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Barnet was elected a municipal councillor for Halifax County, Nova Scotia in 1993, and served on Halifax Regional Council following the formation of the Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996. [2] He entered provincial politics in the 1999 election , defeating New Democrat incumbent Rosemary Godin in the Sackville-Beaver Bank riding. [ 3 ]
Halifax, formally known as the Halifax Regional Municipality, is located in Nova Scotia, Canada.The municipality is governed by a mayor (elected at large) and a sixteen-person Regional Council, who are elected by geographic district; municipal elections occur every leap year.
Halifax City Hall is the home of municipal government in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Designed by architect Edward Elliot, and constructed for the City of Halifax between 1887 and 1890, it is one of the oldest and largest public buildings in Nova Scotia. The property was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1997.
The RBC Waterside Centre is a commercial development in the downtown core of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada built by local real estate developer Armour Group.The project involves demolishing six heritage buildings and replacing them with a nine storey retail and office building, clad at ground level with the reconstructed facades of most of the former heritage buildings.
The Royal Centre was built in 1960 and was the regional head office of the Royal Bank of Canada (until it moved to the RBC Waterside Centre in 2014), [citation needed] located on 5161 George Street between Granville and Hollis Streets across from the Provincial Legislature Building. [1]
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 house on a large landscaped property; a noted example of a Gothic Revival villa in Canada 1860 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia: 1723 Hollis Street Built to house Nova Scotia's pre-Confederation Post Office, Customs House and Railway Department. 1869 (completed) Fort Charlotte: Halifax Harbour
Green resigned his post as provincial treasurer in 1768, citing poor health. Benjamin Greene, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia), only known gravestone of Cornwallis' Nova Scotia Council Governor Green's residence (built 1749). (Located on the site of Province House, which still is furnished with his Nova Scotia Council table)