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3 unusual facts about General Service Area


Amalgamation of the Halifax Regional Municipality

In 1996 the provincial government amalgamated all municipal governments within Halifax County to create HRM, a regional municipality comprising approximately 200 individual communities or placenames for civic addressing grouped into eighteen planning areas for zoning purposes.

General Service Area

The Government of Nova Scotia designates General Service Areas by means of the Department of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations.

General Service Area is a term used by the Canadian province of Nova Scotia to describe the boundaries of areas that are communities or place names in Nova Scotia.



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