General Information

-Introduction

-Physical Landscape

-MAPS!!

-Quick Facts

 

History of Halifax

-Halifax: 1749-1917

-The Halifax Disaster

 

City Structure

-residential patterns

-elite diffusion

-modern planning issues

-Africville

 

Modern Day Halifax

-demographic information

-current culture

 

^external links

^information sources

^ALL the maps!

^Macalester College Geography Department

 

Information and Image Sourceskids/educ. N.S. archives

 

Literary Sources

>Bourne, Larry S. and David Ley. The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.

>Clairmont, Donald H. and Dennis Magill. Africville: The Life And Death of a Canadian Black Community. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1974.

>Halifax Regional Municipality. "The Greater Halifax Visitor Guide 2001". Halifax, 2001.

>Nader, George A. Cities of Canada. Volume 1. Macmillan of Canada, 1975.

Internet Sources

>Atlantic Planners Institute

-http://www.atlanticplanners.org/whatnew/books/hfxdttoc.htm

-http://www.atlanticplanners.org/whatnew/reports/richmond/hydr_toc.htm

 

> Census Statistics for Halifax, 1996

-http://www.statcan.ca/english/census96/list.htm

 

>Destination: Nova Scotia

-http://www.destination-ns.com/

 

>Encyclopedia Britannica Online

-http://eb.com:180/bol/topic?eu=119758&sctn=1&pm=1

-http://eb.com:180/bol/topic?eu=119757&sctn=11&pm=1

 

> Halifax Regional Municipality

-http://www.halifaxinfo.com/

-http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/community/history.html

-http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/community/explode.html

-http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/community/fact1.html

-http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/community/images/hrmcmap.gif

-http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/planning/

-http://millennium.ns.sympatico.ca/histories.html

 

>Halifax WorldWeb Travel Guide

-http://halifax.worldweb.com/

-http://www.halifax.worldweb.com/PhotoGallery/

 

>Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management

-http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtualx/halifax/