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Coverage map of the school board. The Halifax Regional School Board was created in 1996 with the amalgamation of three school boards that had jurisdiction over the former components of the Halifax Regional Municipality, which was created at the same time. [2] Board elections have taken place in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.
1958 – Halifax Grammar School established. 1960 – Halifax Stanfield International Airport built. 1969 – The late 1960s was a period of significant change and expansion of the city when surrounding areas of Halifax County were amalgamated into Halifax: Rockingham, Clayton Park, Fairview, Armdale, and Spryfield were all added in 1969.
1761: Halifax Treaties; 1782: Naval battle off Halifax; 1794: Prince Edward arrives; 1805: Halifax Impressment Riot; 1813: Capture of USS Chesapeake; 1814: Royal Acadian School established; 1832: Cornwallis Street Baptist Church established; 1856: Halifax School for the Deaf established; 1860: Halifax Volunteer Battalion established; 1861: CSS ...
The community of Halifax, Nova Scotia was created on 1 April 1996, when the City of Dartmouth, the City of Halifax, the Town of Bedford, and the County of Halifax amalgamated and formed the Halifax Regional Municipality. The former City of Halifax was dissolved, and transformed into the Community of Halifax within the municipality.
The Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) is responsible for administering 135 public schools, divided into elementary, junior high and high school levels, providing instruction from primary to grade 12. With over 57,000 students, the HRCE is the largest school board in Atlantic Canada. [1]
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For the 2010–11 school year, Halifax County Schools had a total population of 4,079 students and 191.89 teachers on a basis. This produced a student-teacher ratio of 15.52:1. [1] That same year, out of the total student population, the gender ratio was 51% male to 49% female.
On 15 June 2009, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a noted American civil rights activist, was presented with the book at the Nova Scotia Alliance of Black School Educators. Irvine Carvery, president of the Africville Genealogy Society and chair of the Halifax Regional School Board, made the presentation. [49]