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The Saint Mary's Campus is part of the Collins Estate as is Gorsebrook Field to its immediate north. This has both Inglis Street (Saint Francis School and Gorsebrook School. With its eastern boundary at North Park, Ahern, Bell Road, and South Park, and Robie Street in to the west. During the 1800s, the city expanded in all directions, and some ...
Norman Park State School is a government primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 68–88 Agnew Street ( 28] [8] [29] In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 457 students with 36 teachers (29 full-time equivalent) and 16 non-teaching staff (11 full-time equivalent). [30]
Most communities of the Halifax Regional Municipality are marked with Welcome to our Community signs . Halifax Regional Municipality has many different communities that vary from rural to urban . With a land area of 5,475.57 km 2 (2,114.13 sq mi), [ 1 ] there are more-than 200 communities-and-neighbourhoods within its boundaries.
A 1749 sketch of Halifax from the top of a masthead Mi'kmaw Women Selling Baskets, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by Mary R. McKie, c. 1845. The Halifax area has been territory of the Miꞌkmaq since time immemorial. Before contact they called the area around the Halifax Harbour Jipugtug (anglicised as "Chebucto"), meaning Great Harbour.
The name Spryfield is also sometimes used to refer to the general area of Halifax's South Mainland, which includes a number of communities along the Herring Cove and Purcell's Cove Roads. The availability of land suitable for farming, and the relative close proximity to the Halifax market attracted the European settlers.
The area surrounds Halifax Harbour and its main centres are Bedford, Dartmouth, and Halifax (and their respective environs). Between the 2016 Canadian Census and the 2021 Canadian Census, the built-up area of Halifax grew by 357 hectares (3.57 km 2) from 23,472 hectares (234.72 km 2) in 2016 [61] to 23,829 hectares (238.29 km 2) in 2021. [60]
The CN Dartmouth Subdivision passes through the area, from which three branch lines extend to different parts of the industrial park. The area is adjacent to several major provincial highways, including Highway 107, Highway 111, and Highway 118. Public transit service is provided by Halifax Transit, operated by the municipal government. The ...
Hydrostone is a neighbourhood in the North End of the Halifax Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.It consists of ten short parallel streets and is bordered by Duffus Street to the north, Young Street to the south, Isleville Street to the west and Novalea Drive to the east.