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Although the commission's present structure has existed since 1945, its creation was rooted to earlier events. The water system began in 1844 with the formation of the Halifax Water Company, a private firm under contract to the City of Halifax who hired the engineer Charles Fairbanks to survey the lakes around the city and New York engineer John Jarvis to design the system. [1]
The Halifax Wastewater Treatment Facility north of Downtown Halifax. Harbour Solutions is a Canadian public infrastructure project in Halifax, Nova Scotia.. The CAD $333 million project comprised the construction of three sewage treatment plants and connected various sewage pipe networks with lift stations to treat all sanitary sewage in Halifax and Dartmouth. [1]
The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (NSUARB) is the independent tribunal and regulating arm of the Government of Nova Scotia responsible for public utilities in the province. NSUARB is governed under the Utility and Review Board Act , and reports directly to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly , currently through the Minister of Finance.
A survey conducted in 2002 by the Canadian Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever breed club to discover which diseases and conditions occur in the Toller population, involving owners of 1180 dogs worldwide, showed 73% reported in excellent health and a total of 7.5% reporting poor or bad health. 141 dogs (12%) were reported as deceased with the ...
The wildfire is the largest recorded in the history of Nova Scotia. [29] [30] Efforts to stop the fire included the use of American water bombers and additional firefighters from the U.S. and Costa Rica. [31] On June 7, officials announced it was successfully contained. [32] As of June 7, the fire had destroyed 60 residences and 150 other ...
Distribution of Nova Scotia's 49 municipalities by municipal status type; villages are not shown as they are subdivisions of county or district municipalities. The Canadian province of Nova Scotia is divided into 49 municipalities, of which there are three types: regional (4), town (25), and county or district municipality (20). [1]
Nova Scotia also had what was known as the Treasure Trove Act (“TTA”), which was the only one of its kind within North America, and allowed those with a license to seek and remove treasure found within a certain area. [28] “Treasure” was considered to be “precious stones or metals in a state other than their natural state”. [29]