Clayton Park Weekly News and the Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Weekly
News. These weekly papers compete with The Chronicle-Herald's weekly Community
Heralds HRM West, HRM East, and HRM North.
Religion[edit]
Halifax is a religiously diverse city with such landmark religious institutions as the United
Rockingham Church, St. Andrew's United Church, the Ummah Mosque and Community Centre,
the Centre for Islamic Development, the Vedanta Ashram Society – Lokah Samastah Sukhino
Bhavantu, the Atlantic Theravada Buddhist Temple, the Beth Israel Synagogue, and the Shaar
Shalom Synagogue. Halifax also houses the Atlantic School of Theology for religious studies.
Demographics[edit]
In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Halifax Regional
Municipality recorded a population of 403,131 living in 173,324 of its 187,338 total private
dwellings, a change of 3.3% from its 2011 population of 390,086. With a land area of
5,490.35 km2 (2,119.84 sq mi), it had a population density of 73.4/km2 (190.2/sq mi) in 2016.[1]
In 2016, 15% of the population was 14 years old or younger, while 16% were 65 and older.
Historical populations
Year Pop. ±%
1851 39,914 —
Ethnic origins[edit]
St. Paul's Church is the oldest church in Halifax. In the 2016 census, more than 71 percent of residents in
Halifax claimed an affiliation with a Christian denomination.
Religious belief[edit]
Breakdown:[64]
71.49%: Christian
24.88%: none
1.96%: Muslim
0.41%: Buddhist
0.40%: Hindu
0.35%: Jewish
0.35%: Other Religions
0.009%: Sikh
0.001%: Aboriginal/Traditional
Economy[edit]
Main article: Economy of Halifax, Nova Scotia
The urban area of Halifax is a major economic centre in eastern Canada with a large
concentration of government services and private sector companies. Halifax serves as the
business, banking, government and cultural centre for the Maritime region. The largest
employment sectors in the city include trade (36,400 jobs), health care and social assistance
(31,800 jobs), professional services (19,000 jobs), education (17,400 jobs), and public
administration (15,800 jobs).[65] The Halifax economy is growing, with the Conference Board of
Canadapredicting strong 3.0% GDP growth for 2015.[65]
The Halifax Shipyards of Irving Shipbuilding. Irving is a major employer in Halifax.
Major employers and economic generators include the Department of National Defence, the Port
of Halifax, Irving Shipbuilding, the Nova Scotia Health Authority, IMP Group, Bell Aliant, Emera,
the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, government, banks, and universities.[66] The municipality
has a growing concentration of manufacturing industries and is becoming a major multi-modal
transportation hub through growth at the port, the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, and
improving rail and highway connections. Halifax is one of Canada's top four container ports in
terms of the volume of cargo handled.[67] A real estate boom in recent years has led to numerous
new property developments, including the gentrification of some former working-class areas.[65]
Agriculture, fishing, mining, forestry and natural gas extraction are major resource industries
found in the rural areas of the municipality. Halifax's largest agricultural district is in
the Musquodoboit Valley; the total number of farms in Halifax is 150, of which 110 are family-
owned. Fishing harbours are located along all coastal areas with some having an independent
harbour authority, such as the Sheet Harbour Industrial Port,[68] and others being managed as
small craft harbours under the federal Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Other resource industries in Halifax include the natural gas fields off the coast of Sable Island, as
well as clay, shale, gold, limestone, and gypsum extraction in rural areas of the mainland portion
of the municipality. Limestone is extracted in the Musquodoboit Valley and gold is extracted
in Moose River.
Government[edit]
Main article: Government in the Halifax Regional Municipality
Education[edit]
Halifax is home to Dalhousie University. Established in 1818, it is the oldest English-language post-
secondary institution in Canada.
Main article: Education in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax has a well-developed network of public and private schools, providing instruction from
grade primary to grade twelve; 136 public schools are administered by the Halifax Regional
School Board, while six public schools are administered by the Conseil scolaire acadien
provincial.[74] The city's fourteen private schools are operated independently.
The municipality is also home to the following post-secondary educational institutions: Dalhousie
University, Saint Mary's University, Mount Saint Vincent University, University of King's
College, Atlantic School of Theology, NSCAD University, and Nova Scotia Community College,
in addition to the Halifax campus of Université Sainte-Anne and several private institutions. The
largest of these, Dalhousie University, is Atlantic Canada's premier research-intensive university
ranking 7th in Maclean's and 228th in the world. This school is host to most of the province's
professional schools while other institutions focus primarily though not exclusively on
undergraduate education. The plethora of university and college students contributes to the
vibrant youth culture in the region, as well as making it a major centre for university education in
eastern Canada.
Transportation[edit]
Main article: Transportation in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax Harbour is a major port used by numerous shipping lines, administered by the Halifax
Port Authority. The Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard have major
installations along prominent sections of coastline in both Halifax and Dartmouth. The harbour is
also home to a public ferry service connecting downtown Halifax to two locations in Dartmouth.
Sheet Harbour is the other major port in the municipality and serves industrial users on
the Eastern Shore.
The Port of Halifax is North America's first inbound and last outbound shipping gateway to Europe.
The Halifax Port Authority's various shipping terminals constitute the eastern terminus
of Canadian National Railway's transcontinental network. Via Rail Canada provides overnight
passenger rail service from the Halifax Railway Station three days a week to Montreal with
the Ocean, a train equipped with sleeper cars that stops in major centres along the way, such as
Moncton. The Halifax Railway Station also serves as the terminus for Maritime Bus, which
serves destinations across the Maritimes.
Halifax Stanfield International Airport serves Halifax and most of the province, providing
scheduled flights to domestic and international destinations. The airport served 4,083,188
passengers in 2017, making it Canada's eighth busiest airport by passenger
traffic.[75] Shearwater, part of CFB Halifax, is the air base for maritime helicopters employed by
the Royal Canadian Navy and is located on the eastern side of Halifax Harbour.
The urban core is linked by the Angus L. Macdonald and A. Murray MacKay suspension bridges,
as well as the network of 100-series highways which function as expressways. The Armdale
traffic circle is an infamous choke point for vehicle movement in the western part of the urban
core, especially at rush hour.
Public transit is provided by Halifax Transit, which operates standard bus routes, regional
express bus routes, as well as the pedestrian-only Halifax-Dartmouth Ferry Service. Established
in 1752, the municipality's ferry service is the oldest continuously running salt water ferry service
in North America.[76]
Sister cities[edit]
Hakodate, Japan (1982). The cities chose to twin because they both have star
forts and are both maritime ports. Halifax has donated many fir trees to the annual Hakodate
Christmas Fantasy festival.[77][78]
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".[79]
Norfolk, Virginia, United States (2006). Norfolk was chosen because, like Halifax, its
economy "depends heavily on the presence of the Armed Forces, and both cities are very
proud of their military history".[80]
Notable Haligonians[edit]
Main article: List of people from the Halifax Regional Municipality
See also[edit]
Nova Scotia portal
Boston–Halifax relations
Halifax (electoral district), a federal electoral district since Confederation
Halifax Regional Search and Rescue
Halifax West, a federal electoral district since 1979
List of municipalities in Nova Scotia
Notes[edit]
1. ^ 1996 figures onwards are for Halifax Regional Municipality. Prior figures are for Halifax County.
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