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Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dartmouth ( ) is an urban community and former city located in the Halifax Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia, Canada. Dartmouth is located on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour. Dartmouth has been nicknamed the City of Lakes, after the large number of lakes located within its boundaries. On April 1, 1996, the provincial government amalgamated all the municipalities within the boundaries of Halifax County into a single-tier regional government named the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). Dartmouth and its neighbouring city of Halifax, the town of Bedford and the Municipality of the County of Halifax were dissolved. The city of Dartmouth forms part of the urban core of the larger regional municipality and is officially designated as part of the "capital district" by the Halifax Regional Municipality. At the time that the City of Dartmouth was dissolved, the provincial government altered its status to a separate community to Halifax; however, its status as part of the metrop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown Dartmouth
Downtown Dartmouth is the main central business district of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is part of the Capital District of the Province. Business and buildings Located in downtown Dartmouth are Alderney Landing, Alderney Gate which houses a branch of the Halifax Public Libraries and other municipal office space, the Alderney Landing market, gallery and theatre building, the 19-story highrise office building Queen Square (Dartmouth), Queen Square, as well as the main branches of the Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, CIBC. Also in the area there several condominium highrise buildings. The "Restaurant 73" building on 73 Alderney Drive is the oldest commercial brick building on the Dartmouth side of the harbour. Downtown Dartmouth also features historic landmarks such as the Quaker Whaler House, one of the oldest buildings in Halifax Regional Municipality (open to the public seasonally) and Ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keystone Village
Keystone or key-stone or ''variation'', may refer to: * Keystone (architecture), a central stone or other piece at the apex of an arch or vault * Keystone (cask), a fitting used in ale casks Business * Keystone Law, a full-service law firm * Digital Keystone, a developer of digital entertainment software * Keystone Aircraft Corporation * Keystone Bridge Company, an American bridge building company * Keystone (beer brand) * Keystone Camera Company * Keystone (gasoline automobile) * Keystone (steam automobile) * Keystone Pipeline, a crude oil pipeline * Keystone-SDA/Keystone-ATS, a Swiss press agency * Keystone View Company, a US photo agency * Keystone (Berkeley, California), a defunct music club Entertainment * ''Keystone'' (video game), part of the Xbox Live Arcade title ''Fable 2 Pub Games'' * Keystone (band), led by jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas ** ''Keystone'' (album), a 2005 album by the band * Keystone Cops, a silent movie series * ''Keystone Kapers'', a classic Atari g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodside, Nova Scotia
Woodside is an unincorporated middle income urban locality of Dartmouth, within the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. The community is divided into North Woodside and South Woodside. Woodside is home to two hospitals: the Dartmouth General Hospital and the Nova Scotia Hospital. History Woodside originally referred to the rural estate of John E. Fairbanks in 1830. Around this time, Henry Mott ran a brickyard and a chocolate factory in the area. The area began to expand in 1858 with the construction of the Nova Scotia Hospital, and then again in 1884 following the construction of a sugar refinery. In 1917, the Imperial Oil Refinery was built, leading to further growth. In 1921, Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church and St. Alban's Anglican Church were built on hospital land. The following year, Woodside-Imperoyal Presbyterian Church was established. Because the local economy was driven by the refineries, Woodside was predominantly a working class community. There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodlawn, Nova Scotia
Woodlawn is an area of eastern Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia that is mainly residential and retail. It is situated within an area with Highway 111 on the west, Portland Street ( Route 207) on the east and Main Street ( Trunk 7) on the North side. The first three digits of the postal code are B2W. History Settlement in the Woodlawn area began as early as 1754 when the road between the Dartmouth ferry and the community of Lawrencetown was under construction. Some of the first settlers were United Empire Loyalists who moved to Nova Scotia after the American Revolution. The area initially got its name from the Woodlawn Cemetery, established by Ebenezer Allen in the late 1700s for local residents. Among those buried in the graveyard are Jane and Margaret Meagher, otherwise known as the "Babes in the Woods", who disappeared from their home in 1842. After an exhaustive search of the surrounding woods, they were found dead several days later a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Heights, Nova Scotia
Wallis Heights is a Canadian urban neighbourhood in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality. Wallis Heights is situated immediately north of Shannon Hill at the Northeastern end of the Bedford Basin, around the northern side of the A. Murray MacKay Bridge, also known as 'the new bridge', in the former city of Dartmouth. It was established by the Department of National Defence in the 1950s to house Royal Canadian Navy personnel attached to the Halifax naval base. The community is named after Provo Wallis. Defence cutbacks to the Canadian Forces budget in the mid-1990s coupled with rising real estate maintenance costs saw Wallis Heights sold to a private developer. Some units have been renovated and the entire neighbourhood has been resettled by civilians. Transportation Wallis Heights is served by a public bus route, Halifax Transit Halifax Transit is a Canadian public transport service operating buses and ferries in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Founded as Metro Transit in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tufts Cove, Nova Scotia
Tufts Cove is an urban neighbourhood in the community of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour in the North End of Dartmouth. The neighbourhood boundaries of Tufts Cove are approximately from Albro Lake Road in the south to Highway 111 in the north, and from Victoria Road in the east with the harbour to the west. History The cove was the site of a Mi'kmaq community called Turtle Grove, first recorded in the 18th century and likely inhabited for generations. A painting from the 1790s shows a Mi'kmaq family at the cove, while an oil painting from around 1837 by William Eager shows a Mi'kmaq encampment. A notable resident in later years was the Mi'kmaw leader and ethnologist Jerry Lonecloud. The cove was named for Gersham Tufts, who came to Dartmouth in 1749 with Edward Cornwallis. Shortly after arriving, he received a Crown land grant to settle the area. Tufts was a carpenter by trade who resided in Halifax, while his children s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southdale, Nova Scotia
Southdale is a neighbourhood located between the neighbourhoods of Woodside and Manor Park in the community of Dartmouth, in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. The primary street A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, ... is Portland Street which forms part of Route 207. A small lake called Maynard Lake is located within the neighbourhood . Schools * Dartmouth South Academy Communities in Halifax, Nova Scotia Dartmouth, Nova Scotia {{HalifaxNS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Park, Nova Scotia
Shannon Park is an urban neighbourhood and former national defence site in the north end of Dartmouth on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is immediately south of the A. Murray MacKay Bridge in the community of Dartmouth. It straddles Highway 111, a CN Rail freight line, and Halifax Harbour. It is bordered on the south by Tuft's Cove. History Shannon Park, along with the adjacent former national defence site of Wallis Heights, housed the families of personnel serving with the Royal Canadian Navy. It was built in the 1950s to remedy the shortage of housing which plagued sailors and their families in Halifax during World War Two. The community was named after ''HMS Shannon'', the Halifax-based frigate which won a notable victory in the War of 1812. With defence cutbacks reducing the number of personnel serving in the navy and expanded housing available on the civilian market, Shannon Park and Wallis He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Hills, Nova Scotia
Portland Hills is a subdivision in Dartmouth Nova Scotia that is part of the Halifax Regional Municipality. It is located east of Morris Lake and Portland Estates. It formed in 2001-2008 as an extension of the community of Portland Estates along Portland Street ( Route 207). The neighbourhood is home to the Portland Hills Centre, which includes Irish themed pubFinbars Running through Portland Hills is Birches Park, which includes the Portland Hills Greenway 2.2 kilometre trail. Geography Portland Hills is about from Downtown Dartmouth, and is approximately in landmass. Transportation Portland Hills Terminal, at the corner of Portland Street and Portland Hills Drive, is a hub for Halifax Transit bus services. Schools * Elementary (grades primary to 6) - Portland Estates Elementary School * Junior High (grades 7-9) -- Ellenvale Junior High School * High Schools (grades 10-12) ** English, with optional International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma program - Prince Andrew High Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Estates, Nova Scotia
Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeastern United States * Isle of Portland, England, a tied island in the English Channel Portland may also refer to: Places and establishments Australia *Cape Portland, Tasmania, a cape on the north-eastern tip of Tasmania *Portland, New South Wales, a town with the first Australian cement works *Portland, Victoria, a regional city and port *City of Portland (Victoria), a former local government area (LGA) Canada * Port Lands, Toronto, Ontario (sometimes mistakenly spelled "Portlands"), the eastern part of the Toronto waterfront *Portland Island (British Columbia), a small island off the coast of Vancouver island *Portland Inlet, an inlet between southeastern Alaska and British Columbia **Portland Canal, an arm of Portland Inlet *Portland E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Wallace, Nova Scotia
Port Wallace is an urban locality in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located on the northeastern edge of the community of Dartmouth and lies midway between Lake Micmac and Lake Charles. Its main street is Route 318, with portions being named Waverley Road and Braemar Drive. Shubie Park is a local municipal park which preserves part of the historic Shubenacadie Canal between the two lakes. History Port Wallace was established in 1861 and is named after the Honourable Michael Wallace, a colonial administrator and former President of the Shubenacadie Canal Company. The canal's eventual completion in 1861 resulted in the present-day community being named after Wallace, who died in 1831 at the time of the canal company's bankruptcy. His legacy continues today with an elementary school in the community being named after him. After Wallace's death, the name of the community was erroneously changed from Port Wallace to Port Wallis, after Admiral Provo Wallis. The new name was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nantucket, Nova Scotia
Nantucket is an upper middle income residential neighborhood in the Woodlawn area in the community of Dartmouth within the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng .... The area was built in early 1970s across Portland Street ( Route 207) from Portland Estates. It was named after the Nantucket Whaling Company which was once situated on Halifax Harbour. Communities in Halifax, Nova Scotia Dartmouth, Nova Scotia {{HalifaxNS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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