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A mill exported lumber to the railway station in Paradise. In the late 1800s Roxbury was a logging community with a population of several dozens, but the community ended after the face of the South Mountain was destroyed by a forest fire in 1903 and the community income was lost. [4] Roxbury sign ca. 2006, part of stone wall in background
English place names in Canada is a list of Canadian place names which are named after places in England, carried over by English emigrants and explorers from the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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This article is a list of historic places in Halifax, Nova Scotia listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, all of which are designated as historic places either locally, provincially, federally or by more than one level of government. References to municipalities in the chart are to communities located within Halifax.
By September 1873, the Sisters moved into the newly built Motherhouse named Mount Saint Vincent, just outside Halifax. Sisters from the order first came to Boston, Massachusetts, in August 1887, called to staff a new school for girls at St. Patrick’s Parish in Roxbury. [10] In 1873, the order founded Mount St. Vincent Academy in Halifax, Nova ...
Halifax is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada.As of 2023, it is estimated that the population of the Halifax CMA was 518,711, [6] with 348,634 people in its urban area. [3]
Oldest fire station building remaining in Halifax; now a private residence 1877 Halifax Academy: 1649 Brunswick Street Two-and-a-half storey structure built as all-male high school; excellent example of Second Empire style. It was designed by Henry Busch, a proponent of the style, and prominent Halifax architect.
Government House of Nova Scotia is the official residence of the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, and is located in Halifax. [4] It stands in the provincial capital at 1451 Barrington Street; unlike other provincial Government Houses in Canada, this gives Nova Scotia's vice-regal residence a prominent urban setting, though it is still surrounded by gardens.