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The University of King's College is a public liberal arts university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [5] Established in 1789, it is the oldest chartered university in Canada , and the oldest English-speaking university in the Commonwealth outside the United Kingdom . [ 6 ]
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]
Between 2006 and 2011, twenty-four CAs experienced population decline. The fifteen CAs that experienced the greatest population decline were located in British Columbia (two), Manitoba (one), New Brunswick (one), Nova Scotia (three), Ontario (four) and Quebec (four).
In 1995, the Nova Scotia Council on Higher Education (NSCHE) began a process to review and recommend a new Funding Formula for Nova Scotia's universities. This process attempted to acknowledge considerable changes in enrolment and new programs at several universities, and the new formula was approved by government for fiscal 1998–99.
The University of New Brunswick has a satellite health sciences campus in Moncton offering degree in nursing. The Moncton campus of the New Brunswick Community College has 1,600 full-time students and also hundreds of part-time students. The Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick offers training in trades and technologies.
Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus in Saint John, New Brunswick. Dalhousie offers over 200 degree programs in 13 undergraduate, graduate, and professional faculties. [7]
The first university to be established in the Dominions of the British Empire; the original site of the oldest university in what was to become Canada (campus now located in Halifax) Knaut-Rhuland House [55] 1793 (completed) 2002 Lunenburg
The new Halifax Central Library on the corner of Spring Garden Road and Queen Street forms a new locus of activity on a site that had previously been a surface parking lot for over five decades. In 2021 the Halifax Regional Municipality undertook a major upgrade of the Street from South Park to Queen street, widening sidewalks and burying ...