Pier 2 in Halifax, Nova Scotia was operational as an immigration shed from 1895 to 1915. 2.7 million immigrants entered Canada through the shed during...
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Pier 2 or Pier-2 may refer to: Pier 2 (Brooklyn) Pier 2, Halifax Pier 2, Seattle Pier-2 Art Center Dayi Pier-2 light rail station Penglai Pier-2 light...
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Pier 21 is a former ocean liner terminal and immigration shed from 1928 to 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nearly one million immigrants came to...
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kilometres or 160 miles) on relief trains. Halifax Fire Department's West Street Station 2 was the first to arrive at Pier 6 with the crew of Patricia, the first...
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The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (French: Musée canadien de l'immigration du Quai 21), in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is Canada's national museum...
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Halifax (Scottish-Gaelic: Halafacs or An Àrd-Bhaile) is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most...
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Headquarters Halifax Seaport Samuel Cunard Monument Halifax Farmers' Market NSCAD University (Port Campus) Garrison Brewery Cruise ship terminal Pier 21 (home...
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Halifax Port Authority facilities include: South End Container Terminal – Piers 36–42 (operated by PSA Halifax) Ocean Terminals – Piers 23–34 Halifax...
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Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, located in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Halifax largely...
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the rock to dump into Halifax Harbour, creating new deepwater shipping piers and dockside warehouses that were called the Halifax Ocean Terminal. The crews...
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Downtown Halifax is the primary central business district of the Municipality of Halifax. Located on the central-eastern portion of the Halifax Peninsula...
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Vince Coleman (train dispatcher) (category People from Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Richmond Street, only a few hundred feet from Pier 6. From there, trains were controlled on the mainline into Halifax. The line ran along the western shore of...
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constructed between Pier "B" and the yacht anchorage in the south end of Halifax. HMC Dockyard Halifax is located on the western side of Halifax Harbour at the...
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Citadel Hill (Fort George) (redirect from Halifax citadel)
History of Nova Scotia. Vol.2, p. 366 Piers, p. 16-17 Parks Canada Agency, Government of Canada (August 18, 2021). "Halifax Citadel National Historic Site...
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processing plant) located on Halifax Harbour's Eastern Passage. On 14 April 1967, a replacement plant at Pier 9 in Halifax was opened. The project was...
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terminal in Halifax’s South End. Construction of the railway cutting to access the new South End site began in 1913. Construction of the tracks, piers and terminal...
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The Westin Nova Scotian (redirect from Westin Hotel Halifax)
which included Pier 21, a trans-Atlantic Ocean liner passenger terminal. The hotel was directly connected by an interior walkway to the Halifax Railway Station...
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of Halifax, Nova Scotia was created on 1 April 1996, when the City of Dartmouth, the City of Halifax, the Town of Bedford, and the County of Halifax amalgamated...
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Africville Museum Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Naval Museum of Halifax Thomas McCulloch Museum Museum of Natural History...
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Neptune Theatre in Halifax. In 1970, he leased an abandoned building on Halifax's waterfront and converted it into a playhouse called the Pier One Theatre;...
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Defenceman, Drummondville Voltigeurs Pier-Olivier Roy, Defenceman, Victoriaville Tigres Mathieu Cataford, Halifax Mooseheads Justin Gill, Forward, Baie-Comeau...
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Walton-on-the-Naze (section Walton Pier)
has been moored afloat near the end of the pier since 1900. The unusual war memorial commemorates a Halifax crew who all died when they crashed on the...
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United States. The Halifax Port Authority operates two major container terminals, a medium-sized oil refinery, numerous general cargo piers and more specialized...
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Georges Island (Nova Scotia) (redirect from George's Island (Halifax))
largest island entirely within the harbour limits of Halifax Harbour located in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality. The Island is the location of...
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Hurricane Juan (redirect from The Major Hurricane of Halifax)
Downtown Halifax, erosion-control boulders the size of garbage cans were hurled from Halifax Harbour onto boardwalks and parking lots and piers. The Victoria...
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SS Mont-Blanc (category History of Halifax, Nova Scotia)
277. Halifax Explosion Memorial Bell Tower "Name-boards of one of the Lifeboats of the French munition Steamship", Mont Blanc of Rouen", Harry Piers Museum...
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1820, when the colony merged with Nova Scotia and the capital moved to Halifax. A rapid population expansion occurred just after the turn of the 20th...
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The South End is a neighbourhood within Halifax's urban area, in the Municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The areas south of South Street and...
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Black Nova Scotians (section Halifax)
century. Over 100,000 Halifax (3.8%) Over 10,000 Dartmouth North (9.7%) Whitney Pier (7.7%) Clayton Park (7.5%) Spryfield (7.2%) Cole Harbour (7%) Dartmouth...
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Naval Weapons Station Earle (category Piers in New Jersey)
County, New Jersey, United States. Its distinguishing feature is a 2.9-mile (4.7 km) pier in Sandy Hook Bay where ammunition can be loaded and unloaded from...
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