The Halifax Waterfront boardwalk is a public footpath located on the harbour waterfront. The boardwalk’s southern terminus is at Halifax Seaport, an arts and culture district that also houses the cruise ship terminal, and stretches northward along the coast for approximately 3kms before it terminates in front of Casino Nova Scotia.
The Historic Properties are a collection of historical buildings on Halifax’s boardwalk that reflect the time period beginning with the War of 1812. The main contribution of Nova Scotia in the War of 1812 was privateers. Over 35 Nova Scotian Privateers seized more than 200 American merchant ships and their cargo. Merchants and traders bought them at auctions in Halifax and promptly resold them - in many cases, they even resold the Americans their own goods. Privateering was a risky business: almost a quarter of those who sailed from Nova Scotia’s ports were captured by Americans, burnt or lost. This area in Halifax has ten of the city’s oldest building.
The Halifax-Dartmouth Ferry is the oldest saltwater ferry in North America and the second oldest in the world (after the Mersey Ferry linking Liverpool and Birkenhead). Today the service links downtown Halifax with two locations, Alderney Landing and Woodside, both in Dartmouth. The official ferry service between Halifax and Dartmouth began in 1752 and has been running continually since then.
Georges Island in Halifax Harbour, is a glacial drumlin and the largest island entirely with the harbour. The island is the location of Fort Charlotte, named after King George’s wife Charlotte. Fort Charlotte was built in 1789 and the whole island is now a National Historic Site of Canada.
The Emigrant - created by sculptor Armando Barbon
The Volunteers (by sculptor Marlene Hilton Moore), created to honour the thousands of women and children who volunteered during the Second World War. The figures represent females of all ages: an older woman with her Mi’kmaw basket and knitting, a volunteer at an African-Canadian canteen and a young girl gathering salvage items for recycling.
The Naval Dockyard Clock was fabricated in London, England in 1767 and kept time in peace and war for generations of sailors and dockyard civilian workers from 1772 to 1993. The dockyard clock is the last remaining architectural feature of the original Halifax Naval Dockyard and one of the oldest turret clocks in Canada. In 1996 the Navy presented the clock to the Halifax Municipality for placement at this site where European settlers first landed in 1749.
Halifax Harbour is one of the largest and deepest ice-free natural harbours in the world.
Downtown Halifax skyline
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