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12 unusual facts about Halifax Regional Municipality


Arunah Shepherdson Abell

Arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia by ship from Europe, it traveled overland by pony to Annapolis, by steamship to Portland, Maine, and then by rail to Baltimore.

Dennis Byron

Sir Dennis has been President of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute in Halifax, Canada since the year 2000.

Francis Duncan

Duncan married Mary K Cogswell from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

G-Get Up and Dance

The song debuted on Halifax, Nova Scotia radio station 101.3 The Bounce in July 2009.

Herbert Butterworth

On 8 March 1929, he emigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the liner Regina and later worked in Calgary for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Information Morning

It is produced out of the studios of CBHA-FM at the CBC Radio Building in Halifax, Nova Scotia and is simulcast on all CBC Radio One transmitters on mainland Nova Scotia.

Jhonattan Vegas

In July 2012, Vegas was the runner-up finisher at the annual Telus World Skins Game to Paul Casey held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after having won the 2011 event in Banff, Alberta.

Lake Pohenegamook

The National Transcontinental Railway constructed its mainline from Winnipeg to Moncton along the western and southern shores in 1912 - today this line forms the mainline of CN Rail between Halifax and Montreal.

Maritime Noon

It is produced out of the studios of CBHA-FM in the CBC Radio Building at Halifax, Nova Scotia and is simulcast on all CBC Radio One transmitters in the Maritimes.

Ryan Hreljac

Ryan currently attends the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Siege of Boston

He withdrew the British forces, departing on March 17 (celebrated today as Evacuation Day) for Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Viona Harrer

One year later in Halifax, Canada, she had her first assignment in a world championship.


Adrienne Power

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Power was raised by and spent most of her life with her grandparents in East Jeddore.

Alfred Eick

At the 25 anniversary of Eick's sinking of the SS Point Pleasant Park, the surviving crew created a monument to those that died in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

APTN National News

In addition to its main newsroom in Winnipeg, APTN National News has news bureaus in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver, Iqaluit, Yellowknife and Whitehorse.

Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada

In 2012, the Transition House Association of Nova Scotia, the World YWCA, Family SOS, Silent Witness Nova Scotia, and Leave Out Violence partenered together to host Ghosts of Violence in Halifax.

Bev Oda

In 2006, Oda paid back $2,200 to taxpayers after the Liberals found that she had incurred nearly $5,500 in limousine rides at the 2006 Juno Awards in Halifax.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The CCPA is based in Ottawa but has branch offices in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Regina, Toronto and Halifax.

CCGS Edward Cornwallis

Named after Lieutenant General Edward Cornwallis, British Army officer and founder of Halifax, Nova Scotia (home port of this ship as well).

Choker Campbell

Choker has left behind a son and two daughters in Canada, two in London, one in Halifax.

Davnet

Davnet is the third studio album by Canadian singer Damhnait Doyle, released in February 2003 (see 2003 in music) on the Halifax indie label Turtlemusik.

Donald B. Beary

Mount Vernon was in the Atlantic Ocean as part of a convoy steaming from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, bound for Cape Town, South Africa, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, brought the United States into World War II on 7 December 1941.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

In addition to the original community of Sisters at Emmitsburg (now part of the Vincentian order), they are based in New York City, Cincinnati, Ohio, Halifax Regional Municipality, Convent Station, New Jersey, and Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Family Channel

While the Halifax-based company already distributes and produces a large library of children's television series (particularly through its 2012 purchase of Cookie Jar Group, which gave it ownership of the program libraries of Cinar and DIC Entertainment), they will mark DHX's first foray into television channel ownership.

Frederick George D'Utassy

He was appointed a professor of foreign languages at Dalhousie College in Halifax in 1855, as he spoke (at least) English, Hungarian, German, Spanish, French, and Italian.

Gibraltar Rock Provincial Park Reserve

Gibraltar Rock Provincial Park Reserve is a park and trail in Gibraltar in the Musquodoboit Valley in the Halifax Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia.

Halifax bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games

The Halifax bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games was a withdrawn bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games by Halifax Regional Municipality, the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Higher education in Nova Scotia

Oscar Wilde's much publicized lecture tour in 1882 stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he advocated the support of art education.

John Coape Sherbrooke

The financing of Dalhousie college, now Dalhousie University in Halifax had largely come from custom duties collected by Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, then lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia during the occupation of Castine, Maine during the War of 1812, investing GBP£7000 as the initial endowment and GBP£3000 reserved for the actual construction of the college.

Khyber Arts Society

The Khyber Arts Society operates the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art art gallery located in a Historical Property owned by the Halifax Regional Municipality at 1588 Barrington St (known as "The Khyber") in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Mike Clattenburg

A native of Cole Harbour, a suburb of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Clattenburg spent his years after high school as drummer in a Police-inspired rock band, The Spawning Grunions.

Monument to Canadian Aid Workers

The design was created by John Greer from Halifax, Nova Scotia who won the monument's national design competition in May 1999.

Naval Museum of Halifax

The Naval Museum of Halifax (Admiralty House) is a Canadian Forces museum and National Historic Site of Canada located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which collects, preserves and displays the artifacts and history of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Nova Scotia Gaelic Mod

Ferries are available from Bar Harbor, Maine to Halifax, Nova Scotia regularly during the summer months.

PiP Animation Services

In 1999, Pip partnered with imX communications Inc., and Funbag Animation Studios Inc. to announce two new animation production companies: Helix Animation Inc. in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Helix Digital Inc. in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Rudy Buttignol

In 1955 at the age of four, Buttignol and his mother boarded the MS Vulcania and immigrated to Canada via Pier 21 in Halifax.

SS SeaBreeze

The vessel had just been purchased by Cruise Ventures III, a subsidiary of New York-based DLJ Capital Funding and was traveling from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Charleston, South Carolina.

TeamBuy

TeamBuy currently operates in 20 Canadian cities including: Toronto, York Region, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Durham Region, Halifax, Mississauga, Calgary, Edmonton, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Winnipeg and others.

The Maritimes

Nova Scotia has a growing metropolitan area surrounding Halifax, but a contracting population in industrial Cape Breton, and several smaller centres in Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, and Pictou County.

University of Maine School of Law

There is a 1-semester option at Dalhousie Law School in Halifax, Nova Scotia; the University of New Brunswick, Canada; University College, Galway, Ireland; and the University of Buckingham, England.

War bride

These war brides to Canada emigrated mainly in 1946 in specially commissioned "war bride ships," like the Queen Mary, Letitia, or Mauretania, and the Île de France, landing at Pier 21 in Halifax.